Russian Lesson Plans

Students study language. In this unique alphabets lesson, students read the article by Michael Everson "For the World's A B C's, He Makes 1's and 0's." They discuss the importance of alphabets and work in small groups to create a poster on a language they research. This lesson includes vocabulary, resource links, suggestions for assessment, and ideas for extension activities.

Students discuss concepts covered in previous sessions. They view a picture of a Russian church and describe the architectural style. Students view a picture of the hagia Sophia and discuss similiarities between it and the russian church. Students shd in the Byzantine and Russian territories on a map. They complete a chart about the eastern movement of European culture.

Students begin practicing with the Russian language. They are to write and speak on a very low level. In groups, they answer questions together.

Students investigate the role of the Byzantine Empire in Russian History by conducting research from a variety of internet resources. They find a picture of the Hagia Sophia and sketch it according to its realism and identify its architectural features.

Ninth graders use authentic texts to acquire information about an average Russian home and to compare and contrast a Russian home with a home in the U.S. Students participate in a variety of activities focused on the mode of communication.

Learners locate Russia on a world map and the city of St. Petersburg and identify the Russian monetary unit. They identify landmarks in St. Petersburg and the primary religion. They then identify Peter the Great and Czar Nicholas II.

Students examine the purposes of language and consider a new language developed for a video game. They research world languages and create pages for a class book on languages, and write reflective essays examining their own relationship with language.

Learners in seventh and eighth grade Introduction to Foreign Language class are introduced the basic greetings, farewells, courtesy words, and basic phrases in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Korean. In pairs, they create a very short dialogue in one of these languages.

Sixth graders, after researching several cities in Russia, create a report comparing and contrasting two of the cities. From their present point, they explore facts and photos depicting history from a different perspective in a different part of the world.

Students brainstorm and discuss the concept of cryptography, the science of secrets in today's world and then focus on a system for sending secret messages used by Julius Caesar. They make a Caesar wheel assessing encrypting and decrypting coded messages.