One member of each group should describe in 25 words or less the project, provide a link or access to the project, identify all contributors and if possible indicate the major contributions of each to the final project.
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Lermontov:
Kaylen Baker, Brett Basarab, Matthew Lazarus, Ben Tabb
We made a facebook page for Lermontov and some of the important people in his life and his characters.
You should be able to friend him here:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1696712396&ref=profile
and once you’re friends with him, you should be able to see all of the other profiles.
It’s hard to determine who did what, as we all contributed in researching and putting together each page, and we came up with the script and the ideas together.
Tolstoi: Anna Karenina
Hannah Wilson, Jennifer Ridder, Elise Hanks
This blog site provides insight into the writings of Tolstoi, specifically his novel Anna Karenina. The site includes a reader’s guide with discussion questions and highlighted important quotes, images that present the themes of Russian art from Tolstoi’s era that are relfected in his works, a brief biography of Tolstoi’s life and a complilation of materials that reveal his theories, interests, and inspiration, a modern blog from a modern fictional Anna K, and links to other resources for the reader.
Hannah compiled the Tolstoi information, Jenn compiled the media for the artwork, and Elise constructed the reader’s guide. All members contributed to the blog and formatting of the site.
Corrected Version:
We made fifteen podcasts including analytical, historical, and biographical information on Turgenev and his work and posted them to http://turgenevtalk.wordpress.com (go/turgtalk) and the iTunes store.
and add…
Cathy – Research/commentary on criticisms of Turgenev
Sophie – Research/commentary on his biography
Ashley – Research/commentary on the historical period
Casey – Technical/web setup
…plus we each read/researched/analyzed additional works of Turgenev’s.
Elise forgot to post our website address:
http://www.sites.middlebury.edu/tolstoi
hope you enjoy!
19th-Century Russian Literature Group:
Harry Morgenthau, Gabriel Suarez, Natalie Komrovsky, Susanna Merrill
We created a website with Flash animation in which various people and objects in an illustrated drinking-hole scene provide cultural and historical information. There are four difference scenes/pages, progressing chronologically.
https://seguecommunity.middlebury.edu/sites/nkomrovs
[double-click on the file “Russian Lit 1”]
Harry: all technical aspects, tsars
Gabe: maps
Natalie: the customers, drawing the scene
Susanna: religion, peasants, random objects in room
Everyone: awesome drawings of peasants
test post
Gogol Group: Patrick O’Neill, Adam Levine, Alicia Wright
We made a wiki page on wetpaint.com about Nikolai Gogol, his life, works, and influences, with text, pictures, and links to videos.
Patrick – Gogol’s live
Stewart – Short Stories
Alicia – Dead Souls
Adam – Influences
We also met as a group several times to collaborate in general about our plans and information.
http://middgogolgroup.wetpaint.com/
Additional work included research on historical background of each time period (1800, 1825, 1850, 1875) (basically into about 1/4 century around each time period)
Harry: All technical aspects, political history and history of tsars
Gabe: Military history, classical music (which couldn’t end up going on flash animation), change of borders throughout the century
Natalie: Intellectual history (importance of landowners, students, populists, Decembrists, officials, etc)
Susanna: history of religion and peasants, additional cultural photographs
Each person also had to come up with a timeline of important events in their area of research, doing a general survey of 19th century Russian society, and pick out the most important information. In addition, everyone contributed to creating the actual scene (as it was created from scratch). Among the sources we used was Ronald Hingley’s “Russian Writers and Society, 1825-1904”