Russian Language Immersion Program

UNIT MAP (under

construction)

School: Lane Middle School

Teacher: Olga N Volnycheva Time Frame: January-June 2016
Grade Level: 7/8
Subject: Russian Language Arts
Goal: Help students appreciate the Russian culture & develop the reading, writing,
speaking & listening Russian language skills to achieve proficiency Stage 5
(Intermediate-Mid) according to Oregon Common Core Standards.
Message: Even though students in this program could speak and read Russian fairly
well they often struggle with deep comprehension of the texts they are reading. They
have troubles with literary devices, authors message, and correct spelling while
writing. Thus, I advocate for project-based approach as a significant way to scaffold
them in deeper understanding of a subject and support my students on a path to one
of the greatest advances of civilization Literature.
Unit 1 January Week 1/2 (4-8) (11-15) Project Russian Writers
: http://dict.mosmetod.ru/index.php?r=site/dict&id=2
: http://dict.mosmetod.ru/index.php?r=site/dict&id=9
: http://dict.mosmetod.ru/index.php?r=site/dict&id=6
: http://dict.mosmetod.ru/index.php?r=site/dict&id=11
. . : https://my.mail.ru/mail/lobanova.gala/video/2273/2277.html
, : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AyIu-aVUq4

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Lesson 1 [01.04]
Lesson 2 [01.05]
Lesson 3 [01.06]
Lesson 4 [01.07]
Lesson 5 [01.08]
Practice makes perfect
Goal: To enable students to
Goal: To enable students to
Goal: To enable students to
Goal: To enable students to
Goal: To enable students to
read & comprehend the story learn about Russian Writers
be aware of the artists
learn new vocabulary &
recall the last story they read Instructional Objectives:
Instructional Objectives:
biographies in the way of
repeat literer. terms
Instructional Objectives:
Students will be able:
Students will be able:
persons who try to live their Instructional Objectives:
Students will be able:
-to read & comprehend the
-to read and understand
dreams despite anything.
Students will be able:
to recall & discuss G.
moral of the story
writers biographies with
Instructional Objectives:
-to learn new vocab on
Senkevich story Yanko-the
Agenda
their teachers scaffolding.
Students will be able:
Bunins story
Musician
-Watching & listening to
- to improve their spelling
-to paraphrase texts (Jigsaw) .
Agenda
Igor Ilinsky The New Year
Agenda
Agenda
to improve their spelling
-News: The Best Christmas
Tree
-Dictation on spelling:
-Literary Terms (PPoint)
Agenda

Ever (WWI-100-old story)

-Yanko-Story Vocab
(checking on remembering)
-Story retelling & discussing
-Pics Music in Fine Art
-Oral translation
(Engl>Russian): The New
Year (my book on US
holidays). I do/We do/You
do

-Silent reading of the story

-Checking for understanding
-What is the moral of the
story? (brief writing)
-Share your own funny
winter story (speaking)

-Bios reading in groups
(Russian troika)
Grin/ Chekhov/Bunin/ Gogol
Kuprin/ Zoshchenko/Tolstoi/
Turgenev
Homework: Make a research
on wirters bio to add some
interesting facts.

Lesson 6 [01.11]
Lesson 7 [01.12]
Lesson 8 [01.13]
Goal: To enable students to
use the new vocabulary &
define liter. terms
Instructional Objectives:
Students will be able:
-to use the new vocab in
sentences they create
-to define liter. terms from
the story (not read yet)
Agenda
- Vocab (PPoint)
- create sentences with new
vocab
-Literary Terms (PPointQuiz)-define liter. terms
from the story
Unit 2 Project Russian Poets
: http://dict.mosmetod.ru/index.php?r=site/dict&id=1
: http://dict.mosmetod.ru/index.php?r=site/dict&id=3

-Jigsaw Puzzle on writers

bios
- Ivan Bunin Bio/ reading
& discussing
Homework: Make a research
on Bunins bio to add some
interesting facts.

-Dictation on spelling:

- interesting facts about
Bunin (Checking h/work)
- New vocab on Bunins
story .
(KWL Ppoint)
-Literary Terms (PPoint)

What the heck? Old New

Year in Russia?
Lesson 9 [01.14]

Lesson 10 [01.15]

01.18
No school. Martin L.Kings
Day

Lesson 11 [01.19]
-Oral translation
(Engl>Russian): Martin
L.Kings Day (from my
book on US holidays). I
do/We do/You do

Lesson 12 [01.20]

Lesson 13 [01.21]
SUB plan
Russian 6-12 CMAAC
Subcommittee meeting
Textbook evaluation (all
day), potential pilot of first
textbook option

Lesson 15 [01.22]

O1.25
Teacher Planning Day - No
School for Students

Lesson 16 [01.26]

Lesson 17 [01.27]
Pushkin & Nataly Sketch

Lesson 18 [01.28]
SUB plan
Russian 6-12 CMAAC
Subcommittee meeting
Textbook evaluation (all
day), potential pilot of first
textbook option

Lesson 19 [01.29]

Parents/Teachers Tea-time
9-10.30am
Lesson 22 [02.03]

Lesson 23 [02.04]

Lesson 24 [02.05]

Lesson 28 [02.11]

Lesson 29 [02.12]

Lesson 32 [02.18]
SLIP Testing

Lesson 33 [02.19]
SLIP Testing

Unit 3 Project A Window Can Tell a Story

Lesson 20 [02.01]
Lesson 21 [02.02]

Unit 4 Project Leningrad

Lesson 25 [02.08]
Lesson 26 [02.09]
Lesson 27 [02.10]
SUB plan
Russian 6-12 CMAAC
Subcommittee meeting (all
day) - novel and textbooks
re-evaluation after the pilot,
draft the plan, finalize
recommendations to the
Board
Unit 5 Project Maslenitsa Farewell to Winter Russian Festival
[02.15]
Lesson 30 [02.16]
Lesson 31 [02.17]
No School
-Oral translation
Late Opening
Presidents Day
(Engl>Russian): Presidents
Day (my book on US

holidays). I do/We do/You

do
Lesson 34 [02.22]

Fatherland Defenders Day

in Russia
Lesson 35 [02.23]

Unit 6 Project Palette

Lesson 30 [02.29]
Goal: To enable students to
learn about Russian Art/to
improve their spelling
Instructional Objectives:
Students will be able:
-to read and understand
artists biographies with their
own language scaffolding.
-to express their opinion on
artists life & artworks.
Isaak Levitan
Konstantin Korovin

Vita brvis, ars lnga

Midterm!!
Parents/Teachers Tea-time
Cats Day in Russia
9-10.30am
Lesson 31 [03.01]
Lesson 32 [03.02]
Goal: To enable students to
be aware of the artists
biographies in the way of
persons who try to live their
dreams despite anything.
Instructional Objectives:
Students will be able:
-to paraphrase texts
-to make a research on artists
bio to add some interesting
facts (homework).

Dictation on spelling:
(Extract 1- .
.
, p.120123
Job Alike/Lilia-Olga-10-12
Lesson 35 [03.07]

Lesson 29 [02.25]

Lesson 29 [02.26]

Lesson 33 [03.03]

Lesson 34 [03.04]

Lesson 37 [03.09]

Lesson 38 [03.10]

Lesson 39 [03.11]

Lesson 42 [03.16]
Late Opening

Lesson 43 [03.17]

Lesson 44 [03.18]

[03.23]
Spring Break

[03.24]
Spring Break

[03.25]
Spring Break

Valentin Serov

Womens Day in Russia

Lesson 36 [03.08]

Unit 7 Project Ivan Krylovs Tales

Lesson 40 [03.14]
Lesson 41 [03.15]

[03.21]
Spring Break

Lesson 36 [02.24]

[03.22]
Spring Break

Unit 7 Project
Lesson 45 [03.28]

Lesson 46[03.29]

Lesson 47 [03.30]

Lesson 48 [03.31]

All Fools Day

Lesson 49 [04.01]

Lesson 51 [04.05]

Parents/Teachers Tea-time
9-10.30am
Lesson 52 [04.06]

Grading Period
Lesson 53 [04.07]

Lesson 54 [04.08]
Teacher Planning Day - No
School for Students

Unit 8 Project
Lesson 55 [04.11]

Lesson 56 [04.12]

Lesson 57 [04.13]

Lesson 58 [04.14]

Lesson 59 [04.15]

Lesson 60 [04.18]

Lesson 61[04.19]

Job Alike/Lilia-Olga-10-12
Lesson 50 [04.04]

Lesson 62 [04.20]
Lesson 63 [04.21]
Lesson 64 [04.22]
Late Opening
Unit 8 Project: Writing Essays (Narrative/Expository/Persuasive/ Imaginative/ Literary Analysis) on M. Sholokhovs story
The Fate of a Man ( ) Victory Day.

. . . :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-dSiegk6H8
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO_JT_x8CbI
Contact my colleague Olga Chukarina (Krasnodar, Russia): her father-in-law, , was the last
secretary of M. Sholokhov
" " : http://asbook.net/abooks/russlit/994-sudba-cheloveka-mihail-sholohov.html

(Youtube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0qf9gnAtp8
Film/: https://my-hit.org/film/7713/
Film/: http://tfilm.me/5796-sudba-cheloveka.html
Lesson 65 [04.25]
Lesson 66 [04.26]
Lesson 67 [04.27]
Lesson 68 [04.28]

Lesson 69 [04.29]

Job Alike/Lilia-Olga-10-12
Lesson 70 [05.02]

Lesson 71[05.03]

Parents/Teachers Tea-time
9-10.30am
Lesson 72 [05.04]

Lesson 73 [05.05]

Lesson 74 [05.06]

Lesson 75 [05.09]
Victory Day - PPoint

Midterm!!
Lesson 76 [05.10]

Lesson 77 [05.11]

Lesson 78 [05.12]

Lesson 79 [05.13]

Lesson 80 [05.16]

Lesson 81 [05.17]

Lesson 82 [05.18]

Lesson 83 [05.19]

Lesson 84 [05.20]

Lesson 85 [05.23]

Lesson 86 [05.24]

Lesson 87 [05.25]

Lesson 88 [05.26]

Lesson 89 [05.27]

[05.30]
No School
Memorial Day

Lesson 90 [05.31]

Parents/Teachers Tea-time
9-10.30am
Lesson 90 [06.01]

Lesson 90 [06.02]

Lesson 90 [06.03]

Job Alike/Lilia-Olga-10-12
Lesson 91 [06.06]

End of School [06.07]

[06.08]
Teacher Planning Day

[06.09]
Teacher Planning Day

Essay on [Drafts first]

Working on the essays

Finishing the essays

Essay topics ( The Fate of a Man by M. Sholokhov)

Directions:

Assessment:

Topic #1 (Narrative Essay)

In the story The Fate of a Man, Andrey Sokolov was called up into the Army to fight in
the war. As he was boarding the train to leave with his unit, his wife Irina clung to him,
wailing, sobbing and predicting, "We'll never see each other again in this world."
Recount a time in your life when you or someone you know predicted the things that
happened. What was it?

Select one topic from the list

below and write a five or
more paragraph essay.

Essay on The Fate of a

Man by M. Sholokhov

Topic #2 (Expository Essay)

Explain the similes and metaphors in the story for showing the persons characters.
Topic #3 (Persuasive Essay)
The first man Andrei ever killed was the Russian soldier Kryzhnev. What was the reason?
Take a stand as to why this act was of value to him as an individual. How would you act in
such a situation?
Topic #4 (Imaginative Essay)
Imagine that you have to protect your country. How can you do this? If your religion doesnt
allow you to take arms what could be the other way to serve your nation?
Topic #5 (Literary Analysis)
Write a character analysis of Andrey Sokolov showing how he changed during the course of
the story and how he remained the same honest person.

Be sure to include an
introduction, three or more
body paragraphs with
examples and a conclusion.
Write the essay and have two
or more people edit, review
and sign off on the first draft.
Correct and edit the final
version before submitting
the essay.
Put the final version on top
and the corrected version
under it.