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.
Unexpected
Divorce
One day on a beautiful summer morning
when I woke up everything was great for me. It was nice and quite and
warm in the house, breakfast was on the table and still warm, and the
sun was just coming out from behind the hills. I opened the curtains
to get some light into the house and it felt so good to get up early
and see the sun reflecting off the ponds of water and to see the
swallows swoop through the air. As I sat down to eat my breakfast and
watch the birds my mom woke up and said, "Good morning, boy!" She
decided to have breakfast with me and told me about her dream. I
found her dream pretty funny. As I enjoyed having a conversation with
my mom, I decided to turn on some good slow country music. It made
the whole morning even more relaxing. After I relaxed for a while I
realized that I needed to do some cleaning outside the house. I went
out to pick up a couple of pop cans and get some logs from the pile
of wood.
When I went back into the house my
mom was pretty upset. I asked her what was wrong, and she said that
she just got a call, and dad was in jail! I didn't know what to say.
I wanted to ask her if she could bail him out but then I knew she
wouldn't because she was mad. But he was my dad and I didn't want him
to stay in jail. He was shopping in Nome and I guess he just wandered
off to a friend's place and decided to drink.
Not only did he get arrested for
drinking, though. He also got arrested for criminal trespass and
assault in the 4th degree. And this time my mom didn't want to put up
with my dad's nonsense. She was tired of telling him not to do this
and that, so she decided to divorce him. It really hurt me and my
sisters because all our teen years they were the only family we
had.
After my dad got out of jail, he came
back home but never stayed with us again. My mom hated him for what
he did. And she didn't want to go back to him again. Half a year
later my dad moved somewhere else and we don't know where he is now.
He still calls us to see how we're doing, though. And we still love
him as our father, although in a way we hate both our parents for how
they made us feel like we were no longer a family. Everything wasn't
normal anymore the way it used to be. We just wished that we could
reunite and go back to being a family again. It also made us so
uncomfortable because everyone knew what had happened. It was hard to
live without a father.
By:
Jackie Paul George
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 |
|
| 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 |
Marshall
Cultural Atlas