School № 12 Rostov-na-Donu Participants Students of 11th A, V grades Trainer Makarenko Irina Anatolyevna, Teacher of English as a Foreign Language Consultants Vdovenko Lydiya Alexandrovna, Director of Municipal Comprehensive Institution “Secondary Comprehensive School № 12” Sorokina Svetlana Ivanovna, specialist of Donskaya State Public Library

SCHOOL PROJECT My Polycultural World Authors Denis Makhonko Julia Dorokhova Mikhail Radko Vera Gorbounyova Olga Reznik Darya Dolgova Narina Danelyan Olga Pavlenko Svetlana Nersesyan

The main aim of the Project Increasing a number of educational materials for the subject English as a Foreign Language (10-11 grades) as a Federal Component of State Standard of Education and Educational Institution Component of State Standard of Education

The outline of the Project  Developing traditional paper and electronic versions of additional educational materials (texts for reading) for Student’s Book “English 10-11” (authors V.P. Kouzovlev, N.M. Lapa and others): Unit 1. How Different the World Is? Unit 2. Western Democracies. Are They Democratic? Unit 3. What Is Hot with the Young Generation? Unit 7. Inventions That Shook the World  Developing collection of students’ creative works “My Polycultural World” with nine chapters as Reader for educational Set “Internet in Learning English ” (authors: I.A. Makarenko, V.I. Tuzlukova, I.N. Rozina) which might be studied by students as an Educational Institution Component of State Standard of Education of the Russian Federation

Project Objectives to show students the necessity of using info-communication technologies in learning polyculture within global education while foreign language training and other subjects at school to present our additional educational materials as samples for developing similar ones for different subjects to give students additional materials and tools for using Internet technologies in self-education while learning English as a Foreign Language and other subjects

Project Benefits Our Project will be an investment  in development of education of our school and community  for modernization of Russian education according to Federal State Standard requirements  in our personal development as pupils and persons

Project Steps and Results In order to realize this Project we have done the following steps: Attended the special educational course “English with the Internet. Polycultural World: Problems and Solutions” which was taught in the IATP Center in the Donskaya State Public Library (September 2004 – May 2005) Developed traditional and electronic additional materials (texts for reading) for Student’s Book “English 10-11” (authors V.P. Kouzovlev, N.M. Lapa and others):

oUnit 1. How Different the World Is? Problems of a Global Nature (D. Makhonko) oUnit 2. Western Democracies. Are They Democratic? British Monarchy as a National Cultural Symbol (J. Dorokhova) Cultural Images and Symbols within British Commonwealth (M. Radko) American Melting Pot (V. Gorbounyova) Russian Cultural Images and Symbols (O. Reznik) Russian National Symbols (D. Dolgova) Moscow as a Russian National Symbol (N. Danelyan) oUnit 3. What Is Hot with the Young Generation? Multicultural Hometown Rostov-on-Don (O. Pavlenko) Universal Human Values on the Internet (S. Nersesyan) oUnit 7 “Inventions That Shook the World” Materials of the School Project “My Polycultural World”

Developed nine chapters for traditional and electronic books “Collection of Students’ Creative Works. My Polycultural World” which are the parts of educational materials for Set “English with the Internet. Polycultural World: Problems and Solutions” (authors: I.A. Makarenko, V.I. Tuzlukova, I.N. Rozina) Problems of a Global Nature (D. Makhonko) British Monarchy as a National Cultural Symbol (J. Dorokhova) Cultural Images and Symbols within British Commonwealth (M. Radko) American Melting Pot (V. Gorbounyova) Russian Cultural Images and Symbols (O.Reznik) Russian National Symbols (D.Dolgova) Moscow as a Russian National Symbol (N.Danelyan) Multicultural Hometown Rostov-on-Don (O. Pavlenko) Universal Human Values on the Internet (S.Nersesyan)

Developed Power Point Presentation of the School Project “My Polycultural World” which is the additional material for the Set “Internet in Learning English” (authors: I.A. Makarenko, V.I. Tuzlukova, I.N. Rozina) for school mediateque Developed a web - page with the materials of the School Project “My Polycultural World” for our school web- site

Project Partners Our Project partners are Makarenko Irina Anatolyevna, Teacher of English as a Foreign Language (trainer) Vdovenko Lydiya Alexandrovna, Director of Municipal Comprehensive Institution “Secondary Comprehensive School № 12” (consultant) Sorokina Svetlana Ivanovna, the IATP coordinator in Rostov Region, specialist of Donskaya State Public Library (consultant)