 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
Kindergarten
Annie Hunter reports that, "In
Kindergarten we read the story, The Three Billy Goats
Gruff, and the students found it very interesting. We then did
some activities around the same theme. The students made bridges
using blocks and toy goats, and
they used a gorilla for a troll. I showed the students a video tape
of the story which they really enjoyed. Then we play acted the story.
We had a lot of fun.
In math we made red circles in
various sizes and decorated them for mobiles. We used glitter, paper
punchers, and dots to decorate them. They are
displayed in our room.
We checked and recorded the height
and weight of the students. I plan to
do this again with each student several times over the school year to
check for growth. In the future I also plan to use dinosaur and
insect thematic units with my students."
By Annie Hunter
Interview by Jon Boots
First and Second
Grades
The 1st and 2nd grade classes have a
new teacher named Barb Sandlin. She comes from Alakanuk where she
taught for four years.
In Barb's class the students are
working on improving their reading skills, spelling, and math skills.
The students are also making a book called "All About Me From A to
Z". It will take them all year to finish the book. When they are
finished they will give it to their parents for a present.
In science the students are learning
about baby animals and writing stories and drawing pictures of
them.
Joe Fitka
Third and Fourth
Grades
Janice Olsen
is teaching
third and fourth grade this year instead of first and second grade.
The whole class has just started a brand new reading series by Heath
Company. All of the kids are really enjoying the variety of stories
in the book. For writing, the kids have started daily journals, and
the whole class has been writing in cursive. The math this year is
the same as last year, except it is a little bit harder. The third
grade is reviewing their addition and subtraction, and the fourth
grade is starting on numeration. Janice Olsen's third and fourth
grade class won't be doing any big projects to start with, but later
on they will start a unit on bears.
by Charlotte Alstrom
Fifth and Sixth
Grade
Besides doing the regular hard
academics, Tom Andrew's class is trying some fun stuff this year.
Right now they have time during the day to use their creative
learning skills to make things they see in our daily lives. They do
this with clay.
This year they will also be learning
Elementary Spanish and continuing the Young Astronauts II program.
Both learning programs are delivered to the school by satellite. The
Young Astronauts program is a NASA (National Aeronautics & Space
Administration) learning tool to learn about space. This year's
program focuses on Earth.
We hope to have a good year this
year, as always, said Tom.
Tassie
Fitka
Junior High
School
Although Guy is officially the Jr.
High teacher, he is teaching high school Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1,
Human Biology and Health. In the Jr. High he teaches math to the
seventh and eighth graders as well as spelling, geography and
science.
Generally he is focusing on providing
opportunities for students to prepare themselves for whatever their
own individual lifetime goals are. Certain prerequisites are
necessary no matter what the endeavor and so he feel it is important
for him to stress them. Examples are the basic mathematics tools for
computations and general geographic knowledge of place and
region.
By: Guy Sandlin
Interview by: Kathy
Duny
High School
Richard Olsen's
Classes
In the morning, Richard teaches
freshman and sophomore English, and 7th and 8th grade English. In the
afternoon he teaches a high school wood working class, and a 7th and
8th grade native crafts class.
Richard says it's been an excellent
year so far. He knows the kids and they know him and they work good
together. There haven't been any problems since he got back. He also
had a good feeling when he came back to Marshall from his summer
vacation. When people walked up to them and welcomed them back, it
made him feel at home and very welcome. That's why he feels Marshall
is a great place to live and work, and he's looking forward to a
great year.
Richard's freshman and sophomore
English students are reading The White Dawn by James Houston. It's a
story about some men who are shipwrecked and rescued by Eskimos. The
7th and 8th grade English class is reading short stories. His high
school shop class is taking safety tests before operating the power
tools and heavy machinery. And his 7th and 8th graders are making
wooden ladles(ipuuns). Later they hope to make little model
sleds.
Maurice Turet
Frank's
Courses
Frank teaches Language Arts and World
History in the morning, and Journalism and Russian Language in the
afternoon.
In Language Arts his students are
producing the sixth edition of Summertime Tails plus
reading and doing much journal writing on subjects of concern both to
them and the community. In World History they recently finished a
three week unit on Africa and presently are studying
Canada.
In the the afternoon his students are
working on the school paper in Journalism, and in Russian they are
practicing their alphabet and doing some basic grammar. They are also
learning to write the Russian language in cursive.
FK
Nick's
Classes
Nick Isaac is the Yupik instructor
here at Marshall High School. Nick has been teaching with the school
for 20 years. He started in 1975. The Yupik instructors before him
were Alice Fitka and Clara Shorty.
H.S. graduates have to know how to
speak, read, and write at least some of the yupik language in order
to graduate, according to Nick. Yupik is required for all elementary
and high school students, according to district policy.
This week Nick and his students have
been studying their vocabulary for the word search they learned last
week.
All of his Yupik students enjoy
having the class, says Nick, and most of them don't give him a hard
time.
Lois
Moore
Our
Librarian
Clara Shorty both works as our
librarian and helps some of the teachers teach the kidsin Math,
Reading, and Language Arts.
During the first part of the morning
Clara works with Janice and Barbara's classes and helps the students
with their work.
Later in the morning she works with
Richard's class in grades 6,7, and 8. Here she helps the students
work on Language Arts. The students are using text books and they
usually read the stories together and then answer questions on the
stories.
In the afternoon Clara first works
with grades 5 and 6 in Reading. Then later she works in the library
with various elementary grades and the Kindergarten. Finally, she
spends an hour in the library working with the books
themselves.
Tatiana
Sergie
Donna's
Room
Donna Best is the Special Ed. teacher
here in Marshall.
She started teaching in 1980 after
she finished college. She got her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in
Special Education.
Donna teaches children of all ages,
grades and ability levels as well as a wide variety of subjects. She
has a classroom upstairs beside the computer lab here at Marshall
School. Students ranging from preschool to high school come to her
class to work on different subjects. Textbooks are rarely used in her
class. She uses a number of materials to meet the students'
needs.
Right now Donna is trying to find out
where the kids need extra help. Then she will help them learn what
they need to learn. And yes, they do give her a hard time sometimes,
but she says that you need to have a great deal of
patience.
Patience is the key to being a good
teacher.
Cheryl Hunter
Olga's Computer
Class
Olga Soolook is the elementary
computer teacher. On her normal workday she works with students from
grades K-8.
Her first computer class includes
grades six through eight, and they are working on math
problems.
Later in the morning she works with
Janice Olsen's third and fourth graders on the computers, helping
them with their math or reading skills.
After lunch Tom Andrew's class goes
to the computer room and she helps them
work on either their math or reading.
Later Janice Olsen sends up the other
half of her third and fourth graders and they work on their math or
reading.
During her last class she works with
first and second graders in the same subjects.
The only new thing that has happened
in the computer room is that she switched from "At Ease" to "Fool
Proof". But Olga says that she wants to switch back to "At
Ease."
Rose Lynn Fitka
Gail's Special
Schedule
Gail Fitka is the only full time
Teacher Aide and Special Ed. Aide here at the Marshall School. She
assists the students in the elementary school who need help
especially with their work in Mathematics and Reading. She also helps
the children reach the academic goals they have set for themselves to
get into high school. She helps the children in their other subjects
too and also those who have special needs.
Gail says she plans to continue
working here for a long time so she can help school children learn
what they need to know to succeed later in life.
Cheryl
Hunter
Marshall's New
Counselor
Vera Weiser is our new counselor here
at the Marshall School. She is also the new counselor for Pilot
Station. It is her first time counselling and she thinks it
is great. She's wanted to be a counselor
since high school.
Vera is an Athabaskan Indian from the
village of Minto which is located about 100
miles northwest of Fairbanks. She attended the University of Alaska
in Fairbanks where she graduated
with a Bachelor's degree in Education.
After she graduated she taught in
Beaver and Angoon. In Angoon she taught grade 7-12 Social Studies,
and in Beaver she taught all grades and courses
offered.
Vera is married and has two boys,
Julian who is 3 years old, and Martin who is 10 years old. Her
husband Josh is the third grade teacher in Pilot Station.
Charlotte Alstrom
& Tassie Fitka
Elena Sergie (head cook)
Our New Head
Cook
Elena Sergie is our new head cook
here at the Marshall School. Elena was born and raised in Pitka's
Point with her family. She started as a head cook at Pitka's Point
School in 1969 and retired in 1993. She cooked breakfast and lunch
for 45 students and staff at
Pitka's. Pitka's Point is a lot smaller than Marshall.
She plans to work at the Marshall
School for 2 to 3 years. She says that working here is not much
different except there are more students to cook for and a lot more
to do in the kitchen.
Elena likes everything in our
school--the students working, teachers teaching, everyone doing what
they are assigned to do.
During the coming year she is
planning to improve the breakfast and lunch menu for the school. She
is going to think about how to change it and talk it over with the
principal and the other cook. It would be a new change for the school
and she thinks the students would like it.
Kathy Duny
Feature News
What's Happenin' at
School
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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