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Rebecca Jane Stanton
Russian Language Teaching Portfolio
Student Evaluations:
Sample Teaching Materials:
Elementary Russian I and II
- Sample lesson plan:
- Other materials and handouts (all in PDF format unless otherwise noted):
Intermediate Russian I and II
- Syllabus (Intermediate Russian II, Summer 2015; PDF)
- Sample Teaching Materials
- Materials for teaching with the film Берегись автомобиля (Mosfilm, 1966):
- Sample class plan for teaching with Russian paintings
(developed in collaboration with Alisa Ballard at STARTalk 2014, Middlebury College):
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Russian lesson plan (Intermediate mid/high): Narrating a Painting
Learning objectives: Students will be able to identify story elements in a painting and link their observations into a coherent narrative. (The goal is to move them toward "speaking in paragraphs.")
Lexical, grammatical, and cultural material covered: Vocabulary for emotions, family members and related persons (невеста, сваха, etc.); examples of 19th-c. and early 20th-c. Russian realist painting; some exposure to traditional Russian customs and religion (in limited social contexts)
- Communicative exercises and activities
- Grammar handouts and exercises (all in PDF format unless otherwise noted):
- Exercise on nasal-stem
"taking" verbs (взять, снять, понять, etc.)
- Usage of "то, что...,"
"то, как..." etc. -- brief explanation and exercises
- Unprefixed
verbs of motion (MD and UD, both aspects, all tenses): usage
chart with exercises
- Vocab/grammar exercise
on "fitting-room vocabulary" (эти сапоги мне малы,
etc.), based on reading exercise "The Three Bears"
- Imperative
formation flow chart
- Table: Summary
of 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-person imperatives (form, usage)
- Quiz on imperatives (1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-person types)
Twentieth-Century Prose Writers
a "language through content" seminar on short works of the 1920s, in Russian
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