Topic(s): E. Religion, Myths & Legends, Heroes
Performance Target: Intermediate High-CEFR B1
Students explore legends’ heroes and a day of Yuriy Gagarin's life linking folklore, art and history together. Students will be reflecting on heroes features and actions.
Every hero is a human, but not every human is a hero.
Real people and their significant actions may become legends.
Every true hero is a patriot of her/his/their country.
Bravery, respect to labor, love to the home country drive heroes’ actions.
Heroes’ qualities and values are intercultural.
What makes someone a hero?
What does a day in the life of a hero look like?
Is every hero a patriot?
What are heroes’ values and beliefs?
Are heroes’ qualities and values intercultural?
I can investigate what makes someone a hero.
I can infer historical and cultural meaning from the painting.
I can infer meaning from the Russian folk story and a song.
I can define Russian heroes’ main qualities.
I can compare the similarities and differences in Russian and American traditional values.
I can present information about American hero main qualities.
Students listen to Yuriy Gagarin talking about his flight to space, watch the cartoon and reflect on real hero’s features and actions.
What elements of the story are creative imaginations and what happened in real life? List these elements in two tables.
Discuss your findings and come up with the real story that happened to Yuriy Gagarin on April 12, 1961.
Create a story describing a day of an American hero's life.
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Communicative Mode |
Formative Assessments during the lessons, aligning Connections, Comparisons and Communities. | Performance Assessment Student Statements(PASS) | Language, culture, content for each task | Intercultural Competence Can Do's | |
| Interpretive Listening |
Watch https://youtu.be/fKdE8g0cucQ Connections Watch the video about Vasnetsov’s painting Bogatyri. Label as many objects as you can accordantly. Find examples of symbolism in the painting. |
I can understand a few ideas about the painting. |
Review Past Tens verbs (R) Descriptive adjectives (S) Adjectives Genitive Case Plural (N) |
I can infer historical and cultural meaning from the painting. | |
| Interpersonal Speaking |
Watch https://youtu.be/fKdE8g0cucQ Connections Discuss your findings with your peers. Play a Hedbanz game. |
I can ask and provide information about specific painting. |
Spiral Descriptive adjectives (S) Past Tens verbs (R) Adjectives Genitive Case Plural (N) |
I can infer historical and cultural meaning from the painting. | |
| Presentational Speaking |
Watch https://youtu.be/fKdE8g0cucQ Connections Bring Bogatyri to life! Your dialogs should be historically accurate. |
I can present ideas about historical event, or a famous person. |
Review Descriptive adjectives (S) Past Tens verbs (R) Adjectives Genitive Case Plural (N) |
I can infer historical and cultural meaning from the painting. | |
| Interpretive Reading |
Listen https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSqYqVu95C1hs-KTmM-GRsrwWmD3_r2HRviY1SZXa5c_HQcUMsDxG8yhjHLfqc98sbT9jq4u6qtEp7U/pub Comparison With the teacher’s help read a paragraph from the legend about Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber. Fill in a story map. |
I can understand the main idea and a few supporting facts about famous people and historical events. |
Review Past Tense verbs (R) Descriptive adjectives (S) Prepositional Case Plural Nouns and Adjectives (N) |
I can infer meaning from the Russian folk story and a song. | |
| Interpersonal Speaking |
Listen https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSqYqVu95C1hs-KTmM-GRsrwWmD3_r2HRviY1SZXa5c_HQcUMsDxG8yhjHLfqc98sbT9jq4u6qtEp7U/pub Comparison Discuss Ilya’s actions with your peers. What makes him a hero? |
I can ask and provide information about main character actions. |
Review Past Tense verbs (R) Descriptive adjectives (S) Prepositional Case Plural Nouns and Adjectives (N) |
I can define Russian heroes’ main qualities. | |
| Presentational Writing |
Listen https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSqYqVu95C1hs-KTmM-GRsrwWmD3_r2HRviY1SZXa5c_HQcUMsDxG8yhjHLfqc98sbT9jq4u6qtEp7U/pub Comparison Every family has its own hero. Write a lagend about your family’s hero. |
I can write a simple story about someone from my family. |
Review Past Tense verbs (R) Descriptive adjectives (S) Prepositional Case Plural Nouns and Adjectives (N) |
I can define Russian heroes’ main qualities.I can compare the similarities and differences in Russian and American traditional values. I can present information about American hero main qualities. | |
| Interpretive Listening |
Listen https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yqT19ozlyVNnukTeCZhV_W_17fubdybOM1Pcglw2iWE/edit Communities Read and summarize an article about Valentina Tereshkova. Give the pictures in the article a title or caption. |
I can understand the main idea and a few supporting facts about famous people and historical events. |
Review Complex sentences with ЧТО (R) Past Tense verbs (S) Complex sentence with ЛИ (N) |
I can investigate what makes someone a hero. | |
| Interpersonal Speaking |
Listen https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yqT19ozlyVNnukTeCZhV_W_17fubdybOM1Pcglw2iWE/edit Comparison There are real women heroes. Discuss them with your peers. Write down their names and actions that made them heroes. |
I can ask and provide information about famous people and their significant actions. |
Review Complex sentences with ЧТО Past Tense verbs (S) Complex sentence with ЛИ (N) |
I can define Russian heroes’ main qualities. | |
| Presentational Writing |
Listen https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yqT19ozlyVNnukTeCZhV_W_17fubdybOM1Pcglw2iWE/edit Communities Create a Google slide presentation (4-5 slides) about one of the women heroes presenting their short biography and famous actions. |
I can present ideas about historical event, or a famous person. |
Review Complex sentences with ЧТО Past Tense verbs (S) Complex sentence with ЛИ (N) |
I can compare the similarities and differences in Russian and American traditional values. I can present information about American hero main qualities. |
Once our cosmonauts https://youtu.be/CGt2s8KvhGc
Video about the painting:
https://youtu.be/fKdE8g0cucQ
Ilya Muromets https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSqYqVu95C1hs-KTmM-GRsrwWmD3_r2HRviY1SZXa5c_HQcUMsDxG8yhjHLfqc98sbT9jq4u6qtEp7U/pub
Valentina Tereshkova https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yqT19ozlyVNnukTeCZhV_W_17fubdybOM1Pcglw2iWE/edit