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BRINGING HAIKU
BACK TO LIFE

Haiku Website

Grade 7 PowerPoint Mini-Poetry Unit


Japanese Garden by Bun, Westmount

This is a cross-grade interdisciplinary
mini-unit for poetry.  
It is designed to help students
explore haiku using technology
to enhance their studies.  
In turn, teachers can take these ideas
and adapt them as necessary
to their own classroom.

WEEK ONE
Foundations

 Background Knowledge
*History
*Importance
*Age Old Form

WEEK TWO
Explorations

 *Hunt for 5 Haiku poets

WEEK THREE
Empowerment

 *Write your own haiku -
  explore traditional and
  alternative forms
SAMPLE POWERPOINT
PRESENTATION		 View a sample PowerPoint
Presentation here!
PLANTING THE SEEDS *Suggested Extension
  Activities

LINKS TO OTHER
HAIKU SITES

 *Exceptional Curricular
  Links to Haiku Websites

CURRICULUM
CONNECTION

 Language Arts 7
Social Studies 7
Technology Outcomes

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Created and Maintained by A. E. Lipkewich and R. S. Mazurenko
Revised June 14, 1999 & November 19, 1999
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