Hundreds of Ways to See the Moundbuilders Through Haiku

Strand: Language Arts, Math, History
Grade Level: 7 & 8
Duration: One class period
Location: Pre or Post Site
Objective: Students will add choices on a morphological synthesis matrix in order to multiply selection choices
Students will use a morphological synthesis matrix to formulate haiku poems
Students will record their favorite haiku from hundreds of potential choices
Materials: examples of haiku
Vocabulary: haiku
Procedure: Explain that haiku is a brief poem of seventeen syllables.   Formal Japanese haiku poetry does not rhyme.  It has three lines of five, seven, and five syllables.  Work with examples, pointing out the lines and their syllables.

In composing columns of haiku lines, hundreds upon hundreds of sensory-oriented poems can be formed.  In this exercise alone there will be 719 choices.  Add the correct syllabic count of haiku lines to the blanks in order to create 719choices.

Hundreds of Ways to See the Mound builders Through Haiku
by:  (Student's Name)

First lines (5 syllables only)
  1. Ancient moundbuilders
  2. _____
  3. Prehistoric one
  4. Shapers of the earth
  5. Earthen moundbuilders
 Second lines (7 syllables only)
  1. What caused you to disappear
  2. Leaving your deceased behind
  3. Paying homage to your dead
  4. _____
  5. Why build mounds instead of pits
 Third lines(5 syllables only)
  1. Many years ago
  2. Like a point in time
  3. Were tears mixed with sweat
  4. In a past era
  5. _____

My favorite haiku is:

 
 

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