1. Teacher Guide This lesson is designed to teach kids to ask a critical thinking question that you can’t just put into a search box to solve. To do that, we encourage them with smaller questions that search can help them answer. Make sure that you read the notes for each slide: they not only give you teaching tips but also provide answers and hints so you can help the kids if they are having trouble. Remember, you can always send feedback to the Bing in the Classroom team at BingInTheClassroom@Microsoft.com. You can learn more about the program at bing.com/classroom and follow the daily lessons on the Microsoft Educator Network. BingInTheClassroom@Microsoft.combing.com/classroomMicrosoft Educator Network Want to extend today’s lesson? Consider using Skype in the Classroom to arrange for your class to chat with another class in today’s location, take a Skype lesson on today’s topic, or invite a guest speaker to expand on today’s subject. And if you are using Windows 8, the panoramas in the MSN Travel App are great teaching tools. We have thousands of other education apps available on Windows here. Skype in the Classroom another class take a Skype lesson invite a guest speaker MSN Travel App here Nell Bang-Jensen is a teacher and theater artist living in Philadelphia, PA. Her passion for arts education has led her to a variety of roles including developing curriculum for Philadelphia Young Playwrights and teaching at numerous theaters and schools around the city. She works with playwrights from ages four to ninety on developing new work and is especially interested in alternative literacies and theater for social change. A graduate of Swarthmore College, she currently works in the Artistic Department of the Wilma Theater and, in addition to teaching, is a freelance actor and dramaturg. In 2011, Nell was named a Thomas J. Watson Fellow and spent her fellowship year traveling to seven countries studying how people get their names. This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: Reading—Literature CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.5CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.5 Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.4CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.

2. Cherry Blossoms are a frequent subject of Japanese haikus. Can you create a haiku about something that you find beautiful? © Sean Pavone/Alamy

3. More than 30,000 cherry trees grace the slopes of Mount Yoshino in Japan. The plantings were designed so that a walk up the mountain, especially in spring and autumn, gradually reveals layers of color, as the changing altitude affects the timing of blooms in the spring and the color of leaves in the fall. Mount Yoshino, along with Mounts Koya and Kumano are part of a designated UNESCO Heritage Site. The three peaks are part of a Shinto pilgrimage route in the Nara Prefecture. There’s even a Shinto temple, Mikumari, on Yoshino. Cherry Blossoms are a frequent subject of Japanese haikus. Can you create a haiku about something that you find beautiful?

4. 1 Web Search What is a haiku? Where does the idea of a haiku come from? When did it develop? 2 Web Search A “kiru” is said to be the essence of a haiku. What does this mean? What is an example of this? 3 Web Search What are most haikus about? 4 Web Search What are the rules for the number of syllables that the words in a haiku follow? 5 Web Search/Thi nking Find examples of three different haikus online. What do you notice that they have in common? Cherry Blossoms are a frequent subject of Japanese haikus. Can you create a haiku about something that you find beautiful?

5. 5 Minutes Cherry Blossoms are a frequent subject of Japanese haikus. Can you create a haiku about something that you find beautiful?

6. 1 Web Search What is a haiku? Where does the idea of a haiku come from? When did it develop? 2 Web Search A “kiru” is said to be the essence of a haiku. What does this mean? What is an example of this? 3 Web Search What are most haikus about? 4 Web Search What are the rules for the number of syllables that the words in a haiku follow? 5 Web Search/Thi nking Find examples of three different haikus online. What do you notice that they have in common? Cherry Blossoms are a frequent subject of Japanese haikus. Can you create a haiku about something that you find beautiful?

7. 1 Web Search What is a haiku? Where does the idea of a haiku come from? When did it develop? Cherry Blossoms are a frequent subject of Japanese haikus. Can you create a haiku about something that you find beautiful?

8. 2 Web Search A “kiru” is said to be the essence of a haiku. What does this mean? What is an example of this? Cherry Blossoms are a frequent subject of Japanese haikus. Can you create a haiku about something that you find beautiful?

9. 3 Web Search What are most haikus about? Cherry Blossoms are a frequent subject of Japanese haikus. Can you create a haiku about something that you find beautiful?

10. 4 Web Search What are the rules for the number of syllables that the words in a haiku follow? Cherry Blossoms are a frequent subject of Japanese haikus. Can you create a haiku about something that you find beautiful?

11. 5 Web Search/Thi nking Find examples of three different haikus online. What do you notice that they have in common? Cherry Blossoms are a frequent subject of Japanese haikus. Can you create a haiku about something that you find beautiful?