Lesson 1
“WRITE” Through It.
Not long ago, I found my old notebook from a teacher training course from many years back. We were tasked with constructing 8 short lessons to teach within a 10 minute timeframe over 8 weeks.
Many of my classmates taught wonderful and complex topics on all sorts of things. As students, we were taking a lot of information in 10 minute segments, but I wanted to take a different approach.
I taught short 1 minute lessons and provided the group 9 minutes to write in response. Each week, the topic was different, ranging from serious to silly.
The feedback was from the group was a clear indication that many of us are writers at heart. They loved the simplicity and the TIME to put pen to pad to consider their own words.
We learned a lot about each other in those 8 weeks.
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So after hearing my third client last week say that they used to love writing but either had no time for it, or made no time for it, I decided to bring that short course to you here.
Perhaps it will inspire you to play more with your words.
I present, lesson one. ♡
5.7.5
Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that has just three lines:
five syllables in the first line
seven syllables in the second line
five syllables in the third line.
Here is an example by Cassandra Jasmine:
FAMILY
A complex puzzle
unable to lose a piece,
always there for you.
What can be shared in just three brief lines?
It can be challenging to reduce an experience down to a few short words.
Are you up for the challenge?
Write a haiku using the prompt below, or create your own.
THE HAPPIEST I HAVE EVER BEEN…
PLEASE SHARE YOUR WORDs.
Post your HAPPY HAIKU in the comments or in the form below. Encourage your kids, partner, or co-worker to play along.
Submissions will be posted to the bottom of this page.
Haiku Submissions
FLOATING
The sun warms my skin
I float blissfully at sea
This is peace within.
-Yvette Sechrist McGlasson
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At peace, feeling light
Bumps and turns on the roadway
Living sets me free.
-RP
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Inhale and exhale
The Greek sunrise filled my soul
Our marriage is here.
-Jordan Tarver
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Radiant smiling
My lungs bursting with laughter
hugs from my children
-Beth D.
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I built it for her.
We moved in ten years ago.
Grew our family.
-G.A.
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We took a cruise ship
to an island far away.
Incredible time.
-Lisa G.
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All of life is good
Happy is a state of mind
Stay there more often.
- O.G. The Real
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SkyDiving:
I dove from the sky
Please don’t even ask me why
Glad I did not die.
-R.L.
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My daughter is amazing
She is always there for me
I am grateful for her.
-Thankful Mom
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First heartbeats, first breaths,
heart now grows outside my chest.
The births of my boys.
-Jacquelyn Benjamin
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Bare souls, tangled hearts -
if only for a moment,
some people change us.
-Jacquelyn Benjamin
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