One of the Year 11 units takes the form of work on intertextuality. Students construct 7-10 haiku, then a haibun either using haiku they have generated or making fresh ones, then they create a writers statement to discuss the technical aspects of their own writing. Within that they should discuss intertextuality between the prose and the haiku but potentially between their work and other poets.
Methinks Hosai would be a favourite of hikers.
I'd forgotten about Snapshot's free e-books!
The page colour is interesting--an aspect of e-book publishing I hadn't considered.
I love the 'the sea inside' as well. Reminds me of this one by Hōsai (trans. Hiroaki Sato):
With bleeding hands I swam out of the grassfield
I printed them out in full colour and pbound them for class, this semester. It does slow down the reading just enough.
How does haiku fit into your curriculum?
One of the Year 11 units takes the form of work on intertextuality. Students construct 7-10 haiku, then a haibun either using haiku they have generated or making fresh ones, then they create a writers statement to discuss the technical aspects of their own writing. Within that they should discuss intertextuality between the prose and the haiku but potentially between their work and other poets.
Nice! A lot going on in a relatively contained space. How do the students find it?
Deceptively difficult. 😀