• Write a pisiq or song. Find examples of pisiit; many of them tell stories. Listen and use them as models to tell the stories you learned in your oral history project.
• Look back at the lists of Inuktitut or Inuinnaqtun vocabulary you have learned during your oral history project. Put these words and phrases together to make a poem.
• Write poems about the months and the seasons and the activities that happen each month.
• Write group poems. Each person in the group thinks of a phrase to start a poem: eg. Peace is..., Culture is..., Love is..., Family is..., Survival is... Write the phrase on a piece of paper. Then exchange papers and write live or six line poems in which each line begins with the phrase you received. Or each person writes one line of each poem and then passes the paper to the next person.
• Make shape poems. For example, if the poem is about an inuksuk, write the poem in the shape of an inuksuk or if it is about a star, place the lines to form the shape of a star. Or... Draw a picture in the centre of a round circle of paper; write the poem that goes with the picture in a circle around the edge of the paper.

Poetry by Nunavummiut

The Yearling
They call me master
These four seasons of mine
Come, I will show you

Meet Father Winter
North Wind – I call him
Blizzard is his profession
He leads

Then comes Mother Spring
Sunrise – she answers to
She is the centre of all activities
A reason for winter

Next is Daughter Summer
Climax! She always does
She nurtures all offspring
Even plants multiply

Last comes Son Fall
Action – he never questions
Just a yearling – young and willing
He will lead someday

Mush! Four seasons of mine! Mush!

by Emil Arnalak
Arviat, Nunavut