For the last week's discussion thread, I had explored various sites and struck at Haiku for next lesson to my class. Its not a new term to me, rather I was introduced to it when I was attending a teacher training course in 2004. I wrote my first Haiku then.
I have seen Fifth grade students in private English-medium schools successfully composing these three line poems in 5-7-5 syllable pattern. May be for some readers it would be a new term still, but in my opinion writing Haiku can be a good lesson in writing skills focusing on boosting their creativity.
My students, who are at intermediate level, were able to produce some very interesting Haiku. I would like to share them with you here:
Autumn Leaf
It is Autumn time
A leaf no longer green, falls!
Softly kissing earth.
Love
Love like a deep ocean
Has large and small stormy waves,
And it flows and goes.
Blossoms
The fallen blossoms
Seemed to fly up to their branch!
They were butterflies.
Friends
Friends are those beans, which
Seldom ripe to change the taste
Of your life for good!
Though I have specialized in ELT as a teacher but the appeal that I found in literature as a reader and researcher is immense. The joy that comes through reading such thoughts adds to the satisfaction that comes with teaching. The objectives of teaching this lesson were successfully achieved with exception to some syllable mistakes in some poems that I had to correct and recommend for revision.
today I have preserved them by writing in this reflective blog.
A far better substitute to students' port folio in hard copy.
I hope you will enjoy reading these pieces.
I have seen Fifth grade students in private English-medium schools successfully composing these three line poems in 5-7-5 syllable pattern. May be for some readers it would be a new term still, but in my opinion writing Haiku can be a good lesson in writing skills focusing on boosting their creativity.
My students, who are at intermediate level, were able to produce some very interesting Haiku. I would like to share them with you here:
Autumn Leaf
It is Autumn time
A leaf no longer green, falls!
Softly kissing earth.
Love
Love like a deep ocean
Has large and small stormy waves,
And it flows and goes.
Blossoms
The fallen blossoms
Seemed to fly up to their branch!
They were butterflies.
Friends
Friends are those beans, which
Seldom ripe to change the taste
Of your life for good!
Though I have specialized in ELT as a teacher but the appeal that I found in literature as a reader and researcher is immense. The joy that comes through reading such thoughts adds to the satisfaction that comes with teaching. The objectives of teaching this lesson were successfully achieved with exception to some syllable mistakes in some poems that I had to correct and recommend for revision.
today I have preserved them by writing in this reflective blog.
A far better substitute to students' port folio in hard copy.
I hope you will enjoy reading these pieces.
Hi Yusro,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Rudi Hartono from Semarang State University, Indonesia. Congratulation on your success to manage your class and organize your students to compose some beautiful lines of poems. I like poems. I have taught Poetry in my class because my educational background of undergraduate program is English literature, though my Master's degree is English education, but my Doctoral degree is Literary Translation. All have an interconnection to the Literary World. When I taught my class poetry, I asked my students to listen to recorded English poems, so they could learn more the original poems spoken by native speakers. It was one of authentic listening materials I used. I think you can use some podcast about reading poems by native speakers downloaded from the internet. You can visit the following URL http://www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory/Literature/Poetry as the link of Poetry Podcasts. If you don't mind, you can also visit my blog "Rudi's Blog in Wiki Blog Roll" or http://e-teachingweb.blogspot.com/.
Thanks.
Regards,
Rudi Hartono
Hi Rudi,
DeleteAs per your invitation, I did visit your blog and read your profile and posts.
Its great to have course mates with your experience and expertise with us.
I will really benefit from your suggested sites.
Thanks.
Yusra
Hi Yusra, thanks for sharing those poems. I also love literature. In fact I teach children's literature and literature I. When reading your post, I thought I could share this link so that you can connect technology and literature.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pbs.org/parents/creativity/ideas/haiku.html
Your students can create an online haiku and you also get some ideas to use them in the classroom. Hope you find it interesting.
Best,
Ma. Laura
Hi Yusra,
ReplyDeleteYes indeed I enjoyed reading the small poems that your students wrote. I agree with you that the students become creative when you expose them to creativity. Their poems show that they were motivated and enthusiastic in their attempts. I liked Maria's idea that combining both literature and technology will lead into splendid results. I wish you all success in your career.
Regards,
Mohammad
Dear Colleagues,
ReplyDeleteI really am thankful for your reviews on my blog post.
I must mention here that in Week 2 Web Searching, I discovered a weblink that contained idea about Haiku. It is:
http://www.webtopos.gr/eng/literature/greek/index.htm
Different web resources give ideas for lessons in an ESL class for building up their language skills.I also visited the sites mentioned by Maria and Rudi and found them very useful.
Thanks for enriching this blog by sharing these links.
Best,
Yusra
hello Yusra,
ReplyDeleteI loved your students' haikus . It is great to discover our students 'creativity .
I do not use poetry a lot in my teaching but I think it could be a good idea!
The idea of haiku is great because it is short and you do not need to be bilingual to write very nice ones.
Thank you for sharing your experience and the websites !