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.
If I were
Kerry...
I find myself sitting on my chair
every day thinking about my past, present and future. But I think
about my past more than anything else. At night I let my mind wander
and I start thinking of the day I found out I had the HIV
virus.
Since I was fourteen I've always
wanted to finish school and get a fairly decent job. I also wanted a
husband, someone I could talk to, someone I could have fun with, and
someone to love me. I wanted to have kids and watch them grow up and
have fun. And I wanted to see my grandchildren also. I was young,
though, and I didn't know any better. I should have asked about his
sexual background. I shouldn't have gone out with him in the first
place. Big mistake! Gosh I was even one of the most popular girls in
school. And I let that pervert take it all away from me! If I had a
chance I would go back and change things all over again, but I can't.
My mother was right. If only I had listened to her. My thoughts were
all wrong.
Anyway, one day when I was fifteen
there was this program in school about AIDS and the HIV virus. The
presenters told us about how we could get the virus and they repeated
over and over that there was no cure for it. They kept on talking and
I thought to myself that I wouldn't get the virus. I'm too careful.
Then I thought, just for the fun of it I would get myself checked.
But when I got the results a horrible feeling of terror and fright
came over me. I didn't think it was true until I saw Doctor Dew's
signature at the bottom of the page. And then I didn't know what to
do or how I would tell my mom. I didn't know what to tell my
boyfriend, either, or my other friends. Just thinking about how they
would act towards me and what they would think of me made me shudder.
The next day when I told my mom about the results, I just blurted it
out. She thought I was joking about it. But when I showed her the
paper with the results she could only tell me I should have listened
to her in the first place. Now I'll have to live with the
consequences for the rest of my life, however long that might
be.
My sixteenth birthday wasn't so
sweet, but I acted like it was. I had to go to the hospital for
therapy which didn't help much. I wanted to live a normal life like
everybody else. If I could only turn back the time, I thought. My mom
still talks to me about it, and it makes me mad because I really
don't like to think about it. My high school friends used to be
scared to be around me. They tried not to act like it, though, but I
knew just by looking at them, by the fright in their eyes and their
fake smiles. Sometimes I even scared myself. Just the thoughts of
death, of losing everybody, or of everybody losing me. How would my
parents feel, and my friends? And everybody that knew me? Doctor Dew
told me not to let it bother me. He said to just continue being
myself, and have fun. So I ignore what people say to me, even though
some people tell me such queer things.
Gosh, my whole life is destroyed. If
wishes could come true and dreams! If only I didn't have the HIV
virus!
By:
Cheryl Hunter
The
proportion of teenage girls with AIDS more than doubled between
1987 and 1994.
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