No one wants to be last in any competition. Right? Only about 20% of people are concerned about being the winner or loser. They just compete for the sake of enjoyment but I’m among them who wants to ...

Anchor the idea with examples of each characteristic. Re-read Basho and the Fox and focus on the haiku poetry by doing a think aloud. Discuss the characteristics of haiku in each haiku that Basho ...

KWL overhead (attached pdf); sample frog haiku by Basho on an overhead (attached pdf); sample haiku poetry written by Matsuo Basho to be posted in the classroom (attached pdf). Introduce the lesson ...

Senryu, as WelchM has explained to us, is a form of poetry very like haiku but with a dash of humorous irony. (Samples follow below.) Such a poem typically has three lines and a total of about 10 ...

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In this video, Jeff Kass introduces the concept of urban sprawl and teaches us how to explore it through the ancient Japanese poetic form, haiku. Learn how to capture the delicate balance between ...

To explore different types of poetry and write your own haiku poem. All poems are made up of words. Poems can tell a story or be about a thought or a feeling. They can be serious or silly ...

Shorter forms of poetry like limericks and haiku are not only fun to write, but they also have a long history. When poets don’t have many words, they have to think carefully about their choice ...