Haiku: From Sound to Meaning

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Description

This unit focuses on haiku poetry and its form, content, and history and provides opportunities to speak, listen to, write, and read this form of poetry. Students usually enjoy the haiku form because it has a set number of syllables in each line and provides a challenge as they attempt to encompass their ideas and create images within the given formula. The use of imagery in traditional haiku encourages students to use their imaginations and senses to interpret and create.

Major Integrated Resource (MIR)

• Cornerstones 6 (WCP)
  • Scripts to Act Out
    Fantastic Fiction
• Nelson Language Arts (WCP)
  • Media Messages

• Wakan, Naomi. - Haiku : one breath poetry
  • written and illustrated by Naomi Wakan. --
    Victoria, B.C. : Pacific-Rim, c1993.
    vii, 71 p. : ill.
• RN 1-68513.

Web Resources

• Sample Unit Framework: Poetry Study - from Sask.Learning comes a framework for studying poetry.
• Sample Poetry Study Unit Outline Haiku: From Sound to Meaning - From Sask.Learning comes this sample unit plan. This unit focuses on haiku poetry and its form, content, and history and provides opportunities to speak, listen to, write, and read this form of poetry.
• Haiku Theme Page - collections of useful Internet educational resources which supplement the study of haiku
• Haiku Straw Painting - Learn the form of haiku poetry and Japanese brush painting at the same time with this lesson plan. Students will be creating their own ink and brush paintings in order to illustrate their written haikus.
• Haiku: Teaching Japanese Poetry Writing - Haiku can be a way through which children can express their inner souls, a window through which one can see a child's world.
• Haiku - Students will write individual and group haiku.

Web Quests

• Do You Haiku? - Students work together to create an authentic pocket journal of Haiku poetry and articles. There are two phases to this project. Phase one is research, phase two is the creation of the journal, and phase three is the creation of the PowerPoint presentation.

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