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session: Russian: Russian Cities, Russian Stories

CLASSROOM AT A GLANCE Teacher Jane Shuffelton Language Russian I and IV Grades 9-12 School Brighton High School, Rochester, New York Lesson Date March 6 Class Size 20 Schedule 45 minutes; modular schedule* In this lesson, Russian I and Russian IV students meet to discuss Russian geography and the origins of Russian city names. Working…

section: Class Context

…Russian III students an interest inventory that includes Russian history, geography, music, art, literature, and political life. The students select several topics that become the themes for Russian IV the following year. The Lesson The videotaped lesson occurred on a day when the Russian I and Russian IV students met together. Among the eleven Russian…

section: Art: Books!

» Aleksandr (Alexander) Mikhailovich Rodchenko, (Russian, 1891–1956) Books! Artist / Origin: Aleksandr (Alexander) Mikhailovich Rodchenko, (Russian, 1891–1956) Region: Russia, Central and North Asia Date: 1924 Period: 1900 CE – 2010 CE Material: Color poster Medium: Prints, Drawings, and Photography Location: Rodchenko Archive, Moscow, Russia Credit: © Estate of Alexander Rodchenko/RAO, Moscow/VAGA, New York. Courtesy of…

section: Art: Icon of the Virgin of Vladimir

…from life by St. Luke. Sent to the Russian ruler by the Byzantine emperor between 1131 and 1136, the image later known as the Virgin of Vladimir was believed to have been one of St. Luke’s original paintings. Now considered the work of a twelfth century Byzantine artist, the icon came to be considered the…

lesson: Grace Paley (b. 1922)

…ear,” and the other is “the ear of the language of home . . . the language of your street and your people.” Such an intuitive ear helped define her as one of the twentieth century’s most noted American writers and “urban chroniclers.” Grace Paley was born to Russian Jewish immigrants in New York City…

section: Art: Forest as a Temple

» Vitaly Komar (Russian, b. 1943) Forest as a Temple Artist / Origin: Vitaly Komar (Russian, b. 1943) Region: Russia, Central and North Asia Date: 2007 Period: 1900 CE – 2010 CE Material: Tempera and oil on canvas Medium: Painting Dimensions: H: 72 in. (183 cm.), W: 36 in. (91.5 cm.) Location: Collection of artist…

video: View & Analyze the Video

As you reflect on these questions, write down your responses or discuss them as a group. Before You Watch Respond to the following questions: What are the challenges and benefits of differentiating instruction for heritage speakers and native speakers? What are the challenges and benefits of having them work with traditional learners? What kinds of…

section: Video Organizer Chart

All lessons are appropriate for K–12 teachers of any foreign language.

lesson: Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937)

[6241] Anonymous, Anti-Communist Poster Showing Russian Soldier and Joseph Stalin Standing over Graves in Foreground; Cannons and People Marching to Siberia in Background (1953), courtesy of the Library of Congress [LC-USZ62-117876]. Thomas Pynchon has become famous as the man who does not want to be famous. Little is known about this author’s personal life: we…

lesson: Abraham Cahan (c. 1860-1951)

…became a leading figure in the community, lecturing on socialism, organizing labor unions, teaching English to other immigrants, and writing stories and newspaper articles in Russian, English, and Yiddish. Cahan’s writing career was varied and long. He served as co-editor of the first Yiddish-language socialist weekly paper, the Neie Tzeit, and by 1890 edited the…

unit: Interview with Charles Kolb

…a facility that the Navy owned that designed rockets for military use, and I got to know rocket scientists by meeting his friends and colleagues from work. I was in junior high school when the Russians launched the first satellite and it became a matter of national priority for people to go into chemistry and…

program: Protest and Politics: 1968, Year of the Barricades

…Civil Rights Movement in the United States The Vietnam War Societal Shifts The Media Political Developments The tumult of 1968 exists on a longer continuum of history that included two world wars fought by major European powers, the United States, Japan, and other nations. Key political developments after the World War I included the Russian…

Teacher Appreciation: Defying Gravity- Teachers Who Keep Reaching

…share the history of every step – something we did not delve into much before. “Did you know we wore these character shoes because the founder of ballet – a French King – wore them?” I did not. “Did you know the story of this ballet [Swan Lake] came from a Russian folk tale about…

section: Interview with Lonnie Thompson

Interviewer: I’d like to begin by asking you about early life experiences that influenced you to go into science. LONNIE: When I look back and I look where I am now, it’s kind of a miracle, because I grew up in a small town in Gassaway, West Virginia. I grew up on the wrong side…

section: Class Context

…Program. The Glastonbury Foreign Language Program teaches Spanish in grades 1-12, French and Japanese in grades 6-12, and Russian in grades 7-12. Latin is offered in the high school. Lesson Design The teachers in the Glastonbury Foreign Language Department base their curriculum (see Resources) on the Standards. They also identify a theme to be the…

section: For What Reasons Are People Displaced?

…of citizens. A number of events and social phenomena shifted the perception of displaced peoples in the early twentieth century, which marked the emergence of the global modern refugee. Between 1914 and 1922, World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the ethno-religious “unmixing” of Greece and Turkey displaced millions of people. In 1919, the Turkish…

section: Compare: How Can Artists Use Images to Serve or Resist Institutions of Power?

Books! Artist / Origin: Aleksandr (Alexander) Mikhailovich Rodchenko, (Russian, 1891–1956) Region: Russia, Central and North Asia Date: 1924 Period: 1900 CE – 2010 CE Material: Color poster Medium: Prints, Drawings, and Photography Location: Rodchenko Archive, Moscow, Russia Credit: © Estate of Alexander Rodchenko/RAO, Moscow/VAGA, New York. Courtesy of SCALA/Art Resource, NY Fish and Rocks Artist…

section: Interview with Paul Hoffman

…about the possibility that because of the buildup of CO2 from industrial sources, is it possible that the arctic sea ice might disappear? People in northern Europe were particularly interested in this because they thought that that might improve the Russian climate, for example. And so they carried out models — these were actually some…

lesson: Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

[5683] John Doss, Allen Ginsberg at Madame Nhu Protest, 1963 (1963), courtesy of the Allen Ginsberg Trust and the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Louis, a poet and high school teacher, and Naomi, who was of Russian descent. A graduate of Paterson public schools,…

lesson: Jean Toomer (1894-1967)

…with the Russian mystic George Gurdjieff, whose work he later taught in America. He experimented with communal living, and in 1932 he married a woman he met in one of these communities, Marjorie Latimer, a white woman from a prestigious New England family. She died in childbirth after only one year of marriage. In 1934,…

section: The Causes and Evolution of Global Human Displacement

…century, which marked the emergence of the global modern refugee. Between 1914 and 1922, World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the ethno-religious “unmixing” of Greece and Turkey displaced millions of people. In 1919, the Turkish government massacred one million Armenians, and the threat of death forced hundreds of thousands of surviving Armenians out of…

section: Class Context

…Profile John Pedini teaches seventh- and eighth-grade French and Spanish at the Michael Driscoll School in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. The school’s 400 students in grades K-8 are largely from the Washington Square community, a culturally diverse neighborhood with a large immigrant population. The school hosts Brookline’s Russian bilingual program, and all students…

section: Interview with Jeremy B. C. Jackson

…very important and hopeful thing. Who wants to eat fish that was raised in a sewer? And nobody wants to eat fish that was raised in a dead zone either, especially because of all these toxic bacteria. It would be a kind of gastronomic Russian roulette. Sometimes it would be okay to eat the fish…

video: Lessons for Life: Learning and Transfer

“We don’t learn in school just to stay in school for the rest of our lives. We have to be able to transfer what we learn in one setting and use it somewhere else. In order to transfer our knowledge we have to be able to learn things in a way that is flexible, that…

video: Cosmology and Belief

In all cultures, people strive to understand their reason for being and their place in the universe. Art can be an instrument for not only recording spiritual beliefs, but also for creating myths, defining the realms of mortal and immortal, communing with ancestors, channeling forces of good, and repelling those of evil. All Video on…

video: Thinking About Thinking: Metacognition

“We can teach children to think about their thinking in ways that help them understand what they know and what they don’t know and what they’d like to learn, and to help them reflect on their learning and to evaluate their work against a continuum that they’re on. All of those kinds of thinking actually…

video: How We Organize Knowledge: The Structure of the Disciplines

“When we want to learn something new, we have to figure out what are the main guideposts in the terrain of a body of knowledge. And that’s what we call the structure of the disciplines – the big ideas, the big modes of inquiry that are used in history, mathematics, science and so on. And…

video: Conflict and Resistance

Throughout history, groups and individuals have sought not only to maintain control over their own lives, but also to assert their power over the lives of others. Visual art has played an important role in documenting such conflict and resistance. It also has served as a means for expressing personal views on politics, war, social…

session: Arabic: Comparing the Weather

CLASSROOM AT A GLANCE Teacher Wael Fawzy Language Arabic Grades 6 School LaSalle II Magnet Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois Lesson Date April 6 Class Size 8 Schedule 45 minutes, 4 times a week اضغط هنا للترجمة باللغة العربية   Video Summary In this lesson, Mr. Fawzy’s sixth-grade class continues to learn about the weather in…

workshop: Planning for Assessment

[Students] want to believe that every performance they complete, regardless of what that task or product might be, that they’re working to get better over time. Assessments are their opportunity to demonstrate knowledge, skill, and understanding. – Allison Zmuda, education consultant, Understanding by Design Learning Goals How do you plan and carry out an assessment…

video: TR and Wilson

timeline: TR and Wilson – Key Events

workshop: Engaging With Communities

Our goal is to prepare students to not only take what they have learned in the classroom and use it outside the classroom, but to take the love of that language and the interest in the culture that has happened in the classroom and take it into a community where they can continue learning it….

session: Spanish: Interpreting Picasso’s Guernica

CLASSROOM AT A GLANCE Teacher Meghan Zingle Language Spanish II Grades 10 School Glastonbury High School, Glastonbury, Connecticut Lesson Date March 1 Class Size 22 Schedule 40 minutes daily   Video Summary In this lesson, students interpret and discuss Pablo Picasso’s Guernica. First, as a class, students list vocabulary words suggested by the images in…

workshop: Valuing Diversity in Learners

When learners come into the classroom, they don’t divest themselves of their cultural experiences or their linguistic background. They bring all of that with them to the classroom. So it’s incumbent upon the teacher to accommodate that wide array of learners. – Marjorie Hall Haley, Ph.D., Associate Professor, George Mason University Learning Goals How do…

workshop: Person to Person

Classroom interaction is simple. It is the talk that occurs in classrooms between teachers and students and among students. It’s also a very complex thing in that it is the primary medium by which learning occurs in classrooms, and that’s any kind of classroom, be it a history classroom or a math classroom or a…

workshop: Meaningful Interpretation

Invoking the interpretive mode is one of the most creative ways to make a text personal to all kinds of learners. Every student in a classroom can come to appreciate a text on his or her own level. – Virginia Scott Chair of French and Italian Vanderbilt University Learning Goals How can you build your…

session: Spanish: Routes to Culture

CLASSROOM AT A GLANCE Teacher Pablo Muirhead Language SpanishII Grades 9-10 School Shorewood High School, Shorewood, Wisconsin Lesson Date November 14 Class Size 19 Schedule 49 minutes daily Video Summary In this lesson, students explore some historical and cultural aspects of the African presence in Latin America. After a warm-up activity of charades, students participate…

session: French: A Cajun Folktale and Zydeco

CLASSROOM AT A GLANCE Teacher Paris Granville Language French Grades 8 School Pleasant Hill Middle School, Pleasant Hill, California Lesson Date January 13 Class Size 22 Schedule 80 minutes every other day Video Summary In this lesson, students learn about music and storytelling in the Cajun culture. They begin by comparing Louisiana and California life….

section: Assignments + Projects

section: Social Realism – Activities

section: Online Textbook

Online Text by Natalie Roe The videos and online textbook units can be used independently. When using both, it is possible to start with either one. Watching the video first, and then reading the unit from the online textbook is recommended. Each unit was written by a prominent physicist who describes the cutting edge advances…

section: #5011

section: Migrant Struggle – Activities

section: Online Textbook

Online Text by David Pines The videos and online textbook units can be used independently. When using both, it is possible to start with either one. Watching the video first, and then reading the unit from the online textbook is recommended. Each unit was written by a prominent physicist who describes the cutting edge advances…

video: Competing Ideologies

Video Summary: From declaring war to waging peace, history is shaped by the ideological beliefs of the people who lived it. Different people hold different ideas about human nature and how a society should be organized. In his ninth-grade world history class, Wendell Brooks explains how competing ideologies drive the world events that make up…

unit: Big Ideas in Literacy – Mathematics

Introduction Welcome to the mathematics units on disciplinary literacy. These four units explore a disciplinary literacy approach to teaching mathematics that is consistent with the expectations of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM), particularly with regard to the Standards for Mathematical Practice, and is also consistent with recommendations of the National Council of…

section: Online Textbook

Online Text by William P. Reinhardt The videos and online textbook units can be used independently. When using both, it is possible to start with either one. Watching the video first, and then reading the unit from the online textbook is recommended. Each unit was written by a prominent physicist who describes the cutting edge…

video: Learning From Others: Learning in a Social Context

“Vygotsky understood that all learning is social – that we don’t actually end up doing most of our learning all by ourselves in our own heads; that we work with others, we assist one another to learn. Teachers can help students learn by consciously teaching within their zone of proximal development – right in that…

video: Global Politics: U.S.A. and the World

video: Overview

video: Introducing the Envisionment-Building Classroom

About This Video Clip “The envisionment-building classroom looks and feels like a community of learners…[where students are] able to look to each other for information, for readings, for takes on the piece that they themselves might not have had.” Judith Langer, Director National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA) State University of New…

timeline: Becoming Visible – Timeline

video: Seminar Discussion

About This Video Clip “Literary reactions in a whole-group setting are important because students get a chance to gauge the opinions of their peers. They get to see how their thinking rates with everyone else. It also puts them in a position where sometimes they have to defend what they’re thinking.” Dorothy Franklin, Teacher DeWitt…

unit: Emergent Behavior in Quantum Matter

This unit takes an approach to physics that differs markedly from much of what we have encountered in previous units. Rather than cataloging the elementary components of matter, we look at what happens at the macroscopic scale when the interactions of these components with one another and their environment lead to entirely new—emergent—behavior. After introducing…

video: Objectifying the Text

Introduction When readers step out and objectify their reading experience, they reflect on the text and their experience with it, by analyzing its words and its structure, comparing it to other texts, examining the author’s craft, and objectifying their personal responses to it. From this critical approach, readers have the opportunity to extend and examine…

timeline: Social Realism – Timeline

This timeline places literary publications (in black) in their historical contexts (in red).

video: The Fifties

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lesson: Every Rock Tells a Story | A Closer Look

A Closer Look Look for the following topics in the video, indicated by the onscreen icon, and click below to learn more. Sedimentary Rocks Fossils Supercontinents…

video: Using the Socratic Method in History

Co-teachers Addie Male and Raeann McElveen prepare students for a Socratic seminar by using multiple sources, student-generated questions, students’ personal goals, and contextual evidence. Teacher: Addie Male and Raeann McElveen School: Millennium Brooklyn High School, Brooklyn, NY Grade: 10 Discipline: History (Humanities 11) Lesson Topic: Voices from the field: Perspectives of the soldiers Lesson Month:…

unit: Building New Neural Networks

video: Developing Questions that Promote Discussion

Co-teachers Addie Male and Raeann McElveen discuss how to get students to develop questions that generate good classroom discussion. Teacher: Addie Male and Raeann McElveen School: Millennium Brooklyn High School, Brooklyn, NY Grade: 10 Discipline: History (Humanities 11) Lesson Topic: Voices from the field: Perspectives of the soldiers Lesson Month: March Number of Students: 25…

section: Constitutional Convention — Student Perspectives

At the time these students were interviewed they were seniors at Benjamin Banneker Senior High School in Washington, D.C., where they were enrolled in an AP Comparative Government course taught by Matt Johnson. The interviews were conducted in connection with their participation in a simulation in which students worked in cooperative groups to develop a…

lesson: Anzia Yezierska (1880-1970)

[5088] Anonymous, Anzia Yezierska after the Birth of Her Child (c. 1912), courtesy of Melvin Henriksen. In the course of a career that spanned more than fifty years, Anzia Yezierska recorded Eastern European women immigrants’ struggles to find a place for themselves both within their traditional Jewish culture and within American society. Yezierska’s goal as…

timeline: The God of Small Things – Map & Timeline

The shaded area shows the region of Kerala. © 2010 Map Resources, All rights reserved. All of the action of the novel takes place in this small region of southern India, Kerala. It is far from the big, glamorous cities in the north and east, a seemingly sleepy backwater where terrible human dramas are played…

video: The New City

video: World War II

section: Online Textbook

timeline: The Redemptive Imagination – Timeline, 1876 – 1999

Revisit the events of 1876 – 1999…

session: French: Comparing Communities

CLASSROOM AT A GLANCE Teacher Ghislaine Tulou Language French III Grades 9-12 School McLean High School, McLean, Virginia Lesson Date March 21 Class Size 26 Schedule 94 minutes every other day Video Summary In this lesson, students discuss community life at home and abroad and practice new grammatical structures. First, students share what they like…

section: Art: Coffin of Henettawy

» Unknown Artist, Deir el-Bahri, western Thebes, Egypt Coffin of Henettawy Artist / Origin: Unknown Artist, Deir el-Bahri, western Thebes, Egypt Region: Africa Date: Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 1040 BCE–992 BCE Period: 3000 BCE – 500 BCE Material: Gessoed and painted wood Medium: Other Dimensions: H: 79 7/8 in. (203 cm.) Location: The…

video: Thinking and Communicating Like a Historian

Steve Lazar discusses how teaching his students the specific language of his discipline gives them the tools to better discuss and write about content. Teacher: Steve Lazar School: Harvest Collegiate High School, New York, NY Grade: 10 Discipline: History/Social Studies Lesson Topic: Writing about complicated things (“It’s Complicated”) Lesson Month: March Number of Students: 20…

workshop: Subjects Matter

By creating content-based activities, you create a context in which there’s a reason to learn the language, there’s a reason to learn the grammar, there’s a reason to learn the vocabulary. And you’re not putting the students in the position of waiting until they know the language well enough to be able to talk about…

section: Expert Interview Transcript: Laurie Garret

Journalist, Newsday Garret is the author of the books The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. She is also a medical and science writer for Newsday, in New York City. For her work, she has been awarded The Peabody, The…

video: View & Analyze the Video

Video Summary In “Valuing Diversity in Learners,” Professor Marjorie Hall Haley of George Mason University in Virginia talks about ways of addressing multiple learning styles and levels in a standards-based foreign language classroom. Professor Haley also joins a round-table discussion on effective instructional practices for diverse learners and methods for connecting research to practice. The…

video: Organizing Atoms and Electrons: The Periodic Table

For centuries, chemists tried different methods to organize elements around patterns of chemical and physical trends, or regularities, eventually leading to the modern periodic table. Electron configuration is a powerful predictive tool, a simple extension from the periodic table. Physical characteristics, including atomic radius and reactivity, all depend on electron configuration and can be teased…

video: Remembering and Forgetting

Essay: The Biology of Memory Memory is defined as stored information. When we take in information — a lecture, for example — neurotransmitters in the brain are working to filter and store the information in memory. While it sounds simple, memory is a complex and dynamic process that relies on a series of factors. At…

video: The Energy in Chemical Reactions: Thermodynamics and Enthalpy

The phrase “chemical reaction” conjures up images of explosions, bubbling gases, flames, and smoke. So many chemical reactions have visible results because energy is being transferred from one form to another—the realm of thermodynamics. Thermodynamics provides rules for predicting the progress of a reaction and for harnessing the energy released. It is key to solving…

lesson: Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

[7110] H. C. White Company, Making Link Sausages–Machines Stuff 10 Ft. per Second (c. 1905), courtesy of the Library of Congress [LC-USZ62-50217]. Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and is best known for his 1906 muckraking novel, The Jungle. He received a degree from the College of the City of New York and did…

timeline: Migrant Struggle – Timeline

This timeline places literary publications (in black) in their historical contexts (in red).

video: Making Writing Explicit in Social Studies

In teaching disciplinary writing strategies, Steve Lazar has his social studies students use a personal experience to practice using cause and effect language and then applies the language to content. Teacher: Steve Lazar School: Harvest Collegiate High School, New York, NY Grade: 10 Discipline: History/Social Studies Lesson Topic: Writing about complicated things (“It’s Complicated”) Lesson…

section: Assignments + Projects

unit: Seeing Others from the Self

video: Learning

Experiment: How Pigeons Learn Self Control In the study of behavior, operant behavior is affected by the environment, and operative conditioning is used to reinforce behavioral change. Behavioral psychologist Dr. Howard Rachlin used operant conditioning to study ways of developing self-control in pigeons. Dr. Rachlin chose to use pigeons because they can be a particularly…

session: French: Family and Home

CLASSROOM AT A GLANCE Teacher Debra Terry Language French Grades 5 School Rebecca M. Johnson Elementary School, Springfield, Massachusetts Lesson Date January 15 Class Size 25 Schedule 45 minutes, three times per week Video Summary In this lesson, students learn and review vocabulary that refers to family members, rooms of the house, and activities in…