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.
A Rough
Night
One night some of my relatives and a
couple of their buddies came into our house talking very loudly. I
didn't know why they were there until I saw a bottle of alcohol. They
poured it into their cups over and over and a little while later they
were acting very weird. I was so frightened I went into my bedroom
and hid. I got into bed and tried to fall asleep because I knew
something bad was about to happen. I finally fell asleep but every
hour I woke up because they were so loud and clumsy. Once I even
heard a glass object hit the wall and shatter into pieces. They all
laughed when it happened. I went out and asked them to be quiet but
they just laughed at me.
An hour later I heard someone
knocking on our door. Everyone quieted down and stopped what they
were doing. One of them asked who it was. Then a young boy walked in
and sat down on the couch near my bedroom door. It was Charlie, one
of the drinker's young sons. A little while later he asked his father
to go home because his mother wanted him to chop wood. Then I heard
him crying because he was scared of their strange behavior. They all
kept falling down when they tried to walk. I then heard someone
stumbling towards my door. And all of a sudden Charlie started
screaming in terror. When I went out to check on what was happening I
saw Charlie's father, Quin, beating on him. I ran over to try and
stop him but Quin was just too tough for me. He threw me off his
shoulders and onto the floor. Then I ran over and tried to calm down
Charlie who was in shock from his father's beating.
Right away I took Charlie back to his
grandparent's house. They were both really mad at Quin for what
he did.
Charlie's face was really bruised. He had a big black eye and part of
his lip was hanging off. His grandparents told me to call the police
and tell them what Quin did to Charlie.
The next day the State Troopers came
in from Bethel to investigate. They went to talk to Quin for a couple
of hours, then they came over to my house and I told them my side of
the story. The next day we all went over to the court building and
they sentenced him to 30 years in prison with 5 years
suspended.
After Charlie's recovery he felt very
sorry for his dad. But he and his mother are now living more happily
than ever before because they don't have to deal with his father's
drinking and beating anymore.
Jonathan
Boots
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