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SCHOOL RESIDENCIES

TJ teaches students the basics of poetry,

our western heritage, cowboy culture, the Code of the West and

Indian Education for All

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What will students involved in the residency learn?

**Students will know basic information about the history of the American Cowboy and Indian, our western heritage and culture, nature, and the Code of the West.

• Students K-3, TJ will do an assembly and they will know about music, poetry, the Code of the West, history on the Cowboy and Indian, our heritage and culture and time permitting they will collaborate on a poem.

• Students 4-12 grade will create poems either on their own or in groups.

• Students 7-12 grade, if time permits, will collaborate on a song (students write the lyrics, TJ writes the music).

**Students will write different patterns of poetry (repeated rhyme, couplet, traditional, and alternating). Time permitting they will work with tongue twisters and limericks.

**Students will understand that poems can be fun and educational. They will understand that poems can be created by their own inspiration or a reflection of their own lives or through their local or family history.

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Description of detailed activities

** TJ will share with the students different aspects of the heritage and culture of the cowboy and Indian.

** TJ will share with them some of his own poetry and song as examples.
** TJ will assign each student a title of a poem for them to write to help them get their creative juices flowing.
** Each day TJ is there the students will learn to write a poem using the different patterns of poetry.
**If time permits, TJ will have the students ask their parents or other relatives about their heritage and/or find out some    history about their area of the country and have them write a poem about their research.
 

AVAILABLE FOR 1 DAY RESIDENCY OR UP TO 2 WEEKS

Check out the Student's poems written with TJ

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TJ is a participating artist
in the "Arts in Education" program

 Montana Arts Council
North Dakota Council on the Arts
Nevada Arts Council

South Dakota Arts Council

Montana Performing Arts Consortium
The Writers Voice

articles written on TJ working with the students

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