Here is a great PPt that will teach your students to create a Haiku and Diamond poem. If your students are ESL I recommend you separate this in two classes.

1. Mrs. Cruz
10th grade

2. What do you know or think you know
about Haiku? Is it supposed to
rhyme?What country does it come
from?

3. Definition:
Unit of a word.
Ex/plain
Dic/tio/na/ry
De/light

4. Is a form of Japanese poetry. It often centers
around nature.
Haiku Poems don’t rhyme; they follow a
pattern.The pattern is the following:
Line 1: 5 syllables
Line 2: 7 syllables
Line 3: 5 syllables
The/ ca/the/dral/ bell
Is sha/king/ a/ few/ snow/flakes
From/ the/ mor/ning/ air
-Virgilio
5
7
5

5. Traditional haiku
poems are
based on
nature.

6. Ancient silent pond
Then a frog jumped right in
Splash goes the water

7. If I were water
I would satisfy your thirst
Letting you drink

9. Now that you have read Haiku and studied
them, it is time to write your own! Have fun!
Remember:
Line 1: 5 syllables
Line 2: 7 syllables
Line 3: 5 syllables
Here I had a video that showed beautiful
places on our planet earth.
I used this one fromYouTube:
Planet Earth: Amazing nature scenery

10. A diamond poem is a poem in the shape of a
diamond. Each line uses specific types of
words, like adjectives and –ing words. It does
not have to rhyme.

11.  Format
Beginning topic
Adjective, adjective (about beginning topic)
-ing word, -ing word (about beginning topic)
For nouns-or- a short phrase (about both beginning and ending topic)
-ing word, -ing word, -ing word (about ending topic)
Adjective, adjective (about ending topic)
Ending topic

12. Monsters
Creepy, sinister
Hiding, lurking, stalking
Vampires, werewolves, mummies, and zombies
Chasing, pouncing, eating
Hungry, Scary
Creatures

13.  Now write your very own Diamond Poem.
Day
Bright, sunny
Laughing, playing, doing
Up in the east, down in the west
Talking, resting sleepingQuiet, dark
Night