BRANDON UNIVERSITY
WILLIAM HILLMAN DAILY ITINERARIES FOR
THE BUNTEP COMMUNICATIONS COURSE 99.090
PUKATAWAGAN
 http://www.brandonu.ca/eduweb/puk/

JANUARY 7 – MARCH 1, 2002-01-14
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM Daily
Classroom opens at 8:30
Instructor and many students work through noon hour
in computer lab and/or classroom
Many stay after 3:30 for tutorage or work on computers usually till 4:30, often later

TERM ONE

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DAY 1: JANUARY 7, 2002 Monday

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INTRO: Intro self and expectations to class

COURSE OUTLINE: Distribute and discuss
Stress the importance of the areas READ, WRITE, LISTEN & SPEAK
Importance of attendance that will be taken by Ralph Caribou
EQUIPMENT: Introduce equipment I’ve collated from the school and BU ~ Sress these are the tools of the trade for educators and business people:
Photocopier, laptop computer, palette projector for overhead projector, overhead projector, opaque projector, iMac computer hooked to school network, projector with attached computer and VCR, printer, chalkboard
Distribute text THE BARE ESSENTIALS by Norton & Green ~ Harcourt Canada
Plan to study one chapter a day for 30 days. I will introduce giving rules and examples. Students will do exercises and correct self or each other’s work with key in back of book while instructor roams and gives advice.  Continual tests will monitor their success.
TEXT: UNIT I: SPELLING
CHAPTER I: SPELLIING SUGGESTIONS
Preparation for course diagnostic test (from the books accompanying tests, test A)
WRITING FOLDERS: Demonstrate how to adapt long manila folder into Writing Folders with pockets for rough and finished work, illustrated cover and name page front, contents page back
Outline the procedure of organizing all text exercises and marks in Writing Folder 1
Writing Folder 2 will contain creative writing and computer word pro assignments
JOURNAL: Issue Journal Assignment 1: Student Autobiography with many stimuli headings.

TEST: Administer Diagnostic Test A from Text Test Pool
TEXT: CHAPTER 2: LOOK ALIKES presentation and assignments
COURSE OUTLINE in more detail with aid of student printout copies and projection of laptop screen
PRETEST UNIT I
IMPORTANCE ENGLISH COMMUNICATION: Series of OV transparencies to demonstrate and promote discussion of the evolution of English language with the important contributions of every ethnic group including Native Americans … esp: wildlife and place names
JOURNAL 2: Frustrating day assignment to add to the student bio

TEXT: CHAPTER 3: CAPITALS intro and work session
PBS THE STORY OF ENGLISH part 1: Video projection
Stress that English is the Universal Language (of government, entertainment, air travel, technology & computers, etc.)
JOURNAL 3a: Listen, view and take notes from video. Use the 5Ws to write composition on the worldwide importance of the English language.
COMPUTER LAB & WORD PRO ORIENTATION
WEBPAGE INTRO: Demo of personal webpage layout via computer projector. Introduce plan for each student to present journal work on a class website.
JOURNAL 3b: Introduction of the  power of wordpro and basic rules of paragraph construction with the Sandwich Paragraph assignments distributed via the school network on iMacs.
IINTERNET ASSIGNMENTS: Procedures given on how to access and download assignments created and uploaded to Internet server by instructor the night before

TEXT CHAPTER 4: APOSTROPHE intro and work session
COMPUTER LAB MORNING SESSION: JOINT TEXT & INTERNET PROCEDURE: Students used new skills in Internet and Network use plus yesterday’s proofing and revision skills on computer to do the textbook exercises that instructor keyed and uploaded to Internet the night before.
DIAGNOSTIC TEST RETURNED: Discussion of strengths and weaknesses shown by test.
COMPUTER LAB AFTERNOON SESSION: file organization / word pro procedures
JOURNAL 4: “Animal that represents your personality” assignment to be added to personal autobio. One on one individual computer instruction.

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DAY 5: JANUARY 11 Friday

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TEXT CHAPTER 5: NUMBERS intro and work session
COMPUTGER LAB: WEBPAGE CREATION: Demo of how students can present writing on webpages using Netscape editor. Computer projector showed how all parts of a webpage are created and how wordpro text is imported.
CLASS WEBPAGE ASSIGNMENT INTRO: Outlined how student creative writing journals can be used as the basis for creating a COMMUNICATIONS CLASS WEBSITE. Demonstration on how free Netscape Editor can be used to create a webpage. Techniques in moving student writing on wordpro into webpage (HTML),
Techniques in adding backgrounds, graphics, photos, links, etc. to PUK webpages.
JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT 5: Student Autobio augmented with first person letter from ancestor in another time and another place. Handwriting or wordproing option.
THE NATIVE AMERICANS video wall projection: Writing Stimulus for Journal Assignment. Students viewed episode 1 of  6. NA NE Tribes and adapted ideas into their own “ancestor letter” letter.

Distribution of student interactive assignments put on hold as the phone line in BU Travelling Prof. Suite goes down with no MTS repair tech visit until January 21 (or later). This results in temporary collapse of use of downloaded website info and interactive assignments as Instructor has lost all after-hours contact with his home library resources, Internet refs. and BU administration.

WEEK TWO

STUDY and Q&A SESSION
MAJOR TESTS: UNIT ONE POST TEST and Chapters1-5 Post tests
COMPUTER LAB: Proofreading and revision techniques on last weeks paras.
Maintenance of student files and folders on school computer network. Students downloaded and saved the Journal assignments for Week 2 in their Computer Network folders.
Advance word on Pukatawagan WebPage Components field trip and community research project that students will work on during Instructor’s travel days.
JOURNAL 6: Personal conflict with nature incidents – to be integrated into student webpage  bios.

TEXT: CHAPTER 6: SENTENCE STRUCTURE Intro and work session
TEST RESULTS Return of test results on Unit 2 Post Test and Chapters 1-5 post tests. Entry into student records.
JOURNAL 7: Helpless southern greenhorn in the North assignment.

TEXT: CHAPTER 7: SENTENCE FRAGMENTS
COMPUTER LAB: Journal entries and proofing. In-depth description of the PUK PAGES Website project on student handout and computer file presented via school network.
VIDEO PROJECTION: NATION GEOGRAPHIC YUKON PASSAGE: Listening, note-making, discussion for tomorrow’s journal assignment

TEXT: CHAPTER 8: RUN-ON SENTENCES
Use today and tomorrow to complete the exercises
COMPUTER LAB: Time for Journal and Webpage Assignments
9:30 – 10:00 sharp
11:30 – 12:00 sharp
1:00 – 1:30 sharp
JOURNAL: From your notes on the National Geographic Yukon Passage video, write a description of the journey or incorporate many of the events into a narration where you describe a similar adventure that you have experienced.
GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL PLANNING SESSION: Discuss and plan how you are going to approach the Puk Journal and Webpage Research Project. Go over the topics fully. If time permits, finish the day by starting your fact-finding tour through the community.

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DAY 10: January 18, 2002 Friday ~ Prof Travel Day

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TEXT: Chapter 8: Complete all exercises started yesterday.
COMPUTER LAB: Journal writing and proofing assignments
10:00 – 10:30 sharp
11:00 – 11:30 sharp
JOURNAL AND WEBPAGE ASSIGNMENT:
Carry on with the Puk planning discussions, fact-finding, collating and writing of information. Complete all unfinished assignments from over the last two weeks.

WEEK 3

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DAY 11: January 21, 2002 Monday (Prof Travel Day)

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TEXT: Ch. 9: SOLVING MODIFIER PROBLEMS
COMPUTER LAB: 11-11:30 Journal and Webpage work
JOURNAL: Prepare the Autobiography /Puk Community Study and related class website assignments for display on the Class Webpages. Finish all loose ends, proofread each other’s work, revise, and carefully save this journal information into your personal computer folder.

Use any free time to complete any unfinished work from over the last two weeks!

TEXT: Ch. 10: THE PARALLELISM PRINCIPLE
Distribution of BU-supplied writing folders
REF: ROBERT SERVICE & CREMATION OF SAM McGEE overhead presentation
Northland poetry: Listen observe, note for observation test tomorrow
COMPUTER LAB: 11-12
JOURNAL: Describe the various burial ceremonies that are a part of your community’s traditions and culture.
REF: WHITE DAWN first half ~ Journal ideas: clash of Inuit and Western cultures
Afternoon viewing in preparation for tomorrow’s writing assignment:

TEXT: Ch. 11: REFINING BY COMBINING
REF: SHOOTING OF DAN McGREW overhead reading & discussion
Follow-up quiz
COMPUTER LAB All day: COMBINING SENTENCES & PROOFREADING WARM-UP: LETTER FROM THE FIELD, 1925-1975 by Margaret Mead (Anthropologist)
REF: WHITE DAWN conclusion ~ wall projection in computer room
JOURNAL: In the style of the Margaret Mead report, describe some “memorable” human conflicts that you have witnessed or of which you have been an active combatant. Try to include both serious and comical events.
DIGITAL CAMERA INTRO: Planning of Student ID photo session for BU ID cards
Discussion of how to integrate the camera photos into the website design for the PUK PAGES (after the –44 degree cold snap lets up)

TEXT: Unit II Tests: Progress and Post
REF: CALL OF THE WILD Chrono Log Pt. 1 ~ observation / Journal inspiration
COMPUTER LAB: 10-10:30 and 11-11:30
JOURNAL: Describe how your views and tastes - likes and dislikes - have changed during your journey through childhood, teen years and into adulthood. Some of the things you might touch on include: lifestyle – food - entertainment - music - movies - recreation - reading - friends - adults - teachers - school - world issues etc.

TEXT: Unit III Pre-Test on Grammar
CHAPTER 12: CORRECT VERB FORMS intro and exercises
REF: CALL OF THE WILD Chrono Log Pt. 2
Correct Chrono-Log Assignments and turn in for mark recording
COMPUTER LAB: 9:30-10 and 11:30-12 and 1-1:30
JOURNAL: Speculate on the pros and cons of leaving Pukatawagan to live in Winnipeg or some other major city.

WEEK FOUR

TEXT: CHAPTER 13: SUBJECT / VERB AGREEMENT ~ intro and exercises
COMPUTER LAB: DAY 4: 10-1030 and 11-11:30
IMAGINATION GENERATOR: A MAN CALLED HORSE
JOURNAL WRITING REMINDER:
Keep all your rough pre-writing notes on file until your final draft is approved. Proofread all your work constantly!  Revise! Revise! Revise! Revise! Good writing is 90% revision.
FULL PARAGRAPHS ARE REQUIRED!!! - Be sure you have answered all questions fully. Your paragraphs should stand alone - should make sense to the reader - without having to read the question/directions. Any paras not completed in the word processor printout MUST be hand written - one per numbered page – AND clearly indicated in your folder contents.
A FULL PARAGRAPH MUST CONTAIN:
* An opening TOPIC sentence which introduces the theme of your para
* Numerous DEVELOPING/SUPPORTING sentences exhibiting unity and coherence
* A CONCLUDING sentence
Swap with colleagues and proofread each other's work - indicate all errors with ***** - do not revise their work - rather, point out all flaws and make suggestions in [UPPER CASE LETTERS IN BRACKETS].
REVISE...REVISE...REVISE!!! Craft your paragraphs to meet the evaluation requirements which have been presented at the beginning of this document.
TODAY’S JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT
(eventually this may be added to your PUK WEBPAGE)
Prophesy what life will be like on Northern Reserve 40 years from now.

TEXT: CHAPTER 14: CONSISTENT TENSES ~ intro and exercises
COMPUTER LAB: DAY 5: 11-11:30
JOURNAL: Keep expanding your autobiography. Enter a brainstorming session with other members of your table group in which you try to come up with topics to expand your ongoing autobiography project. For example:  What are...your three best characteristics? ...your three worst? What people or events have been significant in your life? ...Why? Of what accomplishments are you proud? What are your goals and ambitions? Etc.

TEXT: CHAPTER 15: CORRECT PRONOUN FORMS ~ intro and exercises
COMPUTER LAB: DAY 6: 11-12
JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT: Add to your autobiography by writing about some memorable place or time in your childhood.
SUGGESTIONS: -Use your prewriting time for this assignment to concentrate on generating or inventing ideas - start by thinking about your childhood. -Try concentrating on places and times that were safe or frightening. -This should help you decide the topic for the assignment. Then think about reasons for wanting to write about a particular place or time - through this you should discover your purpose for writing the assignment, and your main claim or thesis. -Next list as many details (supporting evidence) as you can about your topic, using all your senses to recall it: sight, sound, smell, taste, touch. -Do not be concerned about the order of your list - this prewriting is just for you. When you start your writing keep in mind who is going to read your assignment - you must know who your audience will be so that you may consider how you will recreate your experiences for your reader. You should also consider the format of this assignment. Because you are doing this assignment to familiarize yourself with the writing process, feel free to write a paragraph, essay, or letter.

TEXT: CHAPTER 16: PRONOUN / ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT (continued to Friday’s session)
COMPUTER LAB: DAY 1  11-12
JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT: PUK WEBPAGE PROJECT NO. 2
In today’s exploration of the Pukatawagan settlement, make notes on the following:

Use two columns to describe everything you see through two different POVs (points of view). First, as a newcomer to the North would record and interpret the sights and sounds of the settlement. . . then, as you, an experienced native of the North, would see these places, things and events.

Follow up this piece of work by writing well-thought-out paragraphs extolling the virtues of Northern and wilderness living over life in “The South” . . . and vice versa.

Include a list of recommended photo subjects to illustrate your observations. Your instructor will use these recommendations when illustrations are added to the webpage.

Expand your notes into full sentences and paragraphs and incorporate this information into your research paper that will be featured on the class website.

TEXT: CHAPTER 16: PRONOUN / ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT (continued from Thursday session)
COMPUTER LAB: DAY 2: 10-10:30 and 11-11:30
JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT: PUK WEBPAGE PROJECT NO. 3
Prepare two sets of in-depth interview questions that would be appropriate to ask of two groups of residents of Pukatawagan: The Elders and the “New Generations.”

Expand your notes into full sentences and paragraphs and incorporate this information into your research paper that will be featured on the class webpage.
 
 

END OF MONTH ONE ~ MIDTERM EXAM ON TUESDAY
Turn in Text Book Writing Folder with Contents and Marks Table
Turn in Creative Journal Writing Folder with Contents

TERM TWO See the file www.angelfire.com/trek/puk/comterm2.html

 

BUNTEP COMMUNICATIONS COURSE 99.090
William G. Hillman

REQUIRED TERM ONE WRITING ASSIGNMENTS CONTAINED IN CREATIVE JOURNAL 2

DAY	JOURNAL TOPICS AND DIRECTIONS WEEK ONE	FOLDER Page No.	COMPUTER File Name
1	1. STUDENT AUTOBIOGRAPHY based on given headings & group suggestions	.	.
2	2. FRUSTRATING DAY (incorporated into bio)	.	.
3	3a. STORY OF ENGLISH and 3b. SANDWICH PARAGRAPHS	.	.
4	4. ANIMAL THAT REPRESENTS YOUR PERSONALITY (add to bio)	.	.
5	5. LETTER FROM AN ANCESTOR  in another time and another place (add to bio)	.	.
.	WEEK TWO	*****	*****
6	6. PERSONAL CONFLICTS WITH NATURE (add to bio)	.	.
7	7. HELPLESS SOUTHERN GREENHORNS IN THE NORTH (possible bio entry)	.	.
8	8. SUSPENSEFUL EVENT(Puk & Bio Webpages planning day)
9	9. NORTHERN JOURNEY DESCRIPTION (possible bio entry)	.	.
10	(Puk & Bio Webpages planning day) (notes in pre-writing packet)	*****	*****
.	WEEK THREE	*****	*****
11	(Puk & Bio Webpages planning and research day) (notes in pre-writing packet)	*****	*****
12	10. BURIAL TRADITIONS (add to PUKPAGE)	.	.
13	11. PERSONAL CONFLICTS (add to bio)	.	.
14	12. YOUR CHANGING VIEWS & TASTES ~ Childhood to Now (add to bio)	.	.
15	13. PROS & CONS OF LEAVING PUK FOR THE CITY (add to PUKPAGE)	.	.
	WEEK FOUR	*****	*****
16	14. LIFE ON A NORTHERN RESERVE 40 IN YEARS (add to PUKPAGE)	.	.
17	15. MEMORABLE PLACE and/or TIME FROM CHILDHOOD (add to bio)	.	.
18	Group discussion planning to expand your bio (in pre-writing packet)	*****	*****
19	Contrasting views of PUK planning notes (add to PUKPAGE) (in pre-writing packet)	*****	*****
20	Interview notes with Elders and New Generation (in pre-writing packet)	*****	*****
.	END OF PART ONE OF THE BUNTEP COMMUNICATIONS COURSE	.	.

 

This is the half-way mark in the COMMUNICATIONS course.
At this point both Folders 1 and 2 should be ready to be presented for course credit.
All assignments must be clearly labeled.
Use this CONTENTS FORM to indicate where the assignments may be found in the folders or computer files.

Much of your credit in Part 2 of the course will be derived from the way
you have expanded, collated, proofread and revised the Autobiography and Puk Research projects
for the class and personal web pages.

http://www.angelfire.com/trek/puk/folder.html

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PUKATAWAGAN
WEBSITE RESEARCH PROJECT Pt. 1

Use today’s allotted class time away from the classroom to explore Pukatawagan.

Take a sketch pad and notebook (along with camera, if possible) and gather research on the topics below.
(Include MAP SKETCHES and PERSONAL SKETCHES)

LOCATION ~ SITE
FAMOUS LANDMARKS & HISTORICAL EVENTS
TRANSPORTATION: In and Out ~ Internal
SERVICES & UTILITIES: Sewer ~ Water ~ Heat ~ Power ~ Garbage ~ Emergency Services ~ Maintenance, etc.
STORES
HOMES
ENTERTAINMENT & SOCIAL EVENTS: TV ~ Radio ~ Cultural Celebrations ~ Sports
OCCUPATIONS & LIVELIHOOD
TRADITIONS
PROBLEMS
LIKES

Include a list of recommended photo subjects to illustrate your observations. Your instructor will use these recommendations when illustrations are added to the webpages.

Expand your notes into full sentences and paragraphs and incorporate this information into your research paper that will be featured on the class webpage.

PUKATAWAGAN
WEBSITE RESEARCH PROJECT
Pt. 2

In today’s exploration of the Pukatawagan settlement, make notes on the following:

Use two columns to describe everything you see through two different POVs (points of view). First, as a newcomer to the North would record and interpret the sights and sounds of the settlement. . . then, as you, an experienced native of the North, would see these places, things and events.

Follow up this piece of work by writing well-thought-out paragraphs extolling the virtues of Northern and wilderness living over life in “The South” . . . and vice versa.

Include a list of recommended photo subjects to illustrate your observations. Your instructor will use these recommendations when illustrations are added to the webpage.

Expand your notes into full sentences and paragraphs and incorporate this information into your research paper that will be featured on the class website.

PUKATAWAGAN
WEBSITE RESEARCH PROJECT
Pt. 3

Prepare two sets of in-depth interview questions that would be appropriate to ask of two groups of residents of Pukatawagan: The Elders and the “New Generations.”

Expand your notes into full sentences and paragraphs and incorporate this information into your research paper that will be featured on the class webpage.
 

COMMUNICATIONS HOME PAGE

http://www.brandonu.ca/eduweb/puk/
 

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