Following the traditional form of the haiku, students publish their own haikus using Animoto, an online web tool that creates slideshows that blend text and music.
This article lists seven art techniques and four poetry types that can be used to depict and describe the aurora.
With this lesson plan students to become better writers in the long run, and develop skills that the students must know for Istep testing. Not only does this activity allow for students to build upon previously learned concepts and use them to create their own poems, but it also helps cover aspects of the following standards: 4.RF.4.1, 4.RF.4.2l,4.RV.3.1.
Student have learned about the landscape paintings, haikus, and pictograph writing as a study of the ancient culture of Japan. They also learned about the religions of Japan. This is a project based assessment, where students will create a landscape painting, a haiku and caligraphy/pictographs.
This course covers medieval Japanese society and culture from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries, when political power rested largely in the hands of feudal warriors. Topics include religion (especially Zen Buddhism); changing concepts of “the way of the warrior;” women under feudalism; popular culture; and protest and rebellion. Presentations include weekly feature films. Assigned readings include many literary writings in translation.
In this video, Professor Art Carden of Samford University simplifies the laws of supply and demand into short haikus.
The students will create a woven scrapbook exploring and weaving different genres: poetry, narrative, expository/informative and argumentative/persuasive. In preparation for the book students will need to address literacy, rights and self advocacy. This lesson will pull into current events in the local community and make connections to global scale. As an extension teachers can digitize pieces from the individual books and tie into a longer documentary piece.
Students will examine works of art that incorporate Asian export objects, and then respond to them using Japanese haiku poems.
Learn more about the Japanese form of poetry known as haiku. In this video segment from Poetry Everywhere, the poet Robert Hass reads a short collection of amusing, often ironic haiku by Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa.
In this module, students will learn a basic understanding of Traditional Haiku will be explored from definition to creation.
This article provides ideas and resources for writing science-themed poetry in the elementary classroom. NCTE/IRA Standards alignments are included for each lesson.