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Summer Institutes in 2012

Informational Flier 2012

 Missoula Invitational Summer Institute:

The 4-week, 9 credit Missoula institute will take place at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana. The program fee is $975, $500 of which can be used for housing in Missoula, and there is a $135 recording fee paid to UM Continuing Education for the graduate credits. Dorm rooms are available on campus, and participants will be notified of this option with their acceptance to the institute.

Summer Institute Application

 

 Southeast Summer Institute:

This year the 3-week, 7 credit southeast institute will take place at Skyview High School in Billings, Montana. The program fee is $250, and there is a $135 credit recording fee for the University of Montana's Continuing Education department. Participants traveling from out of town are responsible for their own housing in Billings. Email Casey Olsen at cougarenglish@gmail.com with questions.

Applications (coming soon) should be sent to the following people:

In-district (Billings) applications to: Marcia Beaumont

                                                   Lewis and Clark Middle School

                                                   1315 Lewis Ave.

                                                   Billings, MT 59102

Out-of-district applications to: Casey Olsen

                                            Columbus High School

                                            433 North Third Street

                                             Columbus, MT 59019   

 

 Worlds Apart but Not Strangers:

The Montana Writing Project will host this 1-week program in the new Payne Family Native American Center on the University of Montana's campus. The Holocaust Memorial Library covers the costs of this institute, so participants only need to pay the $135 credit recording fee.

Please direct questions and completed applications to Wendy Warren at wendyzwarren@yahoo.com.

Worlds Apart but Not Strangers Application

 

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Native Voices, Summer 2012

Historically, the oral tradition of a tribe was its primary vehicle for passing on both sacred and everyday knowledge and practices; it was, if effect, how entire tribal cultures and worldviews were sustained and perpetuated over time. Since Euro-American contact and the federal government's policy of assimilation, American Indian oral and literary expression has grown to cover a wide range of genres, from naming stories to novels, from songs to poems, from jokes to cautionary tales, and from mythic narratives to personal autobiographies.

Native Voices, a Montana Writing Project satellite institute, is a 3-week long immersion course in Native literature. It offers participants an equal balance between becoming acquainted with a long history and the contemporary reality of Native use of narrative and exposition. Over the course of the program, participants will be provided ample opportunities to do writing on their own, as well as the opportunity to produce and present an inquiry demonstration lesson that develops out of an investigation into teaching/learning issues concerning American Indians today.

The program fee is $125 and scholarships may be available. Seven graduate credits (valued at more than $2000) are available for a recording fee of $135.

Native Voices summer 2012 application.

 

Wonders of Writing: Montana Writing Project's Young Writers Workshop

Informational Flyer from 2011 (PDF)
The Montana Writing Project, a nationally-recognized professional development organization for teachers dedicated to improving student writing, offers Young Writers Workshops for students in grades 5-8. We invite young writers to join a community of peers and enthusiastic teachers to find inspiration—and time—for their fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Participants will receive individualized writing instruction, engage with other writers, and have opportunities to share their work.