 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.
  What's
Happenin' at School?
Annie's
Kindergarten
In Reading we are introducing the
letter Ff. I have read "Who Took the Farmers Hat" to the students,
and recently we made fox headbands and stand-up foxes to be used in
retelling the story, "The Gingerbread Boy." The students have also
been busy tracing, coloring hidden pictures with Ff, and reciting
poems of "Four Little Fishes."
In Math the students are learning
about groups of 1 to 4 and also the ordinal numbers to locate
positions. We enjoyed the dentist's visit
recenty. Dr. Todd and our ex-student
Gerilyn Fitka came into our classroon and demonstrated how fluorides
are done. Afterwards they gave all of the students a ring and a
toothbrush to take home.
Annie
Hunter
Barb's 1st and 2nd
Grades
Dear Readers,
Hi. We are working hard. We are
learning how to read. We are doing art, spelling, phonics, math,
English, Yup'ik and CCC. We are learning about animals and how they
live. In Spanish we are learning to speak Spanish. In English we are
drawing and writing about fun things. We write the stories and then
we correct them and we write them again. We are learning how to use
commas, periods and question marks.
We are happy that it is November
because it is almost Thanksgiving. We like turkey and turkey parties.
The turkey parties are so loud that they crack the earth. They are
lots of fun because we eat jello, turkey, cake, and pumpkin pie with
whipped cream. Sometimes we even get ice cream to eat.
Now that winter is here we are
starting to use snow machines. We love the winter. We can make
snowmen and snow horses. We are excited that we can also go dog
racing. We all have a dog to race and we will win the dog
race.
Written by the 2nd grade
students.
Happy Thanksgiving from Room
#103
Grades three and four are continuing
to study reading, math, social studies, health, spelling,
handwriting, grammar, creative writing, Spanish, art and
Yupik.
Beginning Spanish language lessons
are received over the school satellite dish, recorded, and watched
twice weekly. Colors, numbers through ten, words describing people,
and greetings have been covered so far.
A few weeks ago, Janice and Richard
registered for an art class through KUC for grades four through
eight. They have done drawing, water colors, graphing and tempra
painting. Student art work samples were sent to Bethel for their art
show. If you plan a trip to Bethel on November 18, stop at KUC and
take a look!
Janice
Olsen
Tom's
Class
In the 5th and 6th grades we've been
learning the Spanish language and about Spanish traditions. The
students made friendship bracelets and toy coffins for the Spanish
holiday, Day of the Dead. They have also been watching the Young
Astronauts program and have called in their answers several times.
They do many experiments that the program offers.
I try to encourage the students to
appreciate the foreign language that they are learning.
Tom
Andrew
Richard's
Classes
In Language Arts 9 and 10, students
are reading Frozen Fire, by James Houston. The book involves a
story of survival about Eskimos in Northern Canada. Students just
finished reading a book by the same author, entitled The White
Dawn, earlier in the year and reported that they enjoyed the
book, so it is hoped that they will enjoy the second book as
much.
In Junior High Language Arts, the
students just finished reading a story about the bravery of a nine
year one boy educated in France who misinterpreted a doctor's
thermometer reading in Fahrenheit as Celsius which led him to believe
that he was going to die. The positive note is that the students were
very willing to use dictionaries to increase their
vocabulary.
The High School Shop Class students
are involved in individual projects ranging from gun racks to
box-joint boxes made with a router and the Incra-Jig. Other students
have been involved with repair of ATV's which will be of value for
the remainder of their lives. It's great the see students get excited
about repairing equipment that is a part of their daily
lives.
The Junior-High Shop Classes are
proving that hand tools can produce a worthy project. Since they are
not qualified to operate power tools, they are afforded the
opportunity to be creative in making projects which can be made with
hand tools.
The construction workers at the new
Armory building made waste material available which has produced a
collection of "boxes". These boxes and "tables" are neat little
projects which allow junior high students to develop a basic interest
and confidence in making practical projects for their
homes.
Richard
Olsen
Frank's
Classes
In my Language Arts class we are
reading a long novel about Siberia which not only has everyone
totally engrossed but also fits in with what we are studying in World
History and Russian Language class. We continue to do daily journals
which are mostly thoughtful responses to readings or video news
clips. And we are working in Literary Cavalcade, Choices and Update
magazines as we receive them. We are just now finishing up our Fox
Fire unit, Fish Fire and Water, and we should have our book
out after Thanksgiving sometime. Then it's on to the short
story.
In World History we are just
finishing the Middle East and will begin
Russian Asia next week.
Journalism includes work on this
paper, plus continued effort at the big book we will entitle
Building Personalities of Marshall. This is a cultural
journalism project and will include photos and text about everyone
who works in Marshall. The buildings where they work will also be
featured. We have also been doing investigative journalism and
research journalism into old magazines like Time and U.S. News and
World Report. Students share their work with the rest of the class by
presenting it to them in the form of speeches. Our student teacher,
Flora Evan, has been a big help in this fun class.
In Russian we are studying twelve new
verbs and their conjugations, plus possessive pronouns and
time.
Frank Keim
Guy's
Classes
In the 7th and 8th grade Math classes
the students are doing problems with mixed numbers and improper
fractions.
The 7th and 8th grade Geography
students are finishing up Haiku poems and corresponding drawings
dealing with the video "Nanook of the North." The high school
Pre-Algebra students are exploring graphing of linear equations and
applications. Algebra 1 students are learning to solve quadratic
equations using the factoring method. In the Human Biology and Health
class, students are preparing original drama presentations dealing
with life issues.
Guy
Sandlin
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Special Olympics in
Marshall
The Lower Yukon Area Special
Olympics Bowling Tournament was held in Marshall November 13
through 15. The tournament was a great success and was
enjoyed by all those who participated. There were five teams
in attendance from Marshall, Pilot Station, Pitka's Point,
Russian Mission, and St. Mary's.
The bowlers had the
opportunity to bowl in three events-singles, doubles,
and team bowling. Tournament medal winners were: Gold
Medalist: Francine Thompson from Pitka's Point; Silver
Medalist: Nick Coffee from Marshall; and Bronze Medalist:
Lorah Olsen from Marshall.
In the team event, first
place was awarded to Marshall, second place to Russian
Mission, and third to a combination Pitka's Point/Pilot
Station team. The top three doubles teams were: Emily
Soolook and Henry Coffee from Marshall-first place; Faith
Askoak and Stephanie Evan from Russian Mission-second place;
Francine Thompson and Savanah Francis from Pitka's Point and
Pilot Station-third place.
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A New Volleyball Season For
Alvin
Alvin Owletuck Jr has returned to
coach for another season of volleyball. He has been the volleyball
coach for the past three years and is at it again. He has a
volleyball team of nine players and hopes they do well. He spends an
hour a day scrimmaging and teaching them how to hit the ball right.
Alvin had to receive first aid training just in case of an
emergency.
The season started October 6, and it
will end December 6. His schedule shows that he has a game in St.
Mary's in two weeks and the tournament in Mountain Village in three
weeks. He had a game last week in Pilot Station but did not approve
of it because he had only five players on his team. Alvin says that
the season has been great so far and hopes it will remain the same
for the rest of the year.
Tassie
Fitka
Fish
Flash
On November 14, Marshall School
received 500 little fertilized sockeye salmon eggs. These eggs were
sent to the school from Ft. Richardson as part of a fish project that
we have here at the school. The objective of the project is to teach
students about the life cycle of the salmon.
After the eggs were received they
were taken out of the box and gently released into 45 degree water in
the fish tank where they will be for the next two months until they
hatch. About half of the eggs were buried under the gravel. The sides
were then covered with styrofoam both to keep the tank cool and to
keep the aquarium dark since light can harm the new eggs.
Jonathan
Boots
Signs of Global
Warming
On November 13, Paul Coffee spotted
two Swans flying over Polty's Slough going upriver. There were also
two Merganser ducks spotted swimming around in an open hole at
Ingerak on November 2nd by a bunch of eelers waiting for the eels to
come by. This is the first time in memory that swans have been
sighted in this area at this time.
Mr. Frank Keim, a teacher at Marshall
school, thinks that this is a sign of global warming.
Global warming, also called the
greenhouse effect, is caused by fossil fuels like gasoline and
heating oil that when burned and released into the atmosphere hold in
the heat that would usually be released into space. This causes the
temperature all over the Earth to rise a little, and is predicted to
cause dramatic changes, including the melting of the ice caps and
permafrost, rise in sea levels, the extinction of thousands of animal
and plant species and the flooding of cities along the world's
coastlines.
Joe Fitka
Editorial Page
Max's
Message from the Best
Little School on the Yukon
Feature News
What's Happenin' at
School?
November
1997 Calendar
Elders
Page
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Taking the Wrong
Trail
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Alexander Isaac
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Dedications
Dear
Tat
Mystery
People
Did
You Know That…
Fun
Page
Look
To The Stars
Your Personal Horoscope
??Guess
Who!!
Special
Feature from the Tundra Drums
in memory of Veterans Day
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Vietnam vet recalls the
'crazy wars'
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Frank Keim
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Message
Page (in
pdf)
End
Notes
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 |
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