I. Introduction / activity
• Intro class activity: monotype prints based on a poem by Haunani Trask
• Lecture/demo: map conventions, western and non-western; vertical and horizontal land divisions
• Class Activity: Wayfinding group activity with a compass
• Essay: Pua Kanahele in Wao Akua
• Video: Rabbit-Proof Fence
II. Ways of Knowing
• Lectures: I and Thou, Martin Buber, Aristotleʻs Great Chain of Being
• Essay: The Rediscovery of North America, Barry Lopez
• Essay: “The Wilderness,” Gary Snyder
• Poem: “What Happened Here Before,” Gary Snyder
• Class activity: modeling
• Video: Walkabout
III. Hi‘iakaikapoliopele (beginning)
Field trip: Visit to Pōhaku o Kaua’i at Ka’ena Point
IV. First Peoples
• Essay: “The Way to Rainy Mountain” (Intro essay), N. Scott Momady
• Autobiography: Black Elk Speaks, recorded by John Neihardt
• Video: Skins or Smoke Signals; Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (PBS series)
V. Environmental issues / mini research unit
• Lecture: summarizing, paraphrasing and quoting
• Research notes: The Guardian; www.truthout.org/environment
• Video: Koyanaasquatsi
VI. Some Poetry
Light in the Crevice Never Seen, Haunani Trask
Website: http://www.sakakini.org/
Class Activity: group illustration/presentation of a poem
VII. Hi‘iakaikapoliopele (O’ahu section)
Field Trip: Makapu‘u to Kahana (various places connected to the Oʻahu section of the moʻolelo)
RECURRING CLASS ACTIVITIES NOT CONNECTED TO ANY ONE UNIT:
• Land Journals (bi-weekly)
• Sentence Combining
• Modeling
• Sentence Corrections