Haiku poetry lesson

by Linda Theil

Yesterday we had a fun and exciting haiku poetry class with Emerson, Jake, Sawyer, Alisa, and Angie. We used the Zoom video conferencing app/software to share our poetry lesson online. I wrote the class outline and Alisa created a PowerPoint presentation that I shared as a separate window in the Zoom meeting. Below is a screen shot of our Zoom classroom.

A PDF file of our haiku lesson is online at "Haiku Lesson in Poetry by Linda Theil". The class is designed to last from 20-30 minutes. We used the recording feature in the Zoom program to record the entire class.

The linked poem in our cover shot at the top of this page is a tanka Alisa and I wrote for our haiku class. The art in the photo is by Emerson. We used the Over design app to highlight work by all the poets in yesterday's class.

Jake

Alisa

Angie

Sawyer

Emerson

Resources:
Haiku class outline
https://tinyurl.com/yckralmg
and
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zz-PgKh8TbW_PLmMxg4cH6NGBvE2OURz/view?usp=sharing

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