1000 Words Blog – Museum of Art

Thousand Words Project Teacher Innovator Grants, 2015 Call for Proposals

�ֲ��ý College — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:40:44 +0000

Through the generous support of the O’Connor Family Foundation, �ֲ��ý College Museum of Art offers up to six $300 grants to middle-school teachers from Lewiston and Auburn to support the continuing evolution of the Thousand Words Project (TWP).

Grants will be awarded to teachers who

teach at Lewiston Middle School or Auburn Middle School
propose to explore ideas not already covered by existing TWP lessons or to more specifically align existing TWP lessons with new curriculum
schedule participation in TWP in the remainder of the current academic year OR are part of a team which participates in TWP in the 2015/2016 academic year.

Some examples of lessons that would be appropriate to propose include, but are not limited to:

Persuasive Essay
Personal Essay
Writing Realistic Fiction
Bringing History to Life
The Literary Essay
Publishing/Presentation
Standardized Test Preparation

Teachers interested in submitting a proposal should begin by carefully examining the lessons already available through TWP website (www.thousandwordsproject.org). Each applicant’s first step will be a conversation about their idea with Anthony Shostak, available at (207) 786-8302. After this discussion, a formal grant proposal may be submitted. Rolling deadline.

Each grant proposal should consist of:

a short description of the applicant’s interest in evolving TWP in the proposed direction
a synopsis of the proposed lesson to be developed
some basic ideas for technology integration
the subject and grade level for the lesson
the Common Core State Standards that will be addressed
full contact information for both the applicant and the school at which he or she works.

Grant proposals should be submitted as Word documents, named following this example:

Doe.Jane.TWPgrant.doc, sent to ashostak@bates.edu.

After receiving approval, each grant recipient will have up to ten (10) weeks to research, develop, and submit their lessons. Final lessons must follow the basic framework seen on the page of each lesson on the TWP website, and should include ideas for technology integration and suggestions for others to “Run With It.” Grants will be dispersed after the lessons are submitted and approved. Lessons funded by this grant become the property of the �ֲ��ý College Museum of Art, with authorship acknowledged.

21st Century Afterschool Community engagement project

�ֲ��ý College — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:10:07 +0000

Thousand Words Project connects with the 21st Century Program

21st Century students create narratives about themselves

�ֲ��ý College — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:03:43 +0000

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Portaits of a Community

�ֲ��ý College — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:14:45 +0000

Students have been working on identifying who is in their community. They have been writing “who me?” poetry and looking at the permanent collection to inspire their art making. They then took photographs to tell a story of who they are, what they do, and where they live.

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Visiting the Museum

�ֲ��ý College — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:51:27 +0000

21 st Century students visited the museum this week during their Spring Break. Everybody took a turn at drawing each other with blind contour inspired by portraits hanging in the museum for the student show.

Rapping about landscape

�ֲ��ý College — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:57:18 +0000

We are at the end of our 6 week art class on landscape! It has been fun! The students composed a rap. We started out with a poetry round robin exercise, each person adding on to what the person to the right of them wrote. The only stipulation I gave them was it had to relate in someway to landscape. Some were really brave to let me video tape them! Here is a sampling.

A sunny day in May the wind blows and goes into the landscape
landscape
landscape
landscape

The sky is grey and I know it is going to be a rainy day
day
day
day

The sun is fun and feels warm in a sunny
sunny
sunny
sunny Day

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21st century students create collage

�ֲ��ý College — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:16:22 +0000

21st Century Students making landscape collage inspired by TWP lessons on “Your Place in Maine”

Monday March 11th

�ֲ��ý College — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:37:24 +0000

Lewiston Middle School students are working on landscape collages as part of the TWP lesson, Your Place in Maine and a rap about landscape. The rap will consist of descriptive words used to describe the place they call home put to their favorite beat. Check back for pictures and videos

Lewiston Middle School and Thousand Words Project

�ֲ��ý College — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:49:42 +0000

This week Lewiston Middle School students used lessons from the Thousand Words Project to inspire Art Making! They first tried their hand at blind contour drawing and then a round robin drawing exercise to loosen up and get their mind on art. Using the lesson, Your Place in Maine, they did a line drawing of a landscape from their imagination and then added pattern and color. Next week they collage landscape!