Lesson Plan : My Hikew
Teacher Name: | Ms. Anderson |
Grade: | Grade 4 |
Subject: | Language Arts |
Topic: | Haiku Poems |
Content: | During Language Arts have students use magazines to find a picture of focus to make a genuine Haiku poem with. The will look at the picture they chose and describe how it makes them feel in the poem. |
Goals: | The children will then present their poem to the class. The class will then express their feelings and compare those to the ones of the student who wrote the poem. This is not to say any one is right but to show how different children from different backgrounds feel about different things. |
Objectives: | Children will have a good understanding of syllables. Children will write a Haiku in proper form. When reflecting children will do it in a non objective manner. |
Materials: | National geographic magazines Scissors Glue Construction paper Black felt tip pens |
Introduction: | Explain that a Haiku is a type of poetry from the Japanese culture. Haiku poems can describe many daily situations in a way that gives the reader a brand new experience of a well known situation. Haiku poems do not rhyme. They give the reader a mental picture of the poem. Haiku poems can be written in 3 short lines, consisting of 17 syllables, which are as follows: first line = 5 syllables second line = 7 syllables third line = 5 syllables |
Development: | Syllables are the sounds that are broken down to make up the words. Clap your hands to your name to find out how many syllables your own name contains. My name is Shilah Anderson, so if I clapped the number of syllables in my name there would be five syllables. Shi-lah-An-der-son 1 2 3 4 5 A famous Japanese poet called Matso Basho, who lived in the seventeenth century wrote the following poem: Frog And Pond The old pond, yes, and A frog is jumping into The water, and splash. To check the syllables of this poem, you could clap your hands to see if they comply with the rule of a Haiku poem. Remember - first line 5 syllables, second line 7 syllables, third line 5 syllables The old pond, yes, and 1 2 3 4 5 A frog is jum- ping in to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The wa- ter and splash 1 2 3 4 5 |
Practice: | Have the students say and clap their names to see how many syllables they have. |
Accommodations: | ESOL and ESE students may need more explanation of syllables and of specific Haiku poems for a more concrete understanding. |
Checking For Understanding: | Have the children explain what a syllable is. Have them explain a Haku poem. |
Closure: | The children will have learned how to compose a genuine Haiku poem of their own using feelings and emotions. |
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