Elicit non-trivial dialogue from students. Guide students to reflection and analysis of the experience. Encourage students to share their perceptions and beliefs. Summarize and review similarities and differences.

Determine what all of the poems have in common.

Objective: To analyze the commonality of the poetry.

Activity: In class discussion, students determine what all of the poems have in common. (3 lines with syllable pattern 5-7-5.)

(A haiku is a poem in three lines of five, then seven, then five syllables. It is made by speaking of something natural and simple suggesting spring, summer, autumn, or winter. There is no rhyme. Everything mentioned is just what it is, wonderful, here, but still beyond.)

Ask students what qualifies a poem as haiku? What stays consistent in haiku?

Assessment: Participation in discussion and quality of ideas.