Sonnet+and+Haiku

I am a librarian now, but my undergrad work was in secondary English education. From student teaching experiences, I learned that students often find poetry writing assignments difficult. They have the necessary creativity, but sometimes need a little push to get them started--what better use for a starter? I made two different Powerpoint activities to help students get started writing two different types of poetry.

My original starter explain the characteristics of a Shakespearean sonnet, gives both text and audio examples of a sonnet, and encourages students to write and "illustrate" their own sonnets. Links to the original (sonnet) starter and a completed sample version are linked below:

[|Sonnet starter version] [|Sonnet sample version]

I adapted the Shakespearean sonnet version of the starter to haiku. This one is simpler, since haiku is a "simpler" form of poetry, but it provides the same type of information. A starter version of the haiku activity is linked below:

[|Haiku starter version]

Obviously, this could be adapted in many other ways. The possibilities are as many as there are forms of poetry!

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