Landscape Poetry

Students will:

• Define landscape while reflecting on landscapes they see in daily life

• Learn about depictions of landscapes in Chinese visual art and poetry

• Describe landscapes by considering emotions, natural and built environmental features, and different sensory details

• Write their own descriptive poems about a landscape

• Pencil

• Three poems by Wang Wei, from Wang River Collection

• Landscape poetry worksheet

• Touch object (for physical toolkit): bamboo brush

• Reproduction (for physical toolkit): Hua Yan, Landscape, 1727