1. Literacy Focus:  Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text.
Write your name on a scrap sheet of paper and put it in the clear bowl on my desk.
We will first hear some awesome performance poetry from yesterday’s absentees.
Then, HAIKU DAY!!!!

2. Haiku Poetry

3. Haiku is also called nature or seasonal haiku.

4. Haiku is usually written in the present tense and focuses on nature (seasons).

5. Haiku Poetry Definition 1
An unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17 syllables in all.
The 5/7/5 rule was made up for school children to understand and learn this type of poetry.

6. Haiku Poetry Definition 2
Made of three lines of poetry, 17 syllables or LESS.
An ideal haiku should be short/long/short

7. Haiku Poetry
Helpful Hints Haiku is generally not written in one long run on sentence. It is generally written in two parts. You have a fragment on the first or the last line, then you have the body of the haiku.

8. Cast shimmering reflections
Haiku Poetry
Pink cherry blossoms
Cast shimmering reflections
On seas of Japan

9. letters of the alphabet
Haiku Poetry
Warm soup in a bowl
letters of the alphabet
hang on the teaspoon

10. HAIKU POETRY On the following slides are pictures of seasons.
Now it is your turn to write some Haiku poetry.
In your journal, write a Haiku poem for each scene.

13. Now for some fun…
Write a Valentine’s Haiku for the name you drew

14. Write a haiku about a teacher

15. Write a haiku about your LEAST favorite subject (yes, it’s okay if it’s English!)

16. Write a haiku about your crush. (Can be a celebrity
Write a haiku about your crush! (Can be a celebrity! Unless it’s a celebrity, please no names!

17. Write a haiku about your favorite fictional character

18. Write a haiku about Halloween (you know…cause it’s Valentine’s day…)