1. Haiku Poems Outcomes: To understand the structure of a Haiku.
Learning Objectives:
Understand, interpret and discuss how language is compressed to produce a dramatic effect in film or drama, and to create layers of meaning in poetry, for example haiku, tankas, couplets, free verse and verse novels (ACELT1623)
Outcomes:
To understand the structure of a Haiku.
To create a Haiku using the correct syllable pattern.
To create a Haiku using the correct structure to create impact.

2. Haiku
A haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that has only three short lines.
It has a fixed form.
Usually the first line has five syllables, the second has seven and the third has five again.
There are usually two ideas or images that connect.
The poems are normally about nature.
‘Tea leaf in my cup:
Did you read your own future,
growing in China?’ 5 7

3. Haiku poems As the wind does blow Across the trees, I see the
            Buds blooming in May     
Falling to the ground,
        I watch a leaf settle down
In a bed of brown.
I walk across sand
And find myself blistering
In the hot, hot heat
It’s cold—and I wait
For someone to shelter me
And take me from here.

4. Write your own haiku poem
Read the words below in order to create your own haiku poem on one of the seasons.
Summer: sun, hot, twilight, ladybirds, scorching sun, ice cream, beaches, sand, warmth, blue sky
Autumn: falling leaves, red, gold, brown, rain, starry nights, wind, crackling leaves
Winter: snow, snowflakes, cold, dark, long nights, icicles, gloomy, fires, ice skating
Spring: flowers, green, grass, blossom, sunrise, sky, spring rain, birth, nature, new life, babies, growth.

5. Using one of the images below, draft your own Haiku – remember the structure!
Water
Fire
Earth
Wind

6. Haiku writing
Now write a haiku poem on the nature topic of your choice.
As a class brainstorm a list of topics about nature that you could write about.
It may help you to brainstorm some ideas on your topic before trying to get the syllable structure correct.

7. Haiku revision Japan Nature – animals, plants, weather, etc
Where do Haiku poems originate from?
What are Haiku poems usually about?
What is the structure of a Haiku?
Japan
Nature – animals, plants, weather, etc
First line = 5 syllables
Second line = 7 syllables
Third line = 5 syllables

8. Peer Assess Outcomes: To understand the structure of a Haiku.
Share your Haiku poems with a partner.
Check the syllable pattern.
Comment on:
 What was done well?
 What could be improved?
Outcomes:
To understand the structure of a Haiku.
To create a Haiku using the correct syllable pattern.
To create a Haiku using the correct structure to create impact.

9. Couplets The easiest of the verse forms. Any topic you choose
Two lines, with the last words of each rhyming with each other.
Multiple couplets may be combined on one topic to make one poem

10. Examples of couplets Grandmother sits in her old rocking chair.
She rocks and she rocks all day there.
Ideas with nowhere to hide An eureka moment inside
Nature puts on little shows Every time it rains or snows.

11. Your turn
Use the topic of your choice to write a poem consisting of at least 3 couplets (6 lines total)
It may help to think of rhyming word pairs and then create the sentences about the topic around the rhyme, rather than figuring out the rhyme at the end