This document provides information about haikus, including their history and structure. It discusses how haikus originated in Japan as three lines of a longer poem called a tanka. It also outlines the typical 5-7-5 syllable structure of haikus and how they are meant to capture a moment or feeling. The document concludes with examples of haikus and an activity for writing your own haiku.

1. By Sherry Salant
Communication Arts 10-12 grade

2.  Missouri Standards 3
Difference between Poetry and Prose 4
Where did it Begin? 5
Rules of the Haiku 6
Talk the talk of a Haiku 7
Examples of Haikus 9-11
Write you own Haiku 12-13
Questions and Answers 14
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3. Missouri Communications Arts Content Standard
CA3-Reading and evaluating material/ Process
Standard 1.10 Applying acquired information,
ideas, and skills
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4. prose poetry
word syllables
sentence line
paragraph stanza
structure rhythm
Read silently Read aloud
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5.  Japan 9th-11th Century
 Came from the Tanka
 The Tanka is five lines
 The Tanka has 5,7,5,7,7 syllables
 One person wrote the first three lines
 Another person wrote the last two lines
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6.  The first three lines set the tone of
the Tanka.
 They were called the “hokku”.
 People started writing just the 3
lines called the
Haiku.
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7. The Haiku poetry
5,7,5 syllables
3 lines line
1 stanza stanza
No constraints rhythm
Read slowly Read aloud
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8.  Three lines 5,7,5
 A moment in time captured like a photo
 A moment in nature or human nature
 The first line or two is the image
 The last line or two explains how you feel about
it
Precipitation
Brings more anticipation
And contemplation.
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12. Start with a photo
Tell me what you see
Listen to the syllables
How do you feel about the image?
Let’s try this one …

13.  Fishing
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14. Feel free to ask
Questions any questions you
may have about
and Answers the Haiku.
Do
you have to • Yes, if you are doing traditional Haikus
be exact on • Contemporary Haikus bend the rules
the syllables
per line
Does it have • Yes, it needs to be about Nature
to be about • It can be about human nature
nature? • Or the human condition
Do people
write many • There are many websites with new Haiku writing
Haikus these • There are world Haiku conferences that include
examples in this presentation
days?
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15. All images were retrieved from
Google.com/images Web 01/08/10
Hass, Robert, ed., The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho,
Buson, & Issa. Hopewell, NJ.: The Ecco Press., 1994.
 haikumom. (2009). haiku northwest seabeck retreat 2009
 [video]. Retrieved January 10, 2010 from
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMKA14Imqzw
Patterns in Poetry retrieved from
www.cranberrydesigns.com/poetry/haiku/history.htm
 skipperoohoo. (2009). haikus [video]. Retrieved January 10,
2010 from
 ww.youtube.com/watch?v=CLX3cS14zs&feature=player_embedded
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