Lucas Uqqila 空 · Lucy Aumaqpaq 悟 · 2026–2027
Lessons
Pick a unit, then pick a lesson. Each lesson tells you exactly what to read, write, watch for, and make — you can work through them on your own.
🌏 The Universe Reflected · 在天成象 · Weeks 1–6
Unit 1 · What Is Cosmology? — Patterns Written Twice
The sky, the I Ching line that names the whole year, Sila and Qilak, and how each tradition observes.
- Week 1What is the sky? — meeting the cosmosStart lesson →
- Week 2在天成象，在地成形 — what does it mean?Start lesson →
- Week 3Sila and Qilak — the Iñupiaq cosmosStart lesson →
- Week 4Observations of the sky — what do we see?Start lesson →
- Week 5The universe reflects — sky and earth connectionsStart lesson →
- Week 6Reflection — what patterns did we find?Start lesson →
🌏 The Universe Reflected · 在天成象 · Weeks 7–12
Unit 2 · The Sky as Calendar — Seasons and Time
The sun's path, the 24 Solar Terms, the Iñupiaq seasonal round, the moon and the tides.
- Week 7The sun's path — tracking the sunStart lesson →
- Week 8The 24 Solar Terms — the Chinese seasonal calendarStart lesson →
- Week 9The Iñupiaq seasonal round — ice, fish, caribou, berriesStart lesson →
- Week 10Moon phases — tracking the moonStart lesson →
- Week 11Comparing calendars — side by sideStart lesson →
- Week 12Reflection — how do we measure time?Start lesson →
🌏 The Universe Reflected · 在天成象 · Weeks 13–18
Unit 3 · The Stars as Guides — Navigation and Direction
北斗七星, Ullaktut the Runners, celestial navigation, and the stories that carry the knowledge.
- Week 13北斗七星 — finding the Northern DipperStart lesson →
- Week 14Iñupiaq star knowledge — Orion's Belt, the RunnersStart lesson →
- Week 15Using stars to find direction — simple navigationStart lesson →
- Week 16Constellations and stories — Chinese star legendsStart lesson →
- Week 17Iñupiaq star stories — oral traditionsStart lesson →
- Week 18Reflection — how do the stars guide us?Start lesson →
🌏 The Universe Reflected · 在天成象 · Weeks 19–24
Unit 4 · Celestial Events — Portents and Messages
The August 2026 alignment, 流星, Kiuguyat, and eclipses read by three traditions at once.
- Week 19The August 12 events — six planets, eclipse, meteor showerStart lesson →
- Week 20流星 — shooting stars, heaven's messengersStart lesson →
- Week 21Kiuguyat — the aurora, spirits dancingStart lesson →
- Week 22Solar and lunar eclipses — observing an eclipseStart lesson →
- Week 23What do celestial events tell us?Start lesson →
- Week 24Reflection — celestial events and meaningStart lesson →
🌏 The Universe Reflected · 在天成象 · Weeks 25–30
Unit 5 · Earth and Sky in Harmony — Cosmology in Daily Life
天人合一 and Sila as practice: planting, reciprocity, storytelling, and land-based learning.
- Week 25天人合一 in practice — harmony with natureStart lesson →
- Week 26Sila in practice — living with the breathStart lesson →
- Week 27Gardening with the cosmos — planting by the skyStart lesson →
- Week 28Restorative storytelling — stories of sky and earthStart lesson →
- Week 29Indigenous perspectives — connecting to the landStart lesson →
- Week 30Reflection — living in harmony with the cosmosStart lesson →
🌏 The Universe Reflected · 在天成象 · Weeks 31–36
Unit 6 · Integration — Three Eyes, One Cosmos
Comparing worldviews, the cosmos as teacher, and the year's culminating projects.
- Week 31Comparing worldviews — Chinese, Iñupiaq, WesternStart lesson →
- Week 32The cosmos as teacher — what we learn from the skyStart lesson →
- Week 33Project work — begin the Three-Eyed sky journalStart lesson →
- Week 34Project work — finalizing the journal and sky mapStart lesson →
- Week 35Project work — preparing to presentStart lesson →
- Week 36Celebration — share projects with familyStart lesson →
📜 Classical Literature · 四書五經 · Weeks 1–4
Unit 1 · What Is a Classic?
Where stories come from, how they are carried, and who decides which ones last.
- Week 1What is a classic? What makes a text "classic", and who decides?Start lesson →
- Week 2The nature of oral tradition — how knowledge is transmitted without a page.Start lesson →
- Week 3Written tradition — preservation and change; what writing keeps and what it loses.Start lesson →
- Week 4Nipaitsoq — listening beyond words as a discipline of study.Start lesson →
📜 Classical Literature · 四書五經 · Weeks 5–10
Unit 2 · Iñupiaq Oral Tradition · Unikkaaqtuat
Sedna, the Eagle Mother, the Messenger Feast — knowledge carried by voice, body, and drum.
- Week 5Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit — "what Inuit have known all along."Start lesson →
- Week 6Uinigumasuittuq — one origin story in many versions across Inuit Nunaat.Start lesson →
- Week 7The Messenger Feast — community, invitation, and gift-giving.Start lesson →
- Week 8Animal spirits — the relational ethics of living with animals.Start lesson →
- Week 9The oral impulse — relational, experiential engagement through sound.Start lesson →
- Week 10Critical reflection — Inuit values and worldview in the stories.Start lesson →
📜 Classical Literature · 四書五經 · Weeks 11–18
Unit 3 · Chinese Classical Canon · 四書五經
論語, 大學, 中庸, 詩經, 孟子 — reading as self-cultivation.
- Week 11The Four Books and Five Classics — historical context and transmission.Start lesson →
- Week 12論語 — key passages, and what a fragment-text asks of a reader.Start lesson →
- Week 13Social order — 己所不欲，勿施於人: do not do to others what you would not want done to you.Start lesson →
- Week 14大學之道 — illuminating virtue, renewing the people, resting in the highest good.Start lesson →
- Week 15中庸 — 天命之謂性，率性之謂道，修道之謂教.Start lesson →
- Week 16詩經 — poetry as moral, seasonal, and cultural expression.Start lesson →
- Week 17孟子 — the debate on human nature; 性善論 and its critics.Start lesson →
- Week 18Critical reflection — Chinese values and worldview.Start lesson →
📜 Classical Literature · 四書五經 · Weeks 19–24
Unit 4 · Western Literary Canon
Homer, Aesop, Shakespeare, Plato — and the argument about the canon itself.
- Week 19The Western canon — its history and the debate around it.Start lesson →
- Week 20Homer's Odyssey — the hero's journey and the cost of return.Start lesson →
- Week 21La Fontaine's Fables — "the stronger man's reasoning always carries the day."Start lesson →
- Week 22Shakespeare, King Lear — power, justice, and the undoing of a king.Start lesson →
- Week 23Plato's Republic — truth, justice, and the shape of a society.Start lesson →
- Week 24Critical reflection — Western values and worldview.Start lesson →
📜 Classical Literature · 四書五經 · Weeks 25–30
Unit 5 · Comparing Traditions
Three eyes, three canons: wisdom, virtue, endurance, and the good life.
- Week 25Comparative analysis — the same themes carried in different forms.Start lesson →
- Week 26Epistemological comparison — three ways of knowing.Start lesson →
- Week 27Ethical comparison — virtue, courage, compassion, filial piety.Start lesson →
- Week 28Canon formation — who decides what counts as a classic?Start lesson →
- Week 29Philosophical comparison — human flourishing in three traditions.Start lesson →
- Week 30Critical reflection — three eyes, one humanity.Start lesson →
📜 Classical Literature · 四書五經 · Weeks 31–36
Unit 6 · Reading with Three Eyes
Restorative storytelling, building a canon of our own, and the final projects.
- Week 31Reading with three eyes — applying the framework to a single text.Start lesson →
- Week 32Restorative storytelling — positionality, narrative, and whose voice tells it.Start lesson →
- Week 33Canon formation — who decides, and whose voices are heard?Start lesson →
- Week 34Project work — research and drafting.Start lesson →
- Week 35Project work — revision and finalising.Start lesson →
- Week 36Portfolio and presentation — present the year's work.Start lesson →
📖 ELA · 語文 · Weeks 1–6
Unit 1 · Leaving Fruitless Mountain
Chapters 1–10: the question of fortune, and the road out of the village.
📖 ELA · 語文 · Weeks 7–12
Unit 2 · The Dragon and the Journey
Chapters 11–20: friendship, courage, and giving something precious away.
📖 ELA · 語文 · Weeks 13–18
Unit 3 · What True Fortune Means
Chapters 21–48: the Green Tiger, the ancestors, and Minli's answer.
📖 ELA · 語文 · Weeks 19–24
Unit 4 · Character Journeys
Looking back at how Minli, the dragon, and the family change.
📖 ELA · 語文 · Weeks 25–30
Unit 5 · Themes & Folktales
Fortune, gratitude, identity — and writing folktales of our own.
📖 ELA · 語文 · Weeks 31–36
Unit 6 · Research & Celebration
Research, the multi-genre project, and sharing our work with family.
🦅 ELA 7 · Eagle Drums · Weeks 1–4
Unit 1 · Sila & the Sod House
Weeks 1–4: Chapters 1–6. Piña's family, the Arctic land, and the loss of Atau and Maliğu.
🦅 ELA 7 · Eagle Drums · Weeks 5–8
Unit 2 · Savik & the Long Waiting
Weeks 5–8: Chapters 7–10. The eagle god, the journey, and 46 knots of 候.
🦅 ELA 7 · Eagle Drums · Weeks 9–12
Unit 3 · Eagle Mother's Training
Weeks 9–12: Chapters 11–15. Song, drum, grief, and the lemming's lesson.
🦅 ELA 7 · Eagle Drums · Weeks 13–18
Unit 4 · Building the Qalgi
Weeks 13–18: Chapters 16–21. Leading, teaching, and raising the feast hall.
🦅 ELA 7 · Eagle Drums · Weeks 19–25
Unit 5 · Return & the Messenger Feast
Weeks 19–25: Chapters 22–25 and the origins of the Messenger Feast.
🦅 ELA 7 · Eagle Drums · Weeks 26–32
Unit 6 · Character, Theme & Research
Weeks 26–32: essays, Iñupiaq culture research, and folktale analysis.
🦅 ELA 7 · Eagle Drums · Weeks 33–36
Unit 7 · Project, Portfolio & Celebration
Weeks 33–36: multi-genre project, portfolio, and sharing with family.
🌱 Science · 節氣 · 7 solar terms
Summer 2026
Continuation of the action research project
🌱 Science · 節氣 · 6 solar terms
Winter 2026
Deep cold, snow, and the returning light
🌱 Science · 節氣 · 6 solar terms
Spring 2027
Waking, melting, and growing
🌱 Science · 節氣 · 6 solar terms
Summer 2027
Completing the full-year cycle
🎨 Art · 藝術 · Weeks 1-2
Unit 1 · Introduction to Three-Eyed Seeing in Art
Ken Lisbourne · 黃永玉 · Three-Eyed Seeing in art.
🎨 Art · 藝術 · Weeks 3-6
Unit 2 · Ken Lisbourne — Inupiaq Art from Point Hope
Ken Lisbourne · 黃永玉 · Three-Eyed Seeing in art.
🎨 Art · 藝術 · Weeks 7-10
Unit 3 · 黃永玉 — Chinese Art from Hunan
Ken Lisbourne · 黃永玉 · Three-Eyed Seeing in art.
🎨 Art · 藝術 · Weeks 11-14
Unit 4 · Comparative Art Analysis
Ken Lisbourne · 黃永玉 · Three-Eyed Seeing in art.
🎨 Art · 藝術 · Weeks 15-16
Unit 5 · Final Project & Exhibition
Ken Lisbourne · 黃永玉 · Three-Eyed Seeing in art.
🥁 Music & Dance · 樂舞 · Weeks 1–2
Unit 1 · Beginnings & Ancestral Ground
Weeks 1–2: what music and dance are, and where our two homelands sit on the map.
🥁 Music & Dance · 樂舞 · Weeks 3–9
Unit 2 · The Qiḷaun & the Whale
Weeks 3–9: the drum, the Eagle Mother, Nalukataq, and iluaq.
- Week 3Inupiaq Drum: The QiḷaunStart lesson →
- Week 4Invention: The Eagle MotherStart lesson →
- Week 5Drum Construction & MaterialsStart lesson →
- Week 6Drumming & the Whale HuntStart lesson →
- Week 7Celebration: NalukataqStart lesson →
- Week 8Dance & EmotionStart lesson →
- Week 9Iluaq: Wholeness & Well-beingStart lesson →
🥁 Music & Dance · 樂舞 · Weeks 10–15
Unit 3 · Hunan Huaguxi 湖南花鼓戏
Weeks 10–15: 放風箏, 討學錢, 七仙女, 比古調, and 劉海砍樵.
🥁 Music & Dance · 樂舞 · Weeks 16–18
Unit 4 · Semester 1 Project & Performance
Weeks 16–18: create, rehearse, and share with family.
🥁 Music & Dance · 樂舞 · Weeks 19–25
Unit 5 · Songs, Dance & Ceremony
Weeks 19–25: calling the whale, the Messenger Feast, and dance as identity.
- Week 19Review: Inupiaq Drum & DanceStart lesson →
- Week 20Songs & TraditionsStart lesson →
- Week 21Calling the Whale: Song as CommunicationStart lesson →
- Week 22Dance & the EnvironmentStart lesson →
- Week 23Messenger Feast & Eagle MotherStart lesson →
- Week 24Dance & CeremonyStart lesson →
- Week 25Iluaq: Well-being & IdentityStart lesson →
🥁 Music & Dance · 樂舞 · Weeks 26–30
Unit 6 · Huaguxi Revisited
Weeks 26–30: stories, values, spring joy, humor, and celebration.
🥁 Music & Dance · 樂舞 · Weeks 31–36
Unit 7 · Comparison, Research & Celebration
Weeks 31–36: comparing traditions, research, portfolio, and the year-end performance.
🌌 Astronomy · 天文 · Weeks 1–4
Unit 1 · The Sky Above
Weeks 1–4: three ways of seeing the sky, and learning to look up in silence.
🌌 Astronomy · 天文 · Weeks 5–8
Unit 2 · The Northern Dipper 北斗七星
Weeks 5–8: the Dipper as a celestial clock across Chinese, Iñupiaq, and Western astronomy.
🌌 Astronomy · 天文 · Weeks 9–12
Unit 3 · The Stars That Guide
Weeks 9–12: navigation, wayfinding, Ullaktut, and 牛郎织女.
🌌 Astronomy · 天文 · Weeks 13–16
Unit 4 · The 24 Solar Terms 二十四节气
Weeks 13–16: the rhythm of the year, read from the Dipper's turning handle.
🌌 Astronomy · 天文 · Weeks 17–20
Unit 5 · The Aurora · Kiuguyat
Weeks 17–20: spirits dancing in the sky, and the science of the solar wind.
🌌 Astronomy · 天文 · Weeks 21–24
Unit 6 · Shooting Stars
Weeks 21–24: messengers, souls, and burning stone.
🌌 Astronomy · 天文 · Weeks 25–28
Unit 7 · The Rainbow
Weeks 25–28: bridges between worlds, in myth and in light.
🌌 Astronomy · 天文 · Weeks 29–32
Unit 8 · Observing the Sky
Weeks 29–32: the Perseids, real data, and our place in the cosmos.
🌌 Astronomy · 天文 · Weeks 33–36
Unit 9 · Star Knowledge
Weeks 33–36: the sky as calendar, map, and memory — then celebration.