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.
Problems
I am Matt Grady. When I was growing
up, even though my family wasn't perfect I used to think it was
pretty good. But I later understood that my family was what some
people called dysfunctional and abusive. When I did even the
slightest thing wrong I would get a terrible beating.
My parents were Bill and Anna
Robinson. I also have a younger sister, Sarah. At that time I was
only ten and my sister was six.
Sometimes my stepfather would beat me
and I would end up having so many bruises on my face I didn't even
want to see my friends. And when the teachers asked what happened I
would say I fell or got in a fight. I spent most of my time with my
sister to make sure nothing happened to her. Sometimes during the
night I would hear my parents fighting, and I would go spy on them
and watch from the corner of the stairs. Once in a while I would hear
a slap like someone was hitting a pound of beef, and the next day my
mother would have a bruise on her face.When we had some time to talk
I asked her to leave him. But she always said it was her fault even
though I would hear my stepfather drunk and knew he had started all
the fights.
It continued like that for a couple
more years. When Bill got drunk and things got very bad my mother,
sister and I would leave Bill and go hide at my grandparent's house.
My grandparents, Richard and Jenny Grady, lived in the country
outside of Seattle. They had a farm there with some animals. I liked
to visit their farm because they taught me how to ride some of their
horses. My grandpa also liked to take me out fishing.
Over the past three years we went to
my grandparents about four times to hide out. I enjoyed going there
to visit and to get away from that maniac. While we were there he
would keep calling and saying it would never happen again, but it
never stopped. Sometimes when we didn't answer he would come looking
for us and my grandpa would have to send him away.
Now I am 17, and last year I finally
got tired of him and his violence. I beat him up so bad I broke his
arm and told him never to come back. And to this day we have not
heard from him except a couple of times when he paid his child
support.
By
Garrett Evan
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