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
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Dangerous
Relationships
It all started with a party that I
was invited to on a Saturday night. The people who invited me told me
that it was going to be great, so I asked them if I could invite a
few friends of mine. They agreed and I called up a few of my friends
and asked if they wanted to go to a party.
The next day we all met at our
regular hang-out which was at a Chinese restaurant and we stayed
there until 7 o'clock when we drove over to the party. When we got
there we parked the car a few blocks away and walked to the house
because there were no parking spots anywhere nearby. As we approached
the house we could hear loud music, and when we opened the door
everyone was dancing and drinking and acting really wild. When we
went in we could see the place was trashed because of the huge
numbers of people there. Then somehow we got split up, and there were
so many people that trying to find each other in the crowd was almost
impossible.
After the party was over I noticed
one of my friends, Shelly, was gone. Somebody told me that she was
with some guy and that they took off before the party was over. The
next day when I saw Shelly I asked her where she had gone and she
told me that she'd met this nice guy named Gilbert who took her to a
movie. They got to know each other better and decided to go out
together again. I told her that I was really happy for
her.
For the next couple of weeks Shelly
and Gilbert were always together as a couple and it wasn't often that
we saw them apart. But as time went by we hardly saw Shelly anymore,
and she wasn't showing up at her job either. I was worried about her
and I asked her friend, Mary, if she could go and see if she was
okay.
Mary went over to Shelly's house and
when she asked her where she had been Shelly told her that she
couldn't go out because she had twisted her leg when she fell off a
stepladder.
After Mary told me Shelly was hurt I
decided to go visit her too. When I reached her house Gilbert's car
was parked out front and they were talking on the lawn. I watched
them talk for a while until suddenly Shelly's boyfriend grabbed her
and slammed her against the wall of the house and then started
slapping her. When I saw this I got really angry and ran over to
Gilbert and yelled at him to stop. But he didn't listen so I started
slugging the crap out of him. Shelly screamed for me to stop but I
was so mad that I didn't hear her. While Gilbert was down I went over
to Shelly and helped her into the house. Gilbert stumbled back to his
car and slowly drove away. Inside the house I asked Shelly what the
fight was all about and if he had been like this for a while. She
said, yes it had. But why didn't she call the cops, I asked, because
he shouldn't have done this to her. Shelly said she didn't know why.
She just put up with it
After a few months, Shelly got over
Gilbert and eventually found another boyfriend. This time she made
sure that he was a nice guy. But I told her if he turned out to be
like Gilbert to let me know about it and I'd teach him the same
lesson I taught Gilbert!
By
Robert Pitka
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