The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku "The Haiku Handbook" is the first book to give the reader everything needed to begin writing or teaching haiku. It presents haiku poets writing in English, Spanish, French, German, and five other languages on an equal footing with ...
Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach HaikuHigginsonWilliam JKodansha Amer Inc
While I now teach college students, I still work every semester to bring my interests and passions into the classroom, whether its meditation, bonsai gardening, poetry, yoga, painting, or music. By bringing your interests into the curriculum, you are essentially teaching who you are. Teach the...
For books marketed to younger audiences, you need to know that parents will want to buy this book. Children usually don’t spend the money to buy your story. Yes, make something entertaining for kids — but you need parents to buy your book first....
There are actually many different ways to write a cinquain, so I’m just going to teach you how to write a traditional cinquain, as it was defined by the poet who invented it. These are the rules: Cinquains are five lines long. ...
A sonnet’s not an easy thing to teach. I guess that’s what this poem aims to do. It seems that starting was the hardest part. I hope the teacher likes my work of art. Another good thing to write a sonnet about is something youlike. For example, I like my dog, so I thought ...
My grandmother used to have some funny sayings that left me wondering. One of these sayings was:I’m as contented as an old cow put out to pasture.It was like she was trying to teach us something but I was too young to understand. ...
I complained the last time I blogged on MediaComp (in 2021) that it was hard to teach MediaComp in Python today. We had created the JES IDE (Jython Environment for Students), but that required Java (which has been increasingly hard to install) and Jython (which was no longer being act...
You can also sign in with Twitter to quickly share slides with others or embed them on your classroom website. Haiku Deck is also an excellent tool for teaching students how to build slideshows without all the extra confusion that sometimes comes from learning PowerPoint, e...
Kids are our best teachers — I encourage big people to get down on the carpet, let go of the idea that playing is a waste of time, and do one thing that they really loved as a kid and see if they feel like they are 'too busy' to miss that feeling in life.!It's about doing...