Unit on Russia

Done... almost. I will need to put the activites together and such but now until we are close to doing the unit.

Russia

Look What Came From Russia (Miles Harvey ISBN 0531159671)
First Thousand Words in Russian (Usborne ISBN 0794510019)
Little Sister and the Month Brothers (Beatrice Schenk de Reigniers ISBN 0761455469)
Songs of Old Russia (cd music)

Week 1

People:

Rurik
Vladamir I
Attila the Hun

Related Subjects:

Russia
Time Zones
Rissian Litterature
Vikings

Additional Books and DVD Titles:

Russia (Kathleen Murrell ISBN 0751361240)
Baba Yaga, A Russian Folk Tale (Margaret Yatsevitch Phinney ISBN 157255004x)
Baba Yaga Vasilisa the Brave (Marianna Mayer ISBN 0688085001)
Russian Portraits (Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler ISBN 081146380x)
The Kingfisher Book of Tales From Russia (James Meyhew ISBN 0753452936)
When It's Six O'clock in San Francisco: A Trip Through Time Zones (Cynthia Jaynes Omololu ISBN 0618768270)
Who Were the Vikings (Usborne ISBN )


Week 2

People:

Genshis Khan
Alexander Nevsky
Ivan the Great
Ivan the Terrible

Related Subjects:

Russia
Csar/tzar/czarina
Serf
Peasant


Additional Books and DVD Titles:

Russia (Kathleen Murrell ISBN 0751361240)
Russian Portraits (Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler ISBN 081146380x)
Endless Steppe (Ester Hautzig ISBN 006440577X)
Fiddler on the Roof (dvd)

Find a book on czars


WEEK 3

People

Peter the Great
Catherine the Great
Alexander I
Nicholas I
Napoleon Bonaparte
Florence Nightingale
Alexander II
Karl Marx
Alexander Pushkin
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Leo Tolstoy

Related Subjects:

Russia
Communism
Biographies

Additional Books and DVD Titles:

Peter the Great (Diane Stanley ISBN 068816708X) *
Russian Portraits (Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler ISBN 081146380x)
Russia (Kathleen Murrell ISBN 0751361240)
The Royal Diaries: Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1743 (Kristiana Gregory ISBN 0439253853)
Fiddler on the Roof (dvd)
War and Peace (dvd) ?
Crime and Punishment (dvd) ?
Swan Lake (dvd)
Eugene Onegin (dvd)
National Geographic: Icons of Power - Empress of Ambition, Catherine the Great (dvd)
1812 Overture (cd music)
Russia: Land of the Czars (dvd)

WEEK 4

People:

Nicholas & Alexandra
Rasputin
Carl Fabergé
Anastasia
Leon Trotsky
Alexander Kerensky
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin

Related Subjects:

Russia
Hemophilia
Biographies
Fabergé Eggs
Communism
KGB

Additional Books and DVD Titles:

First Impressions: Carl Fabergé (Geza Von Habsburg ISBN 0810933248)
Fabergé's Eggs: The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire (Toby Faber ISBN 140503887)
The Royal Diaries: Anastisia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914 ISBN 0439129087)
Anastasia (dvd, 1956 & Disney)
Nicholas & Alexandra (dvd)


WEEK 5

People:

None

Related Subjects:

Snow and Glaciers
Animals/mammals
Forests/wood
Mining/metals
Aurora Borealis

Additional Books and DVD Titles:

Arctic Tundra (Donald Silver ISBN: 007057927x)
Northern Lights (George Bryson ISBN: 1570612900)
The Snowflake (Kenneth Libbretch IABN: 0896586308)
Snowflakes for all Seasons; Cindy Higham ISBN: 158685528x
Planet Earth (dvd)


Music:

Peter and the Wolf


Week 6

People:

Peter Tchaikovsky
Vaslov Nijinsky
Anna Pavlova
Rudolf Nurevyev
Mikhai; Baryshnikov

Related Subjects:

Ballet/ballerina

Additional Books and DVD Titles:

Tales from the Ballet (Barber & Wallis ISBN: 0753452626)
My Ballet Book (Kate Castle ISBN: 0751358436)
Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers: Tchaikovsky (Mik Venezia ISBN: 0516445375)
The Nutcracker (DVD)


WEEK 7

People:

Adolf Hitler
Winston Churchill
F.D. Rosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Harry Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Alger Hiss
Joseph McCarthy
Andrei Sakharov
Gary Powers
Nikita Khrushchev
Isaac Newton
Robert Goddard
Ethel & Julius Rosenberg

Related Subjects:

World War II
Cold War
Espionnage
Rocketry
Satellite Country

Additional Books and DVD Titles:

Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident (Francis Gary Powers ISBN: 1574884220)
Cold War: The American Crusade Against World Communism (James A. Warren ISBN: 0688105963)



WEEK 8

People:

Yuri Gagarin
Neil Armstrong
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Leonid Brezhev
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Related Subject:

Space Exploration
Space Race
Cuban Missile Crisis
Gymnastics
Olympics
Biographies

Additional Books and DVDS Titles:

One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong (Don Brown ISBN: 0618152393)
Cold War (see week 7)
The Cuban Missile Crisis (Nathaniel Harris ISBN: 0750241829)
The Right Stuff (dvd, Mary Apick)
Apollo 13 (dvd)
The Flight of the Bumblebee (music)
La Conquête de l'Espace: L'Espace Russe (Imavision)


WEEK 9

People:

Sergei Rachmaninov
Igor Stravinsky
Marc Chagall
Wassily Kandinsky
Boris Pasternak
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Mikhail Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin

Related Subjects:

Biographies

Additional Book and DVD Titles:

The Breakup of the Soviet Union (Bernard Harbor ISBN: 0027426254)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn ISBN: 0451531043)
Behind the Border (Nina Kossman ISBN: 0688147429)
Shoemaker Martin (Leo Tolstoy ISBN: 1558587721)
Dr Zhivago (dvd)
Prelude in C Sharp Major (music, Rachmaninov)
Firebird (music, Stravinsky)
Petruska (music, Stravinky)