Laukapalili O Kulukuluua Summer Program 2008


The HawCC HLS Mahiʻai program partnered up with Randal McEndree of the English department to put together a learning community of Hwst 160 (Mahiʻai I) and Eng 21 (Reading). It was an intensive 3 week course which included several field trips to different areas of Hawaiʻi Island that helped to reinforce curriculum and lectures taught in the classroom. We visited places like Pākolea in Kohala where we helped the Ah Sam ʻohana mālama their loʻi. We also went to Waipiʻo valley where we met taro practitioners and helped in opening up ancient water systems that fed the valley patches. Amongst the different trips and activities of planting kalo and rock wall building, Randal would lecture, demonstrate and or prepare lessons that would help students become better readers. Randal used information and resources that were used for Mahiʻai I as the lessons for reading. It really helped to reinforce and establish the information within the student. The capstone project was the class’s hōʻike where the students were asked to demonstrate and show the amount of information that was acquired within the 3-week period.