Marshall
Cultural Atlas
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.
Austin and his friend the Bear
Cub
One day a young 9 year old boy named Austin Roehl decided to take
a walk into the forest to look for unusual animals. He was a boy who
cared for animals, especially little animals. He didn't like it much
when he saw baby animals left to die with no parents.
While taking his weekly walk he saw the same old animals over and
over again. One day though he saw a baby animal that he had never
seen before. He had heard stories from people about what bears looked
like but he had never seen one. This little baby had the same
description as a bear cub: heavy, short when walking on his hind legs
and front legs, tall when he stands up to get something. Austin was
very amused to finally see how a baby bear really looked. But
something also looked wrong about this bear. He didn't look exactly
like a bear at all. This little bear was looking for food and crying
very loud like he was looking for his mother. Austin really wanted to
go up to the bear cub and pet it, but he remembered what his father
used to tell him about not going up to a bear cub just in case his
mother might be lurking around the corner. So Austin and the bear cub
just looked at each other in suspense, each one waiting for the other
to make the first move.
All of a sudden the cub talked to him. He said, "Why are you so
scared of me?" Austin replied, "I ain't, but ain't your mom around
the corner waiting to kill me so you guys can eat me for dinner?"
When Austin asked that question the cub started to cry. "My mother
was killed a day ago by a man just playing around trying to look big
and all for his girlfriend! So you don't say bad things about my
mother!" he said.
"So you're an orphan. Do you want to be my pet? If you will be my
pet I will give you a name, a good place to stay and all the food you
want to eat." All the cub could do was nod his head up and down.
"Well, okay, your name will be, hey wait a minute, are you a boy cub
or a girl cub?"
The cub answered, "I am a boy cub, of course!"
"Okay then, you didn't have to get mad at all! Your name
will be
Sterling, if that's okay with you? It's okay with me."
That day Sterling and Austin got to know each other very well.
They talked, played games and all the other things that friends do to
get to know each other. Finally, when it was getting late Austin
remembered his mother told him to be home in time for dinner, and he
and Sterling started walking towards home!
When they got there Austin told Sterling to wait outside
while he went in and got his parents to tell them the great news. When he
got
inside the house his mother asked him what new animals he had seen.
He didn't want to answer that question so he asked her where his dad
was? His mother said in the living room watching T.V. When Austin
went to get his dad, he said, "Come on dad, I have something to show
you and mom outside, hurry up, this can't wait forever."
His parents didn't really want to see what he brought home,
so
they walked out very sluggishly. And when his father, Jeff, saw what
Austin had brought home he told his wife to get back into the house.
He then ran over to his son and grabbed him by the arm. Austin
started screaming, and Sterling got very mad at his dad's reaction
and he started to charge Jeff. Jeff got really scared and left his
son alone. Austin then ran up to Sterling and gave him a really big
hug to try to calm him down. He said, "My dad was only trying to
protect me from you. He thinks that bears are mean and like to eat
people." Sterling understood and licked Austin's face and started
playing around. When Jeff saw what was going on, he started to laugh.
Then he got enough courage up to go outside and have fun with his son
and the bear cub.
As the years passed, Austin and Sterling became very close,
telling each other everything they had done and everything they heard
from other people. Austin fell in love with a girl named Melinda and
got married, and Sterling continued to be their pet. Soon though the
day would come for Sterling also to fall in love with another bear
just like himself. But until that day came they all would live
happily together.
By LaVerne Manumik
Creative Stories
from the
Imagination
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Bear Fire
Stories and Poems
about Bears
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by Marshall High School
Language Arts Classes
Spring, 1992
Produced
by
Information
about Bears
Creative
Stories from the Imagination
True
Stories from Experience
Poems
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 Valentines
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 |
Ravens
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 |
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