1. Haiku Poems

2. Haiku Haiku poems are Japanese and contain only 3 lines.
The poems are used to paint a picture in the readers mind.
Each line has a certain number of syllables.

3. What are Syllables Syllables are units of sound.
Syllables usually contain a vowel and accompanying consonants. Sometimes syllables are referred to as the 'beats' of spoken language.
Example: free (1 syllable)
eating (2 syllables….eat/ing)
worrying (3 syllables…wor/ry/ing)

4. Lets Try It How many syllables are in you partners name?
How many syllables are in the following words?
Syllable
Information
Poetry
Rhythm

5. Haiku The first line of every haiku has 5 syllables
The second contains 7 syllables.
The final line contains 5 syllables.
This forms a 5,7,5 pattern.
Haikus are usually about nature.

6. Summer’s gone 5 7 5 The leaves fell slowly To the unforgiving ground
Too soon – summer’s gone!
Too/soon/sum/mer’s/gone!

7. Green and speckled legs
Hops on logs and lily-pads
Splash in cool water

8. In a pouch I grow
On a southern continent
Strange creatures I know.

9. Limericks A limerick is a kind of a witty, humorous, or nonsense poem
In five-line or meter with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA).
The form can be found in England in the early years of the 18th century
It was popularized by Edward Lear in the 19th century.
A limerick is usually used in English folk poetry

10. Rhyme Scheme- AABBA
A flea and a fly in a flue Were caught, so what could they do? Said the fly, "Let us flee." "Let us fly," said the flea. So they flew through a flaw in the flu

11. LIMERICK The limerick packs laughs anatomical
Into space that is quite economical.
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean -
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.

12. Limerick
There was a Young Lady of Portugal, Whose ideas were excessively nautical*
She climbed up a tree,
To examine the sea,
But declared she would never leave Portugal.
* excessively nautical – very sensitive

13. There once was a pauper* named_______
The Rhythm is just as important in a limerick as the rhyme. Try completing the limerick.
There once was a pauper* named_______
Who accidentally broke her _______.
She slipped on the ______.
Not once, but thrice
Take no pity* on her, __________.
*pauper – very poor person
*pity – to feel sorry

14. Examples. DO NOT COPY
Haiku 1. Pink cherry blossoms Cast shimmering reflections On seas of Japan . 2. Green and speckled legs, Hop on logs and lily pads Splash in cool water.
Limerick The Man From Aruba There once was a man from Aruba, Whose favorite hobby was scuba. Every day he would wish, He could spear a big fish. But settled instead for canned tuna.

16. NOW MAKE YOUR OWN! Pick an animal.
Write a haiku about the animal you picked.
Pick a season (Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring)
Write a Haiku about the season you picked.