Creative Writing Exercise
to record your new understanding and experience of Kāpiti
Island
You have a choice of:
a)
developing a
series of Haiku (at least three) and adding them to your blog
Haiku poems date from 9th century Japan to the present day. Haiku is more than
a type of poem; it is a way of looking at the physical world and seeing
something deeper, like the very nature of existence.
The structure of a Haiku is
5, 7, 5
Here are two examples
of the haiku of Basho Matsuo, the first great poet of haiku in the 1600s:
An old silent pond... 5
syllables Autumn
moonlight—
A frog jumps into the
pond, 7
syllables a worm digs
silently
splash! Silence
again. 5 syllables into the chestnut.
PLUS
b)
Creating a piece of art work to go with your
haiku (we’ll talk about this).
OR
c)
Writing a story from the perspective of someone
who lived on the island. This can be fact or fiction. You could choose to write
about someone from the history of the island, dating back to Te Rauparaha and
the Ngāti Toa people in the early 1800s right up to the present time. This
might be in the form of a diary or might be a story from a third person
perspective. It might be from the perspective of a native bird or a species
that is now extinct; it might be a historical viewpoint from someone involved
in the battles on the island; it might be a factual description of life on the
island at any time in its history. You choose!
In your narrative, think about conditions for
those who lived on the island: isolation, food sources, amenities (cooking,
toilet facilities, hygiene) animals, bird life, dangers, medical emergencies
etc. (You can also do art to accompany this, if you wish to.)
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