When you write a haiku, you are sharing an event or an object that ... Frogs are a common subject of Japanese poetry, but every poem to that time was about the frog`s singing, but Basho`s frog is ...

KWL overhead (attached pdf); sample frog haiku by Basho on an overhead (attached pdf); sample haiku poetry written by Matsuo Basho to be posted in the classroom (attached pdf). Introduce the lesson ...

“(They thought) ‘Oh, it’s a frog. It sounds cute.’ But the problem is they have no predators here. So we have to be the predators.” In Haiku, home to the island’s largest known ...