Standard 1. Students read and understand a variety of materials. Standard 5. Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience. Standard 2. Students know physical and human ...

Jasmin Kirkbride is a member of the British Haiku Society, the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE-UKI) and the Haiku Foundation Registry. She is also a member of the ...

At a recent political protest in Vergennes, Julia Alvarez took special note of the handmade signs. “I love the creativity of some of the signs,” the Weybridge writer said, “the sense of driving home a ...

Haiku poems have reflected humans' experiences in nature for hundreds of years, including observations of bugs and other wildlife. Recently, researchers analyzed which insects were mentioned the most ...

* What can we learn about reading and writing haiku, in particular traditional Japanese haiku? * What can we learn about reading literature closely, by focusing on words and images in order to explore ...