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.
Something
New
I was in one of the most boring
classes of my junior year. Thank god it was almost Christmas
vacation.
While I was spacing out on something
else, an unfamiliar face walked in and looked around the classroom.
Who is that, I wondered? Then the old grumpy teacher, Mr. Jinx, said, "Oh, uh, class, this is Jeremy Cage. He is the new student you
students have heard about. Why don't you have a seat and get familiar
with your surroundings." Jeremy sat down and looked around. He payed
attention like he was doing the work too. "Look at him," said Jerome.
"What a dark!" said Shale.
Jeremy was the first colored student
who had gone to that school in years. And everybody acted differently
towards him. But even though I felt sorry for him I had to act like I
was ignoring him. It was hard for me to do. Nobody liked talking to
him, except the teachers. When people walked by him they would look
at him like he was from outer space. Then finally I got the guts to
ask where he lived. He told me, and it wasn't too far from where I
lived. I smiled and walked off. I planned to go visit him after
school, even though I knew what people might say to me while I was at
school. They would make fun of me and put me down because I'd talked
to someone that the students had decided not to talk too.
After school I went home and thought
some more about visiting Jeremy. I talked to my mom about the other
students' behavior towards the colored boy. She told me not to mind
them because they would always cause trouble. After we had a long
talk about racism and peoples' actions I made my risky decision to
visit Jeremy. I didn't care whether other people talked about me. l
wanted to show I wasn't like some of the other students from
school.
I walked down the street and looked
for the apartment that Jeremy was staying in. There were so many
different kinds of apartment buildings and they all looked alike, so
it took me a while to find it. When I finally found it I rang the
door bell. His mother answered the door. She looked young and very
nice. She politely said, "Hi, may I help you?" "Yes," I said. I'm
looking for your son, Jeremy. I told him that I would be over after
school, and I was wondering if I could come in and see him?" She
called upstairs and told Jeremy that
he had a visitor. He came down and asked if I would like to come in.
I gladly walked in and looked around. We sat in the living room and
talked about life in San Diego. Jeremy told me about the school that
he had gone to in Boise, Idaho. He had the same problem there. I
asked him if he wanted me to show him around the block. He agreed and
we went out. I didn't really care if people saw us or not because I
was having a good time talking to him.
The next day at school everybody was
looking at me like I was from outer space too. When Jeremy got to
school I showed him where his class was and then went to mine. By
then I really didn't care what people said about me or to me. During
lunch Lisa asked me what I was doing with the nigger. So I told her
all about him and how easy he was to talk to. She became so curious
she wanted to meet him, so I introduced them. She found that he
wasn't so bad after all. Somehow by the end of the day most of the
students were a lot kinder to Jeremy. They had learned that they
shouldn't judge people by the color of their skin.
Cheryl
Hunter
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 |
|
| M&M Monthly |
|
|
| 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