COURSE OUTCOMES

RUSSIAN IV NATIVE

(SECONDARY)

(July 2015)

Russian IV Native (Secondary) is designed for sixteen and seventeen year-old Russian native speakers and Russian near-native speakers. Near-native speakers are those students who are able to speak like natives but lack academic language, reading and writing skills.Our near-native speakers(multilingual students who come from mixed marriages) who are fluent in conversational Russian will be enrolled in the Russian IV Native course. If these students will encounter some difficulty, they will be free to complete a fewer number of units in this course.

Russian IV Native is an equivalent to the eleventh grade of the native Russian language curriculum.

This course is designed to teach students proper grammatical formulation of sentences, both in written and oral forms. The students will be introduced to the Russian Literature of the 20th Century. This is the most advanced level of Russian language and the students will demonstrate detailed knowledge of Russian language and literature. The students will analyze texts of Russian authors, including the works of I.Bunin, A.Kuprin, M.Gorky, M.Bulgakov and many more. They will read various poems of the Silver Age of Poetry.

Students will be introduced to the biographies and creative periods of many authors, emphasizing similarities and differences in their style and approach. The students will be expected to have a broader understanding of literary trends and the role of literature in society. Various literary genres will be studied, such as novels, drama, comedy, tragedy, and essay. The students will be introduced to literature that reflectsWorld War IIand will read modern publications about this special period.

This course supports and is aligned to the success orientations, competencies, and knowledge noted in the QSI Program Outcomes. Russian IV Native consists of ten essential units. This course is divided into Essential Outcomes and Introduced/Practiced Outcomes. The Essential Outcomes must be assessed for mastery. The Introduced/ Practiced Outcomes are intended to expose the student to skills that will be mastered in a future essential unit, engage the student in ongoing and necessary skills, and to practice the outcomes previously taught.

The normal pace for this course leads to mastery of ten essential units for those QSI schools that offer Russian IV Native five times a week. Depending on the individual school programs, Russian IV Native could be allotted five periods per week with a period being a minimum of 45 minutes.

An outline of the ten essential units follows. These units are primarily designed to be taught in order.

Essential Units:

E01 – Realism and Modernism

E02 – Early 20th Century Prose. I.Bunin, A.Kuprin

E03 – Silver Age of Poetry

E04 – M. Gorky

E05 – Russian Literature Abroad

E06 –M. Bulgakov The Heart of a Dog

E07 –20th Century Poetry (M.Tsvetayeva, A.Akhmatova)

E08 – S.Yesenin, V.Mayakovsky

E09 – The World War II in Literature

E10 – ModernPublications

Suggested Materials and Tools:

  1. Русская литература. Учебник - хрестоматия для 11 класса.
  2. Русская литература. 11 класс, часть 1, 2
  3. 400 лучших школьных сочинений. 5 – 11 классы.
  4. Тексты художественных произведений изучаемых авторов.
  5. Any appropriate teacher-created or teacher-selected materials

Supplementary Materials:

  1. Video The Heart of a Dog
  2. Video The Fate of a Man

Please see below two general evaluation rubrics for written and oral assignments. These rubrics are simply provided to assist teachers in determining A,B and P levels.

RUSSIAN IV NATIVE

(Secondary)

Name: ______Date: ______Grade: ______

  1. General Assessment Rubrics for Written Assignments (The written assignment requires personal writing on the development of ideas and the transformation of personal response into a formal essay)

GRADES / Descriptors:Knowledge and understanding of the given work; appreciation of the writer’s choice; organization and development; language/message.
‘A’ LEVEL / The essay shows a detailed knowledge and understanding of, and perseptive insight into, the work used for the assignment. There is an excellent appreciation of the ways in which the language, structure, technique and style shape meaning. Ideas are persuasively organized and developed, with effectively integrated examples from the work used. Language is very clear, effective, carefully chosen and precise, with a high degree of accuracy in grammar, vocabulary and sentence construction. Register and style are effective and appropriate to the assignment.
‘B’ LEVEL / The essay shows knowledge and understanding of, and some insight into, the work used for the assignment. There is an adequate appreciation of the ways in which language, structure, technique and style shape meaning. Ideas are adequately organized and developed, with appropriately integrated examples from the works used. Language is clear and carefully chosen, with an adequate degree of accuracy in grammar, vocabulary and sentence construction despite some lapses. Register and style are mostly appropriate to the assignment.
‘P’ LEVEL / The work does not reach a standard described by the descriptors.
The essay shows some knowledge but little understanding of the work used for the assignment. There is some mention, but little appreciation, of the ways in which language, structure, technique and style shape meaning. There is some attempt to organize ideas, but little use of examples from the works used. Language is rarely clear and appropriate; there are many errors in grammar, vocabulary and sentence construction, and little sense of register and style.
  1. General Assessment Rubrics for Oral Assignments:

GRADES / Level Descriptors: Knowledge and understanding of the works; Presentations; Language.
‘A’ LEVEL / There is a good knowledge and understanding of the content and most of the implications of the work(s) presented. Delivery of the presentation is effective, with good strategies used to interest the audience. The language is clear and appropriate, with register and style well suited to the choice of presentation.
‘B’ LEVEL / There is an adequate knowledge and understanding of the content and some of the implications of the work(s) presented. Delivery of the presentation is generally appropriate and shows an intention to interest the audience. The language is mostly appropriate, with some attention paid to register and style suited to the choice of presentation
‘P’ LEVEL / The work does not reach a standard described by the descriptors.
There is very limited knowledge of the content of the work(s) presented. Delivery of the presentation does not reach the standards, with little attempt to interest the audience. The language is inappropriate, with little attempt to choose register and style suited to the choice of presentation.

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