1. Poetry 8 Mr. Dunne 12 th November

3.  To learn what a Haiku is.  To create our own Haiku poems.

4. EXAMPLES Snow melts. Suddenly, the village is full of children. Frog sunning on lily pad as dragonfly darts by. Thrapp! Sudden spring storm-- a family of ducks paddles around the deserted lake. A student answers. A teacher buys a pen to correct the question. I kill an ant and realize my three children have been watching.

5. DEFINITION  A haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that describes an image very quickly.

6. DEFINITION  There are three lines,  using very few words,  like this.

7. DEFINITION  The first line shows one thing,  the second line shows another thing  and the third line connects them.

8. EXAMPLES Snow melts. Suddenly, the village is full of children. Frog sunning on lily pad as dragonfly darts by. Thrapp! Sudden spring storm-- a family of ducks paddles around the deserted lake. A student answers. A teacher buys a pen to correct the question. I kill an ant and realize my three children have been watching.

9. YOU NEED:  An image of two things somehow connected.  Think of a wise old man saying these poems to explain images.  Have fun and be creative

10. NATURE Create some Haiku about nature: animals, trees, etc. Thrown out some ideas for images.

13. SCHOOL Create some Haiku about school: Discuss school images with the person beside you.

16. WHAT OTHER IMAGES COULD WE USE?

17. HOMEWORK  Find an image – a photo, a google picture, if you want to draw an image or use one of your schoolbooks.  Write a Haiku describing it.  Next week bring in that image and the Haiku