On one cold day December afternoon was the first day I met my family. On December 7, 1995, three minutes after four during the day, in Anchorage, Alaska, I was born to Francis W. Ivanoff and Carla R. Nakarak Ivanoff. If I were born a boy, my mom would’ve called me Lewis, after my uncle Lewis Nakarak. I have two brothers, Earvin Michael and Francis Wesley Jr. and one sister, Allison Rose. I have lived in Unalakleet, Alaska, with my family all my life. Many of my family, friends, and relatives call me “Little Carla” since I look like my mom, “Ukiaq” as my Eskimo name, and “Audy”. My sister calls me “Ditters” like my mom calls her sister, Josephine Nakarak Lynch. My life has been adventurous with my outdoor activities, accidents, and family and friends.
Outdoor Activities are fun, exciting, and sometimes comical. When I was three years old, I finally learned how to ride a bike. It took my dad four to six days to teach me. I taught Cloei how to ride a bike the year after. At the age of eight, I first drove a four-wheeler for a long period of time. It was fun watching people walking and riding around town. My sister had let me drive the four-wheeler, so I’d know when she or somebody needs a ride or something. A couple years ago, Allison, Lena, and I were riding around approximately at 8:30 p.m. and we went onto the field. Allison did something that made us tip over and fall. Nobody was hurt, but all three of us were scared to death. Another amazing outdoor activity during the year of 2005 was my first year to attend Bible Camp. Many of my classmates had gone to Bible Camp the year. Both my years of Bible Camp have been GREAT! My last activity was my first year of Fallblast, in Golovin was a BLAST! It was my only chance and my Uncle Sam paid my way. My outdoor activities have been so comical and humorous.
Accidents are very painful, especially when it comes to stitches. Throughout my whole life I’ve gotten stitches three times. The first time I got stitches I was five years old. Garrett cooper was driving towards the corner of the road and my mom and dad wasn’t paying attention; we bumped into his car. The time I got stitches on my foot, I was eight years old. I was playing at the gym. One of the seams from the floor was sticking out. My foot slipped under it. When I felt the pain go up my leg I ran into the bathroom. After I fan into the bathroom, Rashawn came to see me. Somebody ran to get my sister and told my Uncle Sam. He got Tim Sagoonick to bring me to the clinic. I had to get three stitches on the bottom of my foot. As soon as it healed my mom took the stitches out. The year of 2005, my sister and I were biking around town. We were going to the playground and my foot slipped off the pedal and I hit something sharp off the seam of the school. Tera was outside her house and my sister was accompanying me towards her. Boyuck’s E.N.T. doctor, mike, helped Chris stitch my leg. It didn’t hurt, but my eyes were tearing up and I had a runny nose. All of my severe injuries have all happened before I turned nine years old.
In conclusion, my life has been so awesome especially when the activities I’ve
Done, the family and friends helping and playing with me, and my accidents that have happened to me all during my life. I hope the rest of my life is filled with many other fun activities. Accidents were not fun for me, so I hope I never get anymore of them. I hope I have many more family and friends to meet and for my loving life. My activities were full of amusement and arousement, I hope my life furnishes many blissful news and excitement.

written by: a student in mrs. dodd’d level five writing class
©March 31,2008

One cold February night in Nome, Alaska my mom waits to see me. She said I was 10 pounds and 2oz. Stanley, Sharosha, Swenson, Tony, and Michael are my brothers. I have no sisters. Elmo and a fish are my pets. People call me Reese Girl, CC, Lynx Pack, CC in water and bay. My life has been full of Favorites, Sports, Preschool, and the rest of my life.

Have you ever had something that was you’re your favorite activity in life? On the day October 22,2003 was the day my mom and dad got married. Tony, my brother was born on April 29^th and Michael on May 12^th to Tony Sr. and Lisa Haugen. Moving from Golovin to Unalakleet was one of my favorite times. When students saw me they asked to be my friend. I went to Hawaii a few months later, which was my first trip out of Alaska. I got my friends key chains and T-shirts. My favorite gift from my parents was a camera. It can take more then a thousand pictures, most of my pictures are of my brothers. I love my favorites and want to keep them.

Joining sports is healthy for you, so I joined basketball, skiing, cheerleading, gymnastics, karate, cross country running and in the future, volleyball. My favorite sport is basketball. I play with ten eighth graders, seven seventh graders, and two sixth graders. My coaches are George Kammer and Tim Pehle. I also joined the ski team. I only traveled to White Mountain with Shyler, Sierra and Mrs. Persons. Eric Morris and his crew picked me for WISA. Then, November seventh to the ninth was the cheerleading tournament. The cheerleading squad had seven cheerleaders and one alternate. My team came in 1^st place. Another sport, gymnastics was taught be Sari Haugen and Alice Toshavik. In front of the crowd I did a little routine in the gym. Last time I did Karate was with Mr.K. During August I joined cross-country running. There were a lot of teams and people that came here to compete. For the open race we ran a four-mile runner. It was so tiring. When I get older I want Dorothy or my mom to be my coach for volleyball. I already know some rules. I am only twelve years old and I’ve joined lots of sports.

I wish I could go back to Golovin to remember my memories. When I was in Preschool, I knew Golovin and White Mountain as well as I know my parents. I knew where the playground, my school, the store, and the house was. Most of the times I would go to Renatta or John’s house to visit and play with them. My teacher, Misty would teach us songs and I would sing them a lot to practice them. While singing I would skip some lines. At the end of the year my class made a scented candle for Mother’s Day. When I was making mine, part of our school caught on fire so we went to my mom’s office. Thinking of my younger years I wish I was younger again.

There have been other activities in my life that I haven’t mentioned. My dad adopted me from Fred Tocktoo. I remember my dad doing some paper work. When I was younger I went to our fish camp at Golovin, Kitchavik. My brother was driving us to Kitchavik by boat. It was shallow and I was standing on the bow and we hit bottom, so I fell under the boat. It was soooo scary. My brother quickly went back to bring me to the clinic. I received fourteen stitches. During summertime I got a little bike from my parents. I used training wheels because I would always crash and get a cut. Then, at the age of nine I went to my first year of Bible Camp. At first I was really shy and then towards the end I met people. I had so much fun. Twelve days at the Anchorage hospital was unexciting for me. The doctors took out my tonsils. Finally, here in Unalakleet, Dr. Ladd and Jaralyn put braces on my bottom teeth. They never put them on my top because I needed to have a retainer on first. These activities in my life have kept me very busy!

In conclusion, my life has been wonderful since now. I have many more years to have fun. When I get older I want to go to Boston, Paris, Idaho, New York and Disney World and get a job for teaching. My goal is to go to school at North Dakota or Mount Edgecumbe. One of my favorite sports is basketball. We learned how to do a three on two press, block out, and other things that our coach taught in high school. All of my teammate’s want to invite Scammon Bay to you next tournament because we lost against them and then we want to show them that we can beat them. Golovin has been my hometown ever since I was six and a half years old. When I leave I miss seeing all of my relatives. I love writing this biography and wish to do it again in the future!

Segregation in the form of enrollment in schools happened a lot in the free country of the United States of America. It hit the US in the beginning and middle of the twentieth century, and is defined as when two or more races are separated and one has limited or no privileges. Before schools were integrated, there were two unequal schools for white and African American students. The separation of students in school is a bad idea because students should have gotten the same education regardless of race.

When there was segregation in schools, it often led to violence. Ku Klux Klan members and racist white people threw bricks into black people’s windows, burned crosses in their yards, and called them names that really hit them deep in the heart. There would probably be more racism with white and other non-white students because of the color of their skin. There might be heavy rivalry between white and non-white schools because most likely the white students thought they were better than all the colored schools. It can cause more bullying between schools that are segregated.

Segregation between students could effect education; it would cost the government more money to run two schools. Most likely, white students might get a better education and better materials to help them learn. Non-white students could have less educating materials to have in school. Without a good education the African Americans are not able to get good jobs and are not able to care for themselves or community.

­­­­­­If segregation were in schools the quality of the school might be different. The white students might have a well-done school to attend, while the non-whites would have poorly made schools. There might be better plumbing, heating, air ventilation system, etc. in a white school than a non-white school. There might be better teachers, school supplies, and more of a food choice in a white school rather than a non-white school.

I think it would be unfair because I am not white. The older and stronger white students would probably tease me and try to fight me all the time. Also I would want a good educated head on top of my body. I wouldn’t want to go to a school that was half way from completion; it would be cold all the time. That’s why I wouldn’t want to be a non-white at this time period.

10/30/07

Educational Institution of Little Rock
Little Rock, Arkansas

Dear Educational Institution of Little Rock,

Fifty years ago, nine African American students courageously entered an all white school facing racial segregation. It took bravery, but after that day the nation was in a debate about African Americans rights. Racism was a big role in that, but President Eisenhower had ruled that segregation was illegal. Many black students refused to go to ‘White Schools’ because they saw what happened to the nine students and others were threatened, assaulted and even killed. Many African Americans fought for their rights not only on the streets, but also in court and progress was made slowly.

Although segregation is still illegal, we endure it from day to day. It’s not just African Americans anymore though it has come to affect all races. For example, if someone was a racist white boy and went to school, he’d expect that only white people should attend. That’s not how it works though; just because your skin is a certain color it doesn’t mean you have a higher priority than anyone else. It simply means you’re a different race and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. No one’s perfect and no one will ever be. You just have to accept people for who they are and treat them with equality.

After reading the article about the nine students I’ve come to realize that racism is a powerful thing and plays a big part in segregation. Since segregation is rare now a days, it feels like racism has taken over it. I believe you should be treated how you want others to treat you. It’s easy, but there is always a factor that affects the way you feel about others. Maybe it’s because a person has been racially seized and doesn’t know how to take it so they act upon it like they’ve been treated. We’ll never know, but we certainly can try to avoid it.

Yours truly,

Kaitlin Ivanoff