Category: Lesson Plans

• Exploring Russian Folktales from an Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspective

  Lesson plan, PPT of NW Coast Native American traditional values and stories with links to video and audio, worksheets, texts of  Native American and Russian folktales. Using stories, literacy strategies,... Read More

• Understanding Russian Folk and Cultural History through Alexander Pushkin

  Students will analyze differentiated primary and secondary sources related to the life and work of Alexander Pushkin in order to better understand the pre-revolution folk culture of Russia. Download Lesson... Read More

• Sustaining Tradition: Trinity in Holy Russia

  Students will identify various ways people in America honor the memory of a relative or friend who has passed away, compare these practices with Russian traditional customs, and reflect on the connection... Read More

• Understanding Kindness Through Folk and Literary Texts

  Learners will examine characters in a Russian folktale and a literary text to analyze what small acts of kindness contribute to both the giver and receiver and determine a path... Read More

• Russian Children’s Clapping Games

  This slide show with audio and video demonstrates Russian children’s clapping games with their accompanying rhymes.  Students can learn the Russian games and compare them with games in their home cultures. Texts to... Read More

• Your Cultural Heritage

  This folklore project includes a look at cultural heritage generally and burial customs specifically.  By viewing and discussing a Russian commemoration ritual, students will gain awareness of the elements of folk culture... Read More

• Halloween/Day of the Dead

  After viewing a PPT presentation about Russian Trinity Day customs for honoring the dead, students will discuss and compare parallel traditions in other cultures, including the Latin American Day of the... Read More

• Russian Folklore & Trinity Celebration

  Students will interact with a Glog (online multimedia poster) describing folklore and the Russian Trinity (Troitsa) celebration. Students will access a video, two  websites, and an audio recording along with viewing photos... Read More

• Folktales

  Student discuss folk tales, compare similar Russian and American tales through reading texts and viewing animations, then write and illustrate their own folk tales.  Lesson also includes photos, narrative and... Read More

• The Cossack Robin Hood

  Students will gain an understanding of Cossack history and culture through reading a background text. They then read and compare two stories employing the “Robin Hood” theme — one a... Read More