English+Department+Community

I have been active in the English Department Educational Conferences. A highlight was listening to Vincent Kituku on diversity in the classroom and a workshop on GLBT concerns in the classroom.
 * **Boise State Building Blocks for Education Conference**

I attended a where Jim Fay presented techniques on: Lowering Educator Stress and Raising Student Responsibility.www.loveandlogic.com
 * **Love and Logic Seminar**

I have been active in the working at Silver Sage Elementary and recently chosen to present my project and poster at the Service Learning Night Reception at BSU.
 * **BSU Service Learning Club**

I am part of the Idaho Writers Newsletter and ** http:// **[|**www.sageecosci.com/Writers.html**] who host speakers at the "Rediscovered Bookstore" [], and other authors who come to speak on and off campus and at various locations including **The Cabin**. [|www.thecabinidaho.org]
 * **Non-Fiction and Fiction Writers Group**

I have attended 2 sessions of summer classes for the Boise State Writing Project
 * **Boise State Writing Project**

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 * **English Department Scholarships** I have been awarded 2 **scholarships from the English Department**.

I have been an with Dr. Tara Penry this semester, where I worked on a project researching, reading and writing up summaries and classification of Western authors and their works.@http://westernwriters.boisestate.edu/ Our group worked on over 350 booklets of biographies and criticism and analysis of the works of Western authors. This is a sample of one of the entries.
 * **Western Series Project Research Assistant**