 Marshall
Cultural Atlas
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.
WHY
There was a girl name Geraldene. Her
parents were alcoholics. She didn't like it when her parents used to
drink almost every weekend and some weekdays.
Geraldene would go to school with
bruises on her back and arms,but she didn't try to use short sleeve
shirts or even complain.
Sometimes her classmates would bother
her when she went to school too late; they would call her a boy
because she had really short hair. But she didn't listen to
them.
One day after school her teacher
Mrs.McCall asked her, "Why are you late for school almost every day?"
She replied,"My parents always get up late." Mrs. McCall said, "Will
it help if I gave you an alarm clock? "Geraldene said,"No it's okay,
I can get up early." "You sure?" The teacher replied. "No thank you,
I'll be fine without one."
Then Geraldene walked out of her
classroom and walked home slowly.
She said to herself,"Why didn't I
tell Mrs. McCall the truth?"My parents won't love me anymore if I
told my teacher. "I guess it'll be better if I don't tell my
teacher." Geraldene was so confused that when she asked herself
questions she answered them wrong. She was only eight years old and
she didn't know what was the right choice for herself.
When she went back to her house, her
parents were drunk again. Her parents asked her,"How come you're home
so late, I thought you got out of school tweny minutes ago.Were you
taking to your teacher about us two drinking almost every day and why
you go to school late?"
Geraldene said,"No, I was counting
how many steps it would take from the school to the other end of the
village and then to here." Her mom
said, "Don't lie to us Gerri." "I'm not.You two won't believe me
because all you two do is drink.You don't know how I feel when you
drink. I feel I'm not wanted here." Geraldene started crying while
she was telling them.Her dad said,"Don't cry. You're big enough to
not cry."Her mom said,"Why didn't you keep your big mouth shut, she's
just a young girl!"
Then Geraldene ran out the door as
she cried, and ran into the thick woods. It was cold out, but she had
warm clothes on.
When she was far enough away she
started walking. There was a snow machine behind her so she kept on
walking faster and faster.
When the snow machine caught up, she
saw it was her teacher and her husband.
"What's wrong Gerri?" Mrs. McCall
asked."It looks like you were crying? Let us bring you home." "No,
I'm not going back to my parents, I hate them," she sniffed. "Why
don't we bring you to our house instead?" Mrs. McCall said. Geraldene
got on the snow machine with them and went to their house.
Her teacher gave her orange juice,
and three cookies. After she was done, Mrs. McCall, her husband and
Gerri played a game of Scrabble.
Her teacher told Geraldene she is was
a good student but she didn't know what was making her late for
school."
"My parents are alcoholics," Gerri
said. "Both of them?" Mrs. McCall asked."Ya, both of them drink
almost every weekend and some weekdays." Then Mrs. McCall asked, "Why
didn't you tell me that your parents drink? I mean you're almost a
straight A student, but your parents drink?" Geraldene replied, "Yes
they are heavy drinkers. I didn't tell any body because I thought
that my parents wouldn't love me anymore!"
"But you're too little to know what's
right or wrong. It's not true that your parents won't love you. But
you did the right thing now telling us that your parents are
alcoholics,"Mrs. McCall reassured her. "Now what I'm gonna do is call
a place where you can stay,O.K.?" But
Geraldene said, "No, my parents will
hate me for the rest of my life if I do that." "No." Mrs. McCall
said, "They might thank you if and when they stop drinking." Meanwhile Mr. McCall
called the Children's Home while Geraldene and
his wife were talking.
Geraldene eventually began living
with her auntie in Seattle, Washington. She had a lot of fun with her
auntie. She even spent her ninth birthday with her auntie and they
went to Disney World to enjoy her birthday there. If she had been
home her parents would have used her birthday as an excuse to
drink.
One day Geraldene had a phone call
from her parents. They said they had been attending a treatment
center and were in the Seattle airport returning to Alaska. They
asked her if she wanted to move back with her parents again, and
Geraldene was happy.
She said, "Auntie, my mom and dad are
at the airport, Let's go get them, she said, I'm going home with them
tomorrow!"
They went to get them.
When Geraldene saw her mom and dad,
she ran up to them very happy and said, "A whole year, and we finally
see each other again. I miss and love you two!" Her mom said, "We
love you too."
The next day went by fast. Geraldene
packed her stuff and her auntie took her and her parents to the
airport in the afternoon. They said good bye to her auntie and
Gerri's parents thanked her for watching her for the year.
When they all got home they threw a
welcome home party for Gerri, and it was alcohol free where there was
no drinking allowed.
Geraldene and her parents called her
teacher Mrs. McCall and her husband and asked them to come to their
house to the party. And they thanked Mrs.McCall for helping
them.
THE
END
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