This collection of student work is from
Frank Keim's classes. He has wanted to share these works for others
to use as an example of Culturally-based curriculum and documentation. These
documents have been OCR-scanned. These are available
for educational use only.
Recovered From
Heroin
Hello! My name is Tyla, and once I
was really hooked on heroin. I was fourteen years old when I started
doing it. I remember it was on a weekend and a whole bunch of my
friends and I were at a party having fun. There were all kinds of
drugs there like cocaine, acid, angel dust, heroin and others. I
didn't want to try any drug, but I was forced to do heroin. A little
while later I started to feel high and it made me feel so good I
started doing it every time we had a party. Then I got hooked on the
stuff and had to have it every day. If I didn't have it, at first I
would get very grouchy then almost go crazy.
When my parents found out about it
they told me I could either quit or move out. So I decided to move
out and live on my own. If I had no money I could always go out and
be a hooker. Then I got pregnant from this guy. I kept his daughter
so I could get child-support money. And did I go crazy for heroin
after I started getting more money! I hardly bought my daughter
anything she needed. I would always have parties in my house and stay
with different guys. Then I got pregnant again when my daughter was
about six years old. I was even happier because I could get more
money from Uncle Sam. After I had my baby I would always let my older
daughter watch her little sister while I went out to parties and
slept during the day. In this way she learned how to take care of
babies on her own. Several times I landed in the hospital for
overdoses.
When my older daughter was a teen she
started hollering at me because I hardly bought them anything and
spent most of my money on drugs. And when I had no money left to buy
heroin I would always abuse my daughters. Then finally one day my
daughters got tired of me abusing them, and they told me how they
felt and how I had been hurting them.
Then I started thinking about it, and
finally I forced myself to go to a treatment center to try to quit
the drug. Although I've been drug-free for five years, I'm still
going to treatment centers as a counsellor to help other people quit
doing drugs. My oldest daughter graduated from high school and is now
attending college, and my second daughter is still in elementary
school. I would like to thank my daughters for straightening out my
life and I feel great being drug-free.
My advice to all you young teens is,
don't do drugs because it can mess up your life and education. If you
want to have fun, don't use drugs. You still could have fun without
using drugs, and it's a lot more fun being drug-free!
By: Tanya Peter
My name is
Kerry and I have
AIDS
(Now I'm dead!)
Going,
Going Gone!
Man and the
Environment
Christmastime Tales
Stories real and imaginary about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 1996 |
Christmastime Tales II
Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 1998 |
Christmastime Tales III
Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 2000 |
| Summer Time Tails 1992 |
Summertime Tails II 1993 |
Summertime Tails III |
| Summertime Tails IV Fall, 1995 |
Summertime Tails V Fall, 1996 |
Summertime Tails VI Fall, 1997 |
| Summertime Tails VII Fall, 1999 |
Signs of the Times November 1996 |
Creative Stories From Creative Imaginations |
| Mustang Mind Manglers - Stories of the Far Out,
the Frightening and the Fantastic 1993 |
Yupik Gourmet - A Book of
Recipes |
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| M&M Monthly |
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| Happy Moose Hunting! September Edition 1997 |
Happy Easter! March/April 1998 |
Merry Christmas December Edition 1997 |
| Happy Valentine’s
Day! February Edition
1998 |
Happy Easter! March/April Edition 2000 |
Happy Thanksgiving Nov. Edition, 1997 |
| Happy Halloween October 1997 Edition |
Edible and Useful Plants of Scammon
Bay |
Edible Plants of Hooper Bay 1981 |
| The Flowers of Scammon Bay Alaska |
Poems of Hooper Bay |
Scammon Bay (Upward Bound Students) |
| Family Trees and the Buzzy Lord |
It takes a Village - A guide for parents May 1997 |
People in Our Community |
| Buildings and Personalities of
Marshall |
Marshall Village PROFILE |
Qigeckalleq Pellullermeng ‘A
Glimpse of the Past’ |
| Raven’s
Stories Spring 1995 |
Bird Stories from Scammon Bay |
The Sea Around Us |
| Ellamyua - The Great Weather - Stories about the
Weather Spring 1996 |
Moose Fire - Stories and Poems about Moose November,
1998 |
Bears Bees and Bald Eagles Winter 1992-1993 |
| Fish Fire and Water - Stories about fish, global warming
and the future November, 1997 |
Wolf Fire - Stories and Poems about Wolves |
Bear Fire - Stories and Poems about Bears Spring,
1992 |
Marshall
Cultural Atlas