Today I won't be providing my own haiku, but instead, some haiku written by my students during a free speaking lesson. For our free period today, I decided we could talk about haiku. After the students got over their initial hesitation, they began to figure out ways to explain the rules and structures of haiku. I played dumb and pretended that I didn't know very much about haiku. That they'd have to explain everything. They did a really good job. They even helped clarify a few things I was confused about regarding how haiku works in Japanese. After they were finished, I started to tell them about how haiku works in English. They were quite surprised that it existed and how we managed to incorporate/change the rules for the English structure. In our regular class periods we'd been learning about syllables and how to count them, so it was a perfect chance to practice. I had six students, so they all partnered up and wrote a haiku together. They really stuck to the rule regarding using a season, and they managed to count their syllables well and write some cool poems. Remember they are basic level students, so their finished products are actually very impressive.
At the end of the lesson I told all the students how I was writing at least one haiku for everyday in Japan and showed them my notebook. They thought it was really cool and I got to hear some great surprised Japanese sounds. "Eeeeeehhhhhhhhh?!"
Ayano & Masaki
When spring has gone and
mosquito just begins to fly
we can feel summer
Ai and Natsumi
In so cold winter
we need something warm to wear
for example, socks
Mune and Ryuhei
Too hot yesterday
so I went to beach friends
but it was rainy
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