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Around School Field Trip: Maplewood, NJ: 2019
Educational Services
Around-School Field Trip
Engages up to 100 students in creative writing, teamwork, and community connection. In small groups, students embark on haiku scavenger hunts, creating poetry inspired by their surroundings. As they refine their haiku skills, they learn the power of concise, figurative language to express meaningful ideas.
Build-Your-Own Program
Push-in workshops to ELA or Seminar classes or a two-week long residency?
Build a program that serves the needs of your school whether they be literacy/writing focused, team-building or character development.
Professional Development Workshops
Enrich existing curricula with team-building and experiential learning.
Educators collaborate, share best practices, and explore the value of creative risk-taking in the classroom.
Guerilla Haiku Movement Results:
1. An amazing team/community-building experience for your students, teachers and staff.
2. The opportunity to engage in experiential learning that connects your school positively to the surrounding neighborhood.
3. The wholehearted activation of your student body around literacy.
But don’t take our word for it…
“The genius of Guerilla Haiku Movement is the magical combination of exploration, collaboration and self-expression. GHM intersects education and community building beautifully by bringing neighbors together while they learn new things about poetry, their community, and each other. And it’s fun!”
— Molly Rose Kaufman, Provost, University of Orange, HANDS Inc. Orange NJ
“Guerilla Haiku provided my students with an opportunity to be outdoors and observe the world through a new lens; while simultaneously experimenting with vocabulary and language. It was a wonderful way to help students gain confidence in their ability to write.”
— Marcia Richmond, 2nd grade classroom teacher, Long Island NY
“The scavenger hunt provided just the right amount of structure while still allowing students to explore their more creative and artistic selves.”
— Jeffrey Boyd, 7th grade teacher Greenhill Academy, Addison TX
Common Core Standard-Aligned
Speaking and Listening:
1. Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
Students work in collaborative learning groups, writing haiku together and engaging neighbors in the task of haiku-ing. Each interaction they have with a passerby is an opportunity to have a range of conversations with diverse folks.
ELA Standards met in Reading and Language:
Reading: Foundational Skills
2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes)
Language:
7.3.a: Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy.
Because the structure of a haiku is three lines; 5 syllables, then 7, then 5, students are challenged to be brief and get to the heart of what they are saying. They explore syllabic sounds and variances, and explain to others how to use those structures to build their own haiku.
Documentary style scavenger hunt team experience with a youth org in NJ.
April 14th, 2012, Video credit Adya Beasley and Bumper DeJesus