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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.

 

 

 

 

It was a Whopper!

 

This last summer I went out rod and reeling a lot with Jackie and some other friends. When we went we wouldn't have enough rods for each one of us to use so the people without rods would just watch the others while they caught fish. Sometimes it would get very boring for me but I wouldn't show it to the others, or I would just go with them for the ride.

One time we went way inside Wilson Creek to check for some more fish and we saw lots of dead spawned-out salmon on the back side of the creek. We were grossed out by the smell because it was so strong. When we got further up the creek it was shallow enough to see the fish swimming by. I was thinking that we could just use a sharp pointed stick or something to stab them, and we would have fish to eat or give to the dogs if they looked too old. While we were there we saw a beaver. It was cool to watch him swimming under the water because you hardly ever see animals like that in a very shallow creek.

The very last time we went up there was when Jackie, Walter, Nus, and I went together. We all had rods this time. Before we started rodding, Jackie asked me if I wanted to fish with them. At first I didn't really want to, but when he told me that usually people who rod for the first time catch fish, I tried for the very first time in my life. I know it sounds pretty weird but it was actually my first time trying to catch a fish.

When we started Walter was the first one to catch a fish, then Jackie, then after a while I finally caught the first fish in my whole life which was a white fish. When I was reeling the fish in it started to struggle, and I got kind of excited and scared at the same time, and I asked Jackie to help me, which he did. I think when you go rodding in a narrow creek you don't catch very big fish, and that was the only time I caught one. And it was only about a foot long. If I had started fishing when I was younger, I would probably have a more exciting story than this one. But this is the only story I have about the biggest fish I ever caught.

Tatiana Sergie

It was a Whopper!

Biggest Fish in the World

- Jack George

A Good Fight

- Charlotte Alstrom

It was a Whopper!

- Tatiana Sergie

My Biggest Fish

- Willie Paul Fitka

A Real Fighter!

- Jonathan Boots

Three Big Fish!

- Cheryl Hunter

Thirty Thrilling Seconds

- Rose Lynn Fitka

 

Fishy Research Student Whoppers Parent Whoppers Elder Whoppers
Staff Whoppers Adventures Under the Sea Global Warming The Crystal Ball--Imagining how it will be

 

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

 

 
 

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