HOMEWORK CALENDAR

Below you will find a calendar containing all homework assignments for Kristine Shmakov's RUS 201 class. I will make every effort to post HW assignments by 7 pm the day that they are made.  Assignments are always due at the begining of the next class session. If you are absent, make sure to check whether we will be having an in-class assignment next class, so that you can prepare for it. At the end of the calendar, you'll find a list of homework completion guidlines. If you have any questions regarding the homework, please call me at (503) 977-4841 or email me at kshmakov@pdxlink.com


  Fall quarter homework assignments and class activities:

Monday, Sept. 21:
Homework 1: p. 1 ex. 1 and 2.

Today's class activities: Went over syllabus and course guidelines; vocabulary introduction p. 11-12; verbs that take             infinitives; p. 21-22 oral exercise; impersonal expressions; p. 23 written exercise; verb умееть conjugation; p. 24 oral         interview.

Wednesday, Sept. 23:
HW 2: p. 1 ex. 3, p. 2 ex. 5, p. 54-55.
    Learn the verbs on p. 11-12 and know how to conjugate them.

Today's class activities: Read Dasha's letter, p. 1 Live from Moscow book; Watched episode 1 of Live from Moscow and     did listening comprehension exercises and discussed episode. Reported information from p. 24. Reviewed how to             conjugate Type I, Ia, II and овать/евать verbs. Classified all verbs on p. 11-12 as to verb type. Did p. 35 ex. 12, p. 32     ex. 9 and also interview similar to p. 34 ex. 11.

Monday, Sept. 28:
HW 3: p. 2 ex. 6, p. 3 ex. 8, p. 56-57. (All assignments from HW book.)
    Do corrections for HW 1. (Please correct the mistakes in a different color pen above the original mistake. Do not     erase your original mistake and write over it, rewrite the assignment or put corrections on a separate page. This     makes it much harder for me to check your corrections. mework corrections are worth 3 pts, and they are due the next     class after you receive the homework back from me. Late homework corrections will not be accepted.)
    Learn the verbs on p. 11-12 and know how to conjugate them.

Today's class activities: Watched episode 2 LFM (Live from Moscow) and did accompanying exercises. Wrote sentences     in pairs using new verbs. Played die game or battleship to practice conjugating verbs. Read text on p. 27-28, watched         slide show and discussed text. Discussed p. 31 in pairs. Began to watch Internet video with answer sheet on p. 39-40.     We will finish this next class.

Wednesday, Sept. 30:
HW 4: p. 2 ex. 7. Prepare for in-class assignment. I will include only the new verbs from p. 11-12. (Not old verbs like         читать, писать, играть, готовить, слушать, смотреть, работать). Your sentences should be simple for this.
HW 5: p. 4 ex. 9, p. 58-59.
Do corrections for HW 2.
Know adjective endings in nominative and accusative case.

Today's class activities: Finished up video p. 39-40. Reviewed nominative case adjective endings with p. 41 in pairs. (See p. 18 for grammar). Reviewed accusative case adjective endings by doing p. 42 together as a class. (See p. 19-20 for grammar.). Wrote p. 43 in pairs. Learned new verbs that take accusative case on p. 44. (p. 20 has grammar) and then wrote p. 45 ex. 20 in pairs. We will finish going over this exercise next class.

Monday, Oct. 5th:
HW 6: p. 4 ex. 10, p. 60-61.
Do corrections for HW 3.
Learn new verbs that take accusative case and accusative case endings.

Today's class activities: Watched episode 3 Live from Moscow and did accompanying exercises. Finished going over p. 45 ex. 20. Did a story writing exercise with new accusative verbs. p. 49-50 I and II-story preview work. Listened to p. 51 story being read. Did p. 53 ex. 1 orally in pairs.

Wednesday, Oct. 7th:
HW 7: p. 5 ex. 1. Prepare for in-class assignment. You will need to be able to write all the words in Russian.
HW 8: p. 5 ex. 2 and p. 65-67 (You don't have to turn in p. 66).
Do corrections for HW 4 and 5.
Learn all animal vocabulary well.

Today's class activities: Discussed story "Первые цветы"and did p. 53 ex. 1 and 2. Started ch. 2 on animals. Did p. 79 ex. 1, p. 81 ex. 3 and 4 all orally. Went over new adjectives and verbs for animals on p. 82. Did an oral activity with plastic toy animals stating what you like or don't like about certain animals. "Мне нравятся слоны потому что они огромные. Мне нравится, как они ходят."Finally, went through animal proverbs on p. 84 and figured out what they meant.

Monday, Oct. 12th: (10 people were out sick today!)
HW 9: p. 5 ex. 3, p. 6 ex. 4 (change directions to read 12 animals!), and p. 6 ex. 5.
Do corrections for HW 6.
Learn endings for animate accusative plural.

Today's class activities: Watched episode 4 LFM and did accompanying exercises. (If you were absent, you can use script at the back of the LFM booklet.); Did in-class assignment on animal vocabulary. Introduction to animate plural nouns in the accusative case (I love walruses.) See p. 69-71. Did interview on p. 95 to find out which animals people love and reported info. Went to the Nizhniy Novgorod Zoo on p. 96-97 and decided what we wanted to see. Reviewed difference between adjectives and adverbs. Did a modified version of p. 98-99. (You can do ex. in book if you were gone.)

Wednesday, Oct. 14th: (11 people out sick today! Hope everyone's healthy soon.)
HW 10: p. 6 ex. 6, p. 70-72.
HW 11: p. 7 ex. 7. Prepare for in-class.
Do corrections for HW 7 and 8.
Learn endings for animate accusative plural

Today's class activities: Read text on p. 100-101; answered questions about text on p. 102. Discussed pets you have/have had using p. 103. Preview vocabulary exercise for story on p. 104-107. Read p. 105-107 in pairs. Watched cartoon version of story. (posted on class website under Трое из Простоквашино. Answered questions on p. 108 about story. Did writing activity on p. 109.

Monday, Oct. 20th: (Another 13 people out sick today! I feel so badly for all of you!)
HW 12: p. 74-80 (two reading selections.)
HW 13, which will be for next Monday, not Wednesday: Learn all the imperfective/perfective infinitive pairs on p.        
    110-111. (Use reference list on p. 73-74 if you were sick to fill in exercises.)
Do corrections for HW 9.

Today's class activities: Watched episode 5 LFM and did accompanying exercises. (If you were absent, you can use script     at the back of the LFM booklet.); Reviewed perfective infinitives for first year verbs on p. 110. Reviewed use of            
    perfectives for series and did an exercise on the overhead that's not in text. Reviewed use of perfectives for completed     actions and did another exercise on overhead that's not in text. Learned perfective infinitives for new verbs on p. 111;    
    played tic tac to with new verbs- handout from class, but you can also do p. 112 in book.
    If you were absent today, you will be able to make up the in-class assignment on animals when you return to class.

Wednesday, Oct. 22th:
HW 13: Learn all the imperfective/perfective infinitive pairs on p. 110-111 for an in-class assignment. I will provide a list     of 57 imperfective infinitives. You'll need to write the perfective infinitives for at least 25 to get a score of 10. Extra         credit will be donned upon those who get more than 25 correct.
HW 14: Fairy tale Морозко p. 8-15.  CIRCLE the correct verb.
Do corrrections for HW 10 and 11.
Learn all imperfective and perfective pairs.

Today's class activities: Played a board game to practive imp./perf. verb pairs. Reviewed main uses of imperfective and         perfective verbs in past tense. (See p. 76-78.); Read p. 114-121 together and discussed usage of verbal aspect (imp. vs.     perf.); p. 122-choose correct verb; p. 126-127 more choosing the correct verb; p. 124 aswered questions using realia on     p. 123 and 124. Started p. 125 for last 5 minutes of class. Will continue this on Monday.

Monday, Oct. 26th:
HW 15: p. 16 ex. 11- Write a connected story using the pictures in the past tense. Write a minimum of 3 sentences for each picture. + p. 81-83.
Do corrections for HW 12.

Today's class activities: Watched episode 6 LFM and did accompanying exercises. (If you were absent, you can use script     at the back of the LFM booklet.) Reviewed imp./perf. pairs with flashcards; Took in-class quiz on verb pairs; Finished     p. 125 ex. 23. Orally told story about p. 16 ex. 11 in homework book. Then each group received an overhead with one     picture. They wrote as much as they could about that part of the story. Then we went over the overhead in order as a         class to see how the whole story turned out.

Wednesday, Oct. 28th:
HW 16: p. 17 ex. 13, p. 18 ex. 14 and p. 87-89. (Use the master verb list in your green grammar book to check verb conjugations)
Do corrections for HW 13 and 14.
Learn all verb conjugations for the perfective verbs we covered in class.

Today's class activities: Introduction to perfective future and structure of Russian verbs. (See p. 71-72 in text.) Contrasting
    imperfective and perfective future formation. Did p. 128 ex. 25 - chose correct aspect. Uses for aspect are still the same     as with past tense, just now are working with future tense. Did p. 129 ex. 26 together to introduce conjugation patters         for perfective verbs. (Lots of Ia verbs. If you were absent use the master verb list in the green grammar book to figure         out the stems for each verb.); Played battleship on p. 132-133; Wrote p. 130-131 all perfective future; Played Uno game     in perfective future; Did two drill exercises on overhead on perfective future series and imp. vs. perf. future formation.

Monday, Nov. 2nd:
HW 17: p. 18 ex. 5
HW 18: in-class assignment imperfective and perfective future formation. I will give you a list of infinitives and pronouns. If the infinitive is imperfective, you will form the imperfetive future. (For example: читать (я)  will be я буду читать). If the infinitive is perfective, you will form the perfective future. (For example: прочитать (я) will be я прочитаю.) You will need to know all the verbs on p. 110 and p. 129. I will not ask you any Ia verbs that are not on p. 129.
Do corrections for HW 15.

Today's class activities: Watched episode 7 LFM and did accompanying exercises. (If you were absent, you can use script     at the back of the LFM booklet.); Reviewed future tense formation; p. 134-135; p. 136-137; p. 138.

Wednesday, Nov. 4th:
HW 18: retaking in-class on imperfective and perfective future formation. Same directions as before (see above.)     Everyone must pass this quiz with a B. If not, you will be required to stay after class every day for the rest of the quarter
and retake it until you can pass it with a B. This will be very inconvenient and hopefully serve as a motivator to learn
these verbs sooner than later.
HW 19: p. 19 ex. 2 + p. 90-91. For ex. 2, remember that after у меня you use the nominative case!
Learn house and furniture vocabulary on pp. 145-146.
Do corrections for HW 16.

Today's class activities: Took quiz on imperfective and perfective future; learned names of rooms in a Russian apartment on p. 161 ex. 1; introduction to furniture and home stuff vocabulary on p. 145-146; did p. 163-164; did an activity with furniture and room vocabulary; reviewed colors; p. 166 ex. 8-new adjectives; played a team competition game with imperfective and perfective future verbs from quiz.

Monday, Nov. 9th:
HW 18: Study for retake on imperfective and perfective future formation if you are supposed to retake it after class on Monday.
HW 20: p. 19 ex. 1- Prepare for in-class on furniture and rooms pp. 145-146.
HW 21: p. 19 ex. 3, p. 20 ex. 20 + p. 92-93.
Do corrections for HW 16.
Learn genitivie case adjective and nouns endings.

Today's class activities: Watched episode 8 LFM and did accompanying exercises. (If you were absent, you can use        
    script at the back of the LFM booklet.); Reviewed verb conjugation system; retook verb quiz; reviewed у меня есть +
    nominative case and у меня нет + genitive case; did note card interview about things you have and don't have at home.
    Introduction to adjectives in genitive case; Did p. 169 ex. 11 together as a class; Did another notecard interview about
    things you have and don't have at home, but this time there were adjectives for each thing. (Example: белый диван).

Wednesday, November 11th:
No class- Veteran's Day

Monday, November 16th:
HW 22: p. 20 ex. 5, p. 20 ex. 6.
HW 18: Study for retake on imperfective and perfective future formation if you are supposed to retake it after class on Wednesday. I will email you tomorrow on Tuesday if you need to do thi
Do corrections for HW 17 and 18.

Today's class activities: Watched Watched first half of episode 9 LFM and did accompanying exercises. (If you were absent, you can use script at the back of the LFM booklet.); took quiz on furniture and room vocabulary; p. 176-177 read text; p. 178 ex. 19-discussed questions about text; p. 173-expressing opinions about where to live; introduction to adjectives in prepositional case; p. 174 ex. 16; p. 175 ex. 17.

Wednesday, November 18th:
HW 23: Prepare for in-class writing assignment on where you live. You can write what ever you want, but it needs to be a cohesive paragraph with a minimum of 10 sentences. I encourage you to keep things simple.
HW 24: p. 94-95 reading.
Do corrections for HW 19, 20, 21.

Today's class activities: Reviewed adjective endings in prepositional case; p. 175 in pairs; p. 179 in pairs then had class discussion; watched video and answered questions on p. 180- you can find video on website under ch. 3 at end of chapter links; Introduction to genitive case endings and uses; group activities with pictures; p. 188 ex. 23.




Homework completion guidlines:

1.    Complete all homework on a separate piece of paper, unless it is a
listening comprehension exercise or otherwise noted.  Please use one sheet of paper for each homework assignment, unless you cannot fit all the exercises on one page. Write the page and exercise number at the top of the page.

2.    Always write in cursive. You may use either pencil or pen. Please do not use red or glitter pens. You may not type homework assignments, since it is important to get lots of practice writing in Cyrillic.

3.    You must do your homework entirely on your own. You may not receive any help from the tutor, a native Russian speaker or another student in the class. This is considered cheating. If you need help, please come see me.

4.    Listening comprehension assignments should be completed using the answer sheets from the homework book. Please mark your answers on these sheets and turn them in. All listening materials are available on the course website.

5.    When you prepare for an in-class assignment you do not need to turn anything in to me. These exercises are simply there so that you will know what material will be covered on the in-class writing assignments.

6.  When doing corrections, please correct the mistakes in a different color pen above the original mistake. Do not erase your original mistake and write over it, rewrite the assignment or put corrections on a separate page. This makes it much harder for me to check your corrections. mework corrections are worth 3 pts, and they are due the next class after you receive the homework back from me. Late homework corrections will not be accepted.

7.    If you receive a grade lower than a 7 (a C) on your homework, you must redo the assignment and turn it in the next class period. This is a safety net that prevents you from ever getting a non-passing grade on homework. You should see me or the tutor for help before redoing an assignment. Redos are worth 7 points.  Late redos will automatically receive only 5 points.

8.    Extra credit homework are due by the last day of class.