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.
Kerry's
Story
As I sat in my room looking out the
window watching my friends having fun I wished that I wouldn't have
gotten the virus. If I hadn't gotten it I would have been out having
fun like all the others. Then I began to think back in my past when I
first found out I had the HIV virus. Tears began running down my
cheeks as I thought about it.
When I was 15 years old I was out
with my friends having fun as usual. We walked around and stopped at
the playground to talk. One of my friends changed the subject and
started talking about drinking and having drugs. All my friends tried
to convince me to join them but I told them I had to be home before
it got too late. I noticed they were disappointed because I didn't
join them, so I told them I'd have a little. We went to an apartment
and started drinking and smoking marijuana slowly. As it got late,
everyone was getting drunk, including myself.
A couple of weeks later I went to the
clinic to check if I had anything wrong with me. A week later when I
found out I had the HIV virus, I cried. I couldn't believe it, but
the doctor told me it was true, I had the virus. I stayed at the
clinic for a while asking her questions. The first question I asked
was, "How long will I live while I have this virus?" And she said,
"About five to ten years. That's the longest you can live." I started
crying again and I asked them, "Will anyone notice what I have?", and
they replied, "I don't think so."
A couple more days went by and I
called up one of my friends to see how she was doing. We talked on
the phone for an hour and forty-five minutes. When I told my friend
that I had the virus, she never said anything for two and a half
minutes. I asked her what she thought and she said that she was sorry
for what happened. "What do you mean?" I asked. She answered, "What I
mean is that I'm sorry to hear that you have the HIV virus." When I
asked her if she'd come and visit sometime, she said she was going to
move to another city. I knew that was just an excuse and that she
didn't really want to visit me because she was afraid she might catch
the virus.
Every day after that I'd stay home in
my room looking out the window. My friends quit visiting me after I
told them. When people found out, they would look at me very
strangely. Sometimes when I was out for a little walk, I'd hear
people say, "She has HIV! We can't go close to her!" But I'd just
ignore them and keep on walking.
As the years passed, and I turned 21,
I decided to call one of my friends to see if she was still living
nearby. Her mom answered the phone and asked who was calling. I told
her it was me, and she didn't say anything for a while. When I asked
her if she was still there she inquired how was I doing. I told her I
was still the same. She called her daughter and she came down to the
phone. She sounded surprised when she heard my voice. We talked on
the phone for an hour. After we hung up I went to my room and looked
out the window. A couple days later though, I started feeling weak. I
got into my bed and looked out the window. It had started snowing.
Later that night my breathing began slowing down. Then I saw double
and suddenly everything went black!!
Kathy
Duny
Among sexually active
college
students, anonymous testing
showed one of 500 had HIV.
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