Activities for this chapter
- Russian Orthodox chant, starts at 1:25:
Russian Cossack dancing:
- how to do Russian Cossack dance:
- learn about "Russian peasant multiplication" (it's not just Russian, it is also known as Egyptian multiplication), here is the Wikipedia page on multiplication--well-worth reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication_algorithm, Wikipedia page on Ancient Egyptian multiplication: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_multiplication, http://m3eal.dm.unipi.it/images/doc/07.teaching_materials/07/NO_TeachingUnit_EN_web.pdf http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.peasant.html, http://www.math.ucla.edu/~radko/circles/lib/data/Handout-283-344.pdf, http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Programming-Praxis-Russian-Peasant-Multiplication, explanation with story with pebbles: https://originsofmathematics.com/2012/01/26/russian-peasant-multiplication/, proof: http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2014/08/27/the-egyptian-method-russian-peasant-multiplication-video-and-a-proof/#.U_5I5vldV8E
- Russian alphabet: https://crees.ku.edu/sites/crees.ku.edu/files/files/lesson-plans/Lesson%20Plan_Russian%20Alphabet%20Soup.pdf, http://www.education.com/worksheets/russian+alphabet/, http://gadling.com/2009/03/30/gadling-teaches-you-to-read-the-cyrillic-alphabet-in-5-minutes/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabets
- serfdom and its abolition: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001411/141141e.pdf
- turning pictures/two-way pictures/three-way pictures: Turning Pictures in Shakespeare's England: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3049597?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents, American Art's Three-Way Portrait: http://eyelevel.si.edu/2014/01/q-and-art-american-arts-three-way-portrait.html, Gaspar Antoine de Bois-Clair: http://www.robertsimon.com/pdfs/boisclair_portraits.pdf, three-way picture diy from Easy-to-Make Old-Fashioned Toys: https://books.google.com/books?id=1fcqzLIgUxwC&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=corrugated+pictures+three+way+pictures&source=bl&ots=zRWrzz2CZr&sig=UYfOwCOM3lJbqXFtfi2oBX9Ej_M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ6O7d6fjQAhUJ1GMKHQ_JDYsQ6AEILTAG#v=onepage&q=corrugated%20pictures%20three%20way%20pictures&f=false, lenticular diy from photojojo: http://content.photojojo.com/diy/how-to-make-lenticular-images/
What we did:
We learned how to dance like Cossacks, how to read in Russian, and how to multiply like Russian peasants. And we made lenticular pictures:
For show-and-tell, a skit about a king cutting off his subjects' beards:
and a stone necklace:
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