Cambridge hungry for Haiku

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

POETRY 

Some questions about poetry 

What is poetry?

Do you ever read poetry? 

Have you ever written any poetry?

Does poetry have to rhyme? 

On the next three slides, there are some examples. Read them thoroughly as I will ask some questions about them later. 

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

   So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Your hair is winter fire

January embers

My heart burns there, too.

Think for a minute... 

- What did you notice about each of these poems? 

- Which one is the oldest, do you think? 

- Which one appealed to you the most? Why? 

- Which one was a haiku? 

Worksheet 

I'm going to give you a worksheet each. Start by reading the poem about the bus and answer the questions in part 1

Ready? Count the syllables in each line of the poem. Then read through the information in part 3 while I hand out the jumbled up haikus 

Alone I cling to

The freezing mountain and see

White cloud below me 

All done without thought
Dogs taste blood. A fox is caught.
And they call it sport? 

Time to write your own 

Part one: in your group, choose a theme

Part two: on your own, write down some words that come to mind when you think about the theme

Part three: get back together with your group. With the input from each member, write your own haiku. Remember the rules: 5 syllables - 7 syllables - 5 syllables, one image.  

Time to hear some haiku