Ideas for Creating Calendars

• The literacy group may like to present their oral history research to the community in calendar form.
• Elders’ stories or words of wisdom, community history, family history – many topics can be adapted to a calendar, combining photos and text opposite each month:
  • Archival photographs, and stories about the people in them, would make good calendar material.
  • You could collect stories about the seasons and times of the year to put on each month of the calendar.
  • You could research different Inuktitut names for the months and days in different regions and include information about the tasks traditionally done in each month in those regions. You could partner with a literacy group in another region to research this information.
• You could divide up the work so one individual, pair or small group takes responsibility for creating the calendar and oral history information for each month.
• Contact the Nunavut Literacy Council to request a calendar template. We can send it to you by e-mail or CD Rom. Or look for a calendar template on the computer. You could also make your own calendar format to practice computer skills.
• The facilitator teaches mini-lessons on the writing process, syllabic keyboarding, grammar and any other topics as they come up during the progress of the work.
• You could create your calendar in the fall for the new year and give calendars away as Christmas presents.