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.
Disastrous
Divorce
I remember the whole thing as if it
happened yesterday. I was 12 years old that summer and it started off
great because school was out and I could spend more time with my
friends. Everything was as it was supposed to be until one day after
a long day of running around and playing some games with my friends I
walked into our house and my parents were arguing fiercely. I got
scared because I had never heard my parents argue before, and I
yelled at them to stop. But they didn't notice that I was there for a
long while. Finally they heard me and they stopped yelling at each
other. But for the next couple of months they would argue
uncontrollably, and I was so scared of what was going to happen I
either stayed in my room or I was outside so I wouldn't have to
listen to them argue.
Then one day when I was playing
outside they both called me into the kitchen, and at the table they
told me that they were getting a divorce. As soon as I heard this I
ran to my room and started throwing my things around. I couldn't
believe what I had just heard because I used to think that we had the
best family in the world and this couldn't happen to us. Then they
walked into my room, and while I was lying on my bed they sat by me
and told me that it wasn't my fault they were doing this. It was
because they couldn't get along anymore and they had to be apart. I
felt a little better because I thought that it was me who had done
something wrong and that's why they were separating. But it didn't
change much because they were going to get a divorce anyway, and we
were going to be torn apart and wouldn't be a family
anymore.
After the divorce was settled I had
to stay with my mom, but I was glad that I was able to at least visit
my dad. I was mad at him because he had left us but I still loved him
because he was my father. As time went by, though, hardly visited my
dad, and about two or three years later I completely stopped visiting
him because he got remarried and had other kids to take care of. He
hardly paid attention to me anymore anyway. In time it felt like he
wasn't even my father, and because he acted like he'd forgotten about
us I grew to really hate him.
Six years after he was remarried he
had a heart attack and died. We attended his funeral and there we
really got to know his new family. I was really broken up that my dad
had died and I couldn't bring myself to accept that he was really
gone. I remembered when we were still a family and he was the one who
was always there for me.
To this day I wonder how we would
have been if my mom and dad hadn't gotten a divorce. But I know that
things happen for a reason and that sometimes two people aren't meant
to be together. I don't think of the pain of the divorce anymore,
though. I only think about the great memories of our togetherness
when we were still a family.
By Robert Pitka
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