Life Readers group featured in Chicago Tribune’s “Printers Row” journal
Our Life Readers group from the Arlington Heights Memorial Library was featured in the Chicago Tribune’s “Printers Row.” You can read about us here.
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- 19th Century Russian Literature and Film Adaptations – Fall 2021 and Winter/Spring 2021 to 2022
- 19th Century Russian Short Fiction 2020-2021
- Winter/Spring 2020: Tolstoy’s War and Peace
- The Russian Revolution (1900 – 1940) through Literature and Film (Fall 2018-Spring 2019)
- Russian Literature for Teens Fall 2017: Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Chekhov’s Annas, and Anna Karenina in Film
- Russian Literature for Teens Fall 2016 through Spring 2017: War and Peace, Oblomov, and Crime and Punishment
- 19th Century Russian Short Fiction – Two Semesters in 2015 – 2016
- 2015 Summer Workshop: 19th Century Russian Supernatural Stories
- 2015 Summer Workshop: Gogol’s The Government Inspector
- 2015 Summer Workshop: Gogol’s The Government Inspector
- Winter/Spring 2015: Russian and Soviet History of the First Half of the 20th Century through Literature and Film (1920 – 1940)
- Fall 2014: Russian and Soviet History of the First Half of the 20th Century through Literature and Film (1900 – 1920)
- 2014: Summer Workshop: Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground
- 2014: Summer Workshop
- Winter/Spring 2014 – Tolstoy’s War and Peace
- Fall 2013 – 19th Century Russian Short Fiction for teens
- Class Responses to 19th Century Russian Short Fiction
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- 2014 ACTR Illinois/Indiana Olympiada of Spoken Russian – Reeification Newsletter
- 2015 Illinois ACTR Olympiada of Spoken Russian
- 2016 Illinois ACTR Olympiada of Spoken Russian
- 2016 Amelia Parkes wins award at the XIV International Olympiada of Russian Language in Moscow
- Students Travel in Russia
- The Annotated Story: Narine Abgaryan’s “Manyunya Performs at an End-of-Year Recital, or an Original Cure for Fear of Heights”
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- Recent Posts
- Registration begins on May 24 , 2023 for Newberry Class “Understanding Ukraine through Contemporary Literature”
- Newberry course for 2023 – Focus on Ukraine: Gogol’s Ukrainian Tales, Babel’s Odessa Stories, and Bulgakov’s White Guard
- Registration opens August 24, 2022 for Newberry Seminar From Russian Folk Epics and Holy Fools to Putin’s Propaganda
- Summer of 2022 at the Newberry – Mikhail Vrubel: Fusion of Art and Literature
- Teen Literature Course for Fall 2021 and Spring 2022: 19th Century Russian Literature and Film Adaptations
- New and Unique Online Course for Fall of 2021 through Spring of 2022 – Russian History from Peter the Great to the 1910s: St. Petersburg’s Culture, Myth, and Everyday Life
- Announcing Teen Online Course for 2020-2021: 19th Century Russian Short Fiction
- Stella S. creates animation for “Baggage” by Samuil Marshak
- Life Readers Schedule for May and June, 2020
- Schedule Changes due to COVID-19 – Updated April 27, 2020
- Life Readers in 2020: Join us at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library to read and discuss Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot”
- Join Frank Biletz and Julia Denne at the Newberry for a Free Program on Tuesday, September 10, 2019
- Life Readers for 2019: Chekhov’s Plays
- Leah A’s Interpretation of «Вот какой рассеянный»
- Jonah B’s presentation of “Багаж” (Самуил Маршак)
- Students’ Interpretations of «Вот какой рассеянный»
- Leah A’s presentation of “Багаж” (Самуил Маршак)
- Morgan E’s interpretation of “Багаж” (Самуил Маршак)
- New Life Readers Series begins in January, 2018
- Amelia Parkes Interviewed for CEERES Newletter
- New Format: Synchronous and Asynchronous Classroom for Fall 2017 Russian Lit Online
- Nina Wilson Receives Scholarship to Study in Russia
- Elizabeth D. recites “Вот какой рассеянный” (Самуил Маршак)
- Russian Language Lab Senior Projects – Celia M. Interviews a Native Russian Speaker and Amelia Parkes’ translates THE APPLES OF YOUTH AND THE WATER OF LIFE: A RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE (adapted by Aleksey Tolstoy)
- Life Readers 2016-2017
- Russian Language Lab: Amelia Parkes recites Pushkin’s “The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights”
- Amelia Parkes wins award at the XIV International Olympiada of Russian Language in Moscow
- Life Readers January through May 2016
- Catching up with Students
- Interview by Leslie Schultz and Ten Great Works of Russian Literature to Round Out Your Reading List
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Recent Posts
- Registration begins on May 24 , 2023 for Newberry Class “Understanding Ukraine through Contemporary Literature”
- Newberry Adult Education Course for 2023 – Focus on Ukraine: Gogol’s Ukrainian Tales, Babel’s Odessa Stories, and Bulgakov’s White Guard
- Registration opens August 24, 2022 for Newberry Seminar From Russian Folk Epics and Holy Fools to Putin’s Propaganda
- Fall 2022 at the Newberry: From Russian Folk Epics and Holy Fools to Putin’s Propaganda
- Summer of 2022 at the Newberry – Mikhail Vrubel: Fusion of Art and Literature
- Teen Literature Course for Fall 2021 and Spring 2022: 19th Century Russian Literature and Film Adaptations
- New and Unique Online Course for Fall of 2021 through Spring of 2022 – Russian History from Peter the Great to the 1910s: St. Petersburg’s Culture, Myth, and Everyday Life
- Stella S. creates animation for “Baggage” by Samuil Marshak
- Announcing Teen Online Course for 2020-2021: 19th Century Russian Short Fiction
- Life Readers Schedule for May and June, 2020
- Schedule Changes due to COVID-19 – Updated April 27, 2020
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- Bulgakov’s "The Master and Margarita" #1
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- iLearnRussian.com
- Know your onions – The Phrase Finder
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- Krylov's fable "The Quartet"
- Lizok's Bookshelf
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