1. Lesson Essential Question:
Can you identify and write a Haiku?

2. Lesson Essential Question:
What are
the elements of a haiku?

3. Haiku means “beginning phrase”

4. Definition
The traditional Japanese haiku is a short poem about nature which includes a ‘season word’ and three lines with seventeen syllables.
Line 1 has 5 syllables
Line 2 has 7 syllables
Line 3 has 5 syllables

5. A haiku should make you ponder and puzzle about it for awhile….

6. Over the splashing green sea
The Sea and the birds
By Emily F.
Seagulls are swooping
Over the splashing green sea
In search for some food.