Our first speaker this morning was a high school teacher from Phoenix (who went on the inaugural Fulbright program in 2004) who presented a lesson plan from a course she designed called "Teaching Russian History through Literature in High School." I got to thinking about my half-semester course proposals for surveys of Russian history and 19th century Russian authors at Mansfield High School and may use her course as a model for combining the two... I think it would work out really well and I have access, now, to some great resources.
After lunch, we found out more about the American Home in Vladimir. Dr. Pope ran us through a pretty good slide show and offered all sorts of heads-up info about our visits to Vladimir and Murom. I'm really excited about going!!
We ended the afternoon with some videos... Mostly about Russian families, interviews with kids-- stuff we could use in the classroom, really. Then we ended on Paul McCartney's 2003 concert in Red Square...
Tomorrow is a morning-only wrap-up session. After that, I plan to sleep as much as possible before we have to get on a 3:30am bus the following morning...
That's it for now. Off to dinner...
Poka!
