This lesson contains 12 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.
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Slide 1 - Slide
What do you know about Haiku?
Slide 2 - Mind map
What is Haiku?
A form of Japanese poetry made of short, unrhymed lines that evoke natural imagery.
The most common format is a three-line poem with a five-seven-five syllable pattern.
Slide 3 - Slide
Slide 4 - Video
What do you notice about the subject matter of the Haikus shown in the video?
Slide 5 - Open question
A confused haiku
seeking help---
identity crisis
Kash Poet 2012
Slide 6 - Slide
A flash of brightness,
transient and untouchable,
White is a gypsy.
Brittany Reynolds 2012
Slide 7 - Slide
Some Inspiration...
I am still a boy
I may look twenty one but,
I have much to learn
Benjamin Alexander 2013
Slide 8 - Slide
Writing a Haiku
Use three lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables;
Determine your subject matter. Pay attention to small details around you: notice things like birds or leaves outside; the way the air feels; how you are feeling.
Many haiku are about very simple natural elements of day-to-day life.
Use short phrases that evoke strong images, e.g., fallen leaves for autumn or daffodils for spring.
Slide 9 - Slide
Social Identity
Take out your 'Social Identity Wheel' and have a look at all of the different aspects of your identity.
Ask yourself: What aspect of my social identity can be used for the haiku?
Slide 10 - Slide
Write Your Haiku
Last lesson we looked at the theme of identity. Do the following:
Write a haiku using this theme;
Use your ideas from your Social Identity Wheel;
Try to use imagery from nature to bring across your ideas.
Finished?
Write your haiku in a Word document with your name on it;
