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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 at the beginning of May during Frank's class we all went out to look for bees. We searched all over town. We caught three bees, and we brought them to class and put them in a jar. Then we all went home. All except me. I stayed in the class room to feed the bees. But I didn't know what they ate. So I fed them some kind of mixture from Frank's desk. Then I went home.

I didn't realize that what I fed the bees would make them grow to be 17 feet long.

While some of my friends and I were hanging out by the school we hears something strange in Frank's class room. So we all went to look in the window. Then we saw the bees! They were so big! And we got so scared we ran all the way down town to telll the cops that we needed their help. But they didn't believe us. So we ran home because the monster bees had escaped and were after us. Then we tried to get our guns to kill the monster.

When one of the bees ate one of my uncle's dogs he got so mad that he killed one of them with an axe. Then he came in the house and told us to go home. But we told him there were two more bees out there. He asked us where, and we told him they were by the school. But when we went up to look for them they were gone. And we never saw them again. Who knows what happened to them? Maybe we'll see them again next summer. Or maybe they'll see us first, somewhere.

By Yvonne Evan

The Monster Bee

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