Topic/Theme

Haiku

Project/Artifact

Matsuo Basho Essay

Essential Questions

• What is the purest version of a thought that can be put into words?

• What are the fundamental elements of an academic essay?

• Why should the academic essay have a form, and what is that form?

• What is the difference between details and analysis?

Project Description

Write a brief essay that uses the Matsuo Basho haiku, “year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.

Project Instructions

• Write a paragraph of no less than 150 words for which ”year after year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey” is your thesis statement.

• At the top of your page, add “Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey”.

• Color each sentence in your paragraph: blue if it is a detail and red if it is analysis.

• Find three details on the internet that support your analysis.

• Add two of your details to your paragraph.

• At the bottom of your page, list the websites where you found your details.

Outcomes

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Resources

• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Ambrose Bierce

• The Story of an Hour - Kate Chopin

• If - Rudyard Kipling

• Magic - Bo Burnham

• The Tyger - William Blake

• Susuki & Dragonflies - Satoru Sato

• American Haiku - Jack Kerouac

• For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid - William Stafford

• No Room for Form - Rumi

• America - Allen Ginsberg

• Animal Tales - Simon Rich

• "Year by Year, the Monkey's Mask Reveals the Monkey." - Matsuo Basho Haiku

• On the Problem of Form - Wassily Kandinsky

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