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.
My Life is
Ruined
Hi! My name is Kerry. I am 20 years
old and I am infected with H.I.V. I got the disease earlier in life
when I was a teen trying to be so popular. I got H.I.V. by having
sexual intercourse at the age of fourteen. Right now I am about to
die from H.I.V. Before this, at the age of nineteen, I traveled to
places to talk to teens about H.I.V. and how they could get the
disease. Now people finally know that they can't get H.I.V. by just
shaking my hand or hugging me. But earlier in life they were more
afraid of me and afraid to come near me.
When I was fifteen the doctor told me
that I was infected with H.I.V. and that there was no cure for it. He
had to stick a big needle into my bone and get a biopsy of my bone
marrow. We figured that I got the virus when I was fourteen. That was
when I had sex with this one guy because I wanted to be so popular.
He was the one who infected me and was the cause.
When I was sixteen years old I was
feeling very depressed because I knew that I was infected with H.I.V.
and that nobody wanted me around them. Everyone was afraid if they
even came near me they might get the virus.
Then when I was seventeen I went to
an H.I.V. conference at a nearby city, and it was a lot of fun
talking to other teens who also were infected. I'd just graduated
with my high school diploma and that made me feel even better. And to
top it off, during my regular visit with my doctor he told me that I
was doing fine. I was feeling on top of the world.
When I was eighteen I visited my old
high school and talked to the students about H.I.V. and how it's
spread. After I told them about my life they asked me questions about
how I was feeling and how I got it. I also visited other schools and
public places to talk to teens and adults as much as I
could.
I still try to do this even though I
now have AIDS and am much weaker. I also have to go to the doctor
much more often now to have him check how my body is
doing.
By:
Jon Boots
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