HAIKU LESSON PLAN KLA : English Syllabus outcome/s and indicator/s: Class : Year 7 English Date : __/__/12 In this

lesson the learners will: Time : 75 mins

Learn about Haiku as a form of poetry. They will learn about Haikus: Students learn to: 4.1 Identify and describe the purpose, audience and context of texts - History 4.3 adapt texts for different purposes, audiences and contexts and articulate the - Influences effects on meaning Students learn about: - Features 4.8 The ways in which specific language forms and features and structures of text - Rules are used to shape meaning including, in written texts: medium, organisation, sentence structures, grammar, punctuation, [] the use of formal or colloquial They will learn how to compose Haiku, from brainstorming ideas to writing drafts language and figurative language TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIONS Orientation: 10 minutes Reflection: 10 minutes Consolidate: ask ID students something new they learnt about how they can use poetry to Focus: One of the easiest forms of poetry to write is Haiku because it doesnt need to rhyme and it has very strict rules. We are going to learn these rules and write our express the way they feel and see the world. Reflect: has what we have learnt today changed what you think of poetry? own. Challenge/Extend: make your poems into a poster with one or more illustrations describing Engage: Teacher Opening Activity Haiku board brainstorm or depicting what the poems are about. Students can make single posters for Haiku or they Access: Students write their own ideas on board, interact and peer teach class. On can also write a Cinquain next lesson on the same topic and combine them. (Explain next board quiz of Haiku rules and features. Number of lines, syllables etc. lesson is Cinquains etc.. BEFORE STARTING ON FINAL POEM POSTER)
Content Time Discovery & Exploration Class Structure Teachers Role What - Assessment How Resources

Class Activity, board brainstorm and quiz

10 min

Haiku history, context, influence

5 min

As a class students will respond to a big word haiku and written on the board. Ideas about what they know or think they know about Haiku and what the word means. Samples displayed or written on board, class allowed to respond with opinions. Features and form rules quizzed (alternative to direct instruction) Brief historical account of Haiku - Haiku is 17-syllable verse usually concentrated on natural imagery. It originated in Japan in the 19th Century. In Japanese, it is the singular (explain vs plurals) of haikai, in haikai no renga "jesting linked-verse;" (originally a succession of haiku linked together in one poem.)

Whole Class

Class control and response, participation on board

Class quizHaiku samples, rules

4.1 and 4.8

Whiteboard or Smartboard for sharing the class ideas and learning

Direct instruction

Learn how the history of Haiku and its context influences the rules about how written

HAIKU LESSON PLAN Rules of Haiku and how to write Haiku 5 min Explain: Haiku always written in 3 lines. Each line has a set number of syllables. 1st line - 5 2nd line 7 3rd line - 5 Direct instruction A Haiku is inspired by observation. Traditional authors watched the beauty of the natural world and wrote about it. You simply think about something natural that you like, write a free description of it and then make that description fit the rules! Haiku are commonly accompanied by an illustration Explain nouns, verbs, adjectives. Whole Evaluation is important - Make a judgement based on class criteria; determine the value of group word choices In groups Students brainstorm winter words. Group 1 nouns, 2 adjectives, 3 - verbs Group work Students write their own haiku, using words from the Monitoring charts. Individual student student activities work (The word lists are for reference; encourage students to use their own words if they think of something that is not on the charts.) Students can share their Haiku if it is finished, peers offer feedback. Homework is to write their Haiku on a new piece of paper and accompany it with an illustration Encouraging students to share Haiku

4.8

Instruction in how the structure of the Haiku shapes meaning

Board to write or display information on

Explanation of group activity Class writes a Haiku

5 min

20 min

Grammar nouns, verbs, adjectives. Evaluation skills

Active use Large paper for group words

Independent work

15 min

4.3

Adapt Haiku purposes to describe experiences of winter Sharing of poetry with class

Haiku Starter worksheet

Reflection an consolidation

10 min

Whole Class

Public speaking skills, audience etiquette

Blank sheets of paper