Introducing the Zombie Haiku Contest!
Time for zombie haiku. Try writing some of your own.
The best ones about zombies will win small but fun prizes and some extra credit!
These are due by the end of the school day on October 26.
Enter only your own, original work.
You may email them to Ms. Dorsey with the subject line Zombie Haiku and include your name and class period, or you may turn in a hard copy to your class top wire basket.
Enter only your own, original work.
You may email them to Ms. Dorsey with the subject line Zombie Haiku and include your name and class period, or you may turn in a hard copy to your class top wire basket.
The pattern for haiku is
3 lines:
5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables
Here are some Zombie haiku samples, by my teacher friend, Joe Anson:
“let’s give her a hand”—
zombie’s attempt to find a
snack for his daughter
watching The Walking
Dead reminds zombies of old
fam’ly videos
the hunger games are
undeniably zombie’s
favorite pastime
The pattern for haiku is
3 lines:
5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables
And here are some more examples --
And here are some more examples --
zombie haiku are
highly addictive ‘cuz they
get into your blood
beware, seventh grade!
Dorsey and other teachers
get into your brains
writing zombie 'ku
count syllables carefully
grades and brains at stake
--- Ms. D.