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Yup'ik Raven This collection of student work is from Frank Keim's classes. He wants to share these works for others to use as an example of culturally-based curriculum and documentation. These documents have been OCR-scanned and are available for educational use only.


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One day there was a bumble bee flying around in our house and it kept flying around in the house and bumping everything and making things fall every time it bumped. Sometimes it almost hit me and when it was about to sting me, I ducked down just in time before it bumped me. It was a kind of a big bumble bee and was flying fast all the time past us kids. It stung a few people, and they hurt but didn't cry at all. We tried to catch it but it was too fast to be caught. Sometimes it would be buzzing right in front of my face and the other kids' faces too. We started to throw things at it but we never hit it. Some of us almost hit it. It kept coming towards us but we couldn't catch it at all. We started to get branches to try and hit it, but it was too hard to hit. The next time it came near me, I tried to slap it but it was flying in too many different directions. I kept trying, and also my cousins, but it was too hard to hit. Only after it started to slow down a little bit and then landed in one place, and I hit it and then smashed it till it was dead. Then we felt sorry for it.

Jon Boots

The Bumble Bee

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