Asian Poetry (Haiku, Sijo, Jueju)

[Dennis O'Connell]

I am putting together a lesson plan to teach Haiku writing from Japan, Sijo poetry from Korea, and Jueju poetry from China.  I have located so far the following helpful websites for use with elementary students:

Haiku - https://www.kidzone.ws/poetry/haiku.htm  and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkiTLxIQhdw

Sijo - https://www.playfullearning.net/resource/sijo-poetry-for-kids/

Jueju - https://nie.newsok.com/wp-content/uploads/Asian-Heritage-Student-Poster.pdf  and  https://www.poetspoetrypoems.com/categories/listings/jueju.html

 

The first website for haiku explains the form of the poetry and provides three printable worksheets (very similar to each other, you can pick the one that works for you).  The second website for haiku is a very well done video walking students through the writing of a haiku.  It even helps students work through mistakes of too many syllables!

The website for Sijo poetry is mostly an advertisement for Linda Sue Park, but contains some valuable information about the poetry form. 

The first website for Jueju is a bit much for elementary school students, but some information can be gleaned from it.  The second website is again more for adults, but gives some background for teachers.  

By far, the websites for teaching Haiku were the most helpful.  Has anyone found websites for Sijo or Jueju which they have found to be helpful for their teaching those forms?  

[Heidi Kwalk]

Thanks, Dennis! These are great for elementary school children. My students wrote a haiku at the beginning of the year.  After I learned about sijo poem at this seminar, I taught sijo form to my students and had them enter the contest. They were pretty darn good--cute! I am disappointed that no students were recognized but students sure had fun with it. I had suggested to the Sejong contact person that they should have another category for elementary schools so they are not competing with the highschoolers. She appreciated the idea but she doesn't think it will happen for at least another couple of years as they had just added the adult category just last year. 

I appreciate your link to jueju form of poetry. That one will be a new one for me to add to these repertoire of poetry forms to teach.

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