Tuesday, April 19, 2016

FRIDAY CLASSWORK GROUP POST #2: group Haikus

Having fun with Haikus (we will spend several classes playing with various types of poetic form)

    1. Most Haikus focus on nature imagery, without necessarily worrying about a deeper human meaning.  These are different, though.  
      1. Read the poems aloud to each other and discuss: how does the author use the simple imagery to get across meaning about a human experience?
    2. Practice! Take one person’s longer poem, in the group, and condense it into a Haiku-like poem (because traditional Haikus usually reference nature, this is really just using the style of a Haiku).  You must attempt to retain the overall meaning of the original poem, but also try to mimic the kinds of imagery a Haiku uses.
    3. GROUP BLOG POST #2: post your finished group haiku

7 comments:

  1. Sydney, Molly, Asia, Jennifer
    The ocean waves flow
    The sand beneath my toes is warm
    Oh how nice it is

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  2. Elena, Ban, Sabrina
    We had two because it's fun

    Fifty-two in all
    Yet one extraneous card
    Throws the balance off

    A pack of cards and
    All but one do dance and twirl
    Gladly ignorant

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  3. Vanessa, Nia, Kevin, Selam,
    Walls mean nothing to me
    Still you continue to build and divide
    Why can't we just cooperate?

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  4. I was in love with
    you as a whole. Never one
    without the other.

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    Listen to your heart,
    listen to what it tells you,
    This is important.

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    -Chrys, paige, tina, jason

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  5. My Phuong, Anna, Aisha, Rowana, and Zanele

    We might not sing the
    loveliest songs, but silence
    says more than we could.

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  6. Steel high hat smooth sound
    The pocket, the groove, that's it
    Add more feel, that's music
    Adrian

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  7. Walking at nights or noon is the same for you
    Plants reproduce asexually

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