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Yerang Cho Enya

English
Haiku
Grade 2B : 30mins
Lesson: Introduction of Haiku poems
Unit Overview
Main Idea (Claim) Summative Assessment
Haiku poems Students will create their own Haiku
poems.

Guiding Questions Objectives (know/understand/do/value)

The student will . . .
- What is Haiku poem? - know Haiku : 3 lines, no rhyme, 17
syllables.
- Create Haiku poem.

Time Instructional Procedures and Strategies

Beginning the Lesson
Hello class!
3mins Weve been learning about poems. Who can tell me the literary devices
that we learned already?
- Rhyming, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia etc.

Today we will learn about new kind of poem. Its name is Haiku.
Show them the one Haiku in Japanese.
What kind of language do you think this is?
- Japan
Haiku is a Japanese traditional poem that is mostly about nature.
Most common topic for Haiku is season or weather or nature.

2mins Should we look at the English one?

I will show you an example!

<Rain>
Splish - splash, puddle bath! (splish splash = repeated splashing sound)
raindrops march in spring parade-
wake up, sleepy earth

What do you think?

What did you notice about Haiku?
Did you notice something
thats different than the poems we have been writing?
: No Rhyming words.
: Only three lines.

5mins The secret of Haiku is it has 17 syllables in total.

What do we know about syllable?
Syllable syl-la-ble
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Yerang Cho Enya
English
Haiku
Grade 2B : 30mins
-part of a word
Has a vowel: a, e, i, o, u, sometimes y
Look at the Rain together. and practice syllables.
practice syllables by clapping and counting together.
ex: rain-bow,
Lets mark the syllables on Rain
can someone come and mark the first line. (Put a dot under the syllables)
Call different students to mark the second line, and third line too.

Do we think its correct?

Flower
in tickly-toe grass,
a buttercup offers up
yellow nose kisses

1line : 5
2line : 7
3line : 5

5mins Today we are going to write one.

Before that, lets make a word bank.
Our topic is :Nature
what words can you think of when you hear nature?
10 - 15 words.
Nature : Weather - rain, sunny, cloudy, windy,
Mountain, trees, sky, grass, flower, bee, butterfly, bird, pretty, hot, warm,
cold, icy, frigid, forest, ocean, waves, etc.

Count the syllables of the words together and mark the syllables with
dots.

Should we write one all together? : if we have enough time

What is Haiku again?

:Japanese, three lines.
How many syllables in first line? - 5
How many syllables in second line? - 7
How many syllables in third line? - 5
and does it rhyme?

15mins
Okay! Now its your turn.
You can use these words or you can come up with your own words.

Closing the Lesson

Students will go back to their seat. and create one or two Haiku poems.
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Yerang Cho Enya
English
Haiku
Grade 2B : 30mins

Formative Assessment Differentiation

Questions during the lesson

Resources
Haiku https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOMuVpN8XqM
Syllables https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YniPzjJaivw
Examples of Haiku poems
Work sheet

Haiku
Three lines
No rhyme
Total 17 syllables
1st line ______________ = 5 syllables
2nd line _________________= 7 syllables
3rd line ______________ = 5 syllables

Butterflies
Butterflies are cool
in the big, huge, green forest.
They fly up so high!