North Dakota State University (Fargo, ND 58102-1843)
Thomas D. Isern (Project Director: March 2007 to August 2009)
FV-50146-07
Seminars for K-12 Educators
Education Programs
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Totals:
$110,924 (approved)
$110,924 (awarded)
Grant period:
10/1/2007 – 9/30/2008
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The Great Plains from Texas to Saskatchewan: Place, Memory, Identity
A five-week summer seminar for fifteen school teachers on the history and culture of the American Great Plains.
This five-week seminar will provide fifteen teacher-participants, along with the seminar director, the opportunity to study in depth four great texts of the Great Plains experience. Two texts--by Walter P. Webb and Willa Cather--represent the First Generation of Great Plains regionalism, which sought cultural autonomy for the region in an increasingly metropolitan nation. Two texts--by N. Scott Momaday and Wallace Stegner--represent the Second Generation of Great Plains regionalism, which sought personal identity in the Great Plains experience. The seminar is to be directed by a historian who specializes in regional studies. The seminar will convene at North Dakota State University, a land-grant university of the northern plains.
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