First week  (January 12-16)
Monday  -  Audio CD for course handed out.  For Wednesday, at home from the the audio CD, practive (p. 8, 9 in the Workbook) 
                   На ЦД прослушайте Налибовa, звуковые дорожки, № 1, 2 (yдарный/безударный а/о, фонема у).
Wednesday  -   Be prepared for oral drilling of the phonemes "o/a  у," (p. 8, 9 in my пособие).  
Friday  - In my пособие, practice pronouncing the phoneme  "е," pp. 11-12 (дома на ЦД прослушайте звуковые дорожки).   We shall        
                         proactive intonation structures #1, #2, (pp. 26-27).

Second week  (January 19-23)
Monday  -  Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - NO CLASS!
Wednesday  -  First meeting in the Language Resource Center, Southwick, Redstone Campus.  We shall meet in the IBM computer lab. 
            During the class period, you will make an "in" recording of the materials on pp. 1-2 of your "Instructional materials.   Press
             CTRL+AL + DELETE and log onto your computer using your student ID and password.  Open AUDACITY and make your "in"
             recording.  In AUDACITY EXPORT the file you have recorded as "MP-3."   See the LINK information.    Send it to me using the
             UVM Transfer system @ http://www.uvm.edu/filetransfer/    
            Should you wish to download AUDACITY for your home computer, the URL for Audacity is http://audacity.sourceforge.net/  It is
            highly recommended that you save your completed assignment to your ZOO account.  Doing this avoids a possible redo in the event
            that either you or the system fail to properly forward the assignment!
Friday  -  In my пособие, practice pronouncing the phoneme  "e," pp. 11-12 and the phoneme "e," pp. 13-14 (дома на ЦД прослушайте   
            звуковые дорожки).   We shall practice the intonation structures #3, #4, (pp. 27-28).

Third week  (January 26 - 30)
Monday -  In my пособие, practice pronouncing the phonemes  "и," "я" pp. 15-17 (дома на ЦД прослушайте звуковые дорожки).  
            We shall practice the intonation structures #5, (pp. 28-29).
Wednesday  -  Second meeting in the Language Resource Center, Southwick, Redstone Campus.   Insert your CD in your computer
            and load the Bryzgunova materials - exercises #1-12.    Your finished MP-3 file of these materials is due Tuesday, February 3.  
            You may do this from your own home computer or from the langauge lab computers.    
            Send it to me using the UVM Transfer system @ http://www.uvm.edu/filetransfer/    If you wish to download AUDACITY
            for your home computer, directions for this and for uploading from the lab are at  LINK.  I shall return an aural evaluation
            and grade.  It is highly recommended that you save your completed assignment to your ZOO account.  Doing this    
            avoids a possible redo in the event that either you or the system fail to properly forward the assignment!
Friday - Please bring your «пособие».  We shall go over several of the areas Bryzgunova's exercises try to clarify.   In my пособие,
            practice pronouncing the phonemes  "ы" pp. 18-19 and "difficult combinations, p. 20 (дома на ЦД прослушайте звуковые
            дорожки.  We shall practice the intonation structures #6, #7 (p. 30).  We shall go over the material for your first dictation on p. 32.
            **Pp. 20-21 contain vital phonetic information for which you are responsible.

Fourth week   (February 2-6)  
Monday - First dictation from p. 32.  We shall read aloud the poem on pp. 1-2.   Go over 2nd dictation, p. 33.
Wednesday  -   Third meeting in the Language Resource Center, Southwick, Redstone Campus.   You will continue with the
        Bryzgunova materials - exercises #13-22.  Your finished MP-3 file of these materials is due Tuesday, February 10.   Export
        the file to me as an MP-3.  See the LINK  information.  Send it to me using the UVM Transfer system @http://www.uvm.edu/
        filetransfer/    If you wish to download AUDACITY for your home computer, directions for this and for uploading from
        he lab are at  LINK.  I shall return an aural evaluation and grade.
Friday  - Second dictation from p. 33.      We shall pronounce the material on pp. 22-23 in the «пособие»

Fifth week  (February 9-13)
Monday   Please enjoy Blue Russian on page 44.  Read and absorb the introduction to Element Order,  pp. 47-51.
Wednesday -  Third meeting in the Language Resource Center, Southwick, Redstone Campus.   You will continue with the Bryzgunova
        aterials - exercises #23-30.  Your finished MP-3 file of these materials is due Tuesday, February 17.   Export the file to me as an
         MP-3.  See the LINK information.  Send it to me using the UVM Transfer system @ http://www.uvm.edu/filetransfer/    If you
         wish to download AUDACITY for your home computer, directions for this and for uploading from the lab are at  LINK.  
         I shall return an aural evaluation and grade.
Friday  -  First hour exam.  A mostly oral (recorded) exam plus phonetic writing of difficult items as well as drawing of IK contours,
            definition of where various IKs are used (plus examples). 

Sixth week  (February 16-20)
Monday -  Presidents day - no class
Wednesday - Fourth meeting in the Language Resource Center, Southwick, Redstone Campus.   You will continue with the Bryzgunova
            materials - exercises #31-36.  Your finished MP-3 file of these materials is due Tuesday, February 24.  Export the file to me
            as an MP-3.  See the LINK information.  Send it to me using the UVM Transfer system @ http://www.uvm.edu/filetransfer/   
            If you wish to download AUDACITY for your home computer, directions for this and for uploading from the lab
            are at  LINK. I shall return an aural evaluation and grade.
Friday - Read pp 52-53 and do the exercises in my пособие. 

Seventh week  (February 23 - 27)
Monday - Read pp 54-58 and do the exercises in my пособие.  Read dictations from p. 34.  We shall also practice the poem «Багаж».
Wednesday - Fifth meeting in the Language Resource Center, Southwick, Redstone Campus.   You will continue with the Bryzgunova
            materials - exercises #37-48.  Your finished MP-3 file of these materials is due Tuesday, March 3.   Export the file to me as an
            MP-3.  See the LINK information.   Send it to me using the UVM Transfer system @ http://www.uvm.edu/filetransfer/  
               IIf you wish to download AUDACITY for your home computer, directions for this and for uploading from the lab are at  LINK. 
            I shall return an aural evaluation and grade.
Friday  -  Read pp. 59-60 and do the two exercise on pp. 60-61 in my пособие.  Write dictations from p. 34. We shall again practice the
            poem «Багаж», pp. 1-2. 

Eighth week  (March  2 - 6)
Monday  -  Read to pp. 62 and do the exercise on pp. 63-64 in my пособие.   We shall start practicing the opening stanzas to Pushkin's  Eugene Onegin.
Wednesday  - Sixth meeting in the Language Resource Center, Southwick, Redstone Campus.   You will continue with the
            Bryzgunova materials - exercises #49-65.  Your finished MP-3 file of these materials is due Tuesday, March 17 (after Break).  
            Export the file to me as an MP-3.  See the LINK information.  Send it to me using the UVM Transfer system @
            http://www.uvm.edu/filetransfer/     I shall return an aural evaluation and grade.
Friday  -  No class

Ninth week  (March 9-13)
Spring Break - no classes!

Tenth week  (March 16-20) 
Monday - Read the explanations of time expressions and do the exercises, pp. 66 middle of pp 71. and do the exercises, pp. 71-74 in my пособие.
Wednesday  -   Seventh meeting in the Language Resource Center, Southwick, Redstone Campus.   You will start the Mukhanov materials -
            dialogue #1.  The Mukhanov (YELLOW colored binder) is in your пособие.  Please do not forget to bring it.  Your    
            finished MP-3 file of these materials is due Tuesday, March 24.   Send it to me using the UVM Transfer system @
            http://www.uvm.edu/filetransfer/      I shall return an aural evaluation and grade.
            If you wish to download AUDACITY for your home computer, directions for this and for uploading from the lab are at  LINK.
Friday -   Read and do exercise pp. 76-78.  Work on Mukhanov, диалог №1 in class; the Mukhanov is found last in your Vol. I (YELLOW) пособие.

Eleventh week  (March 23 - 27)
Monday -  Read pp. 79-86; do exercises on pp. 86.  
Wednesday  - Eighth meeting in the Language Resource Center, Southwick, Redstone Campus.   You will continue with the Mukhanov materials dialogues #2. 
            The Mukhanov is in vol. I in your пособие.  Please do not forget to bring it.  Your finished MP-3 file of these materials
            is due Tuesday, march 31.   Export the file to me as an MP-3.  See the LINK information.  Send it to me using the UVM
            transfer system @ http://www.uvm.edu/filetransfer/      I shall return an aural evaluation and grade.
Friday - - We shall go over the material on pp. 36-37.  Since this is the way that Russians commonly express "get to;" this is some of the
                most useful information presented this term in this course!
          
Twelfth week  (March 30 - April 3) 
Monday - Hour exam through page 78.   in my «пособие».  You must be able to define new/given information in English and give the
            Russian equivalent terms.  You will be asked where new/given are located  in the Russian declarative sentence, in the
            English declarative sentence.  Translations will focus on vocabulary and syntax to page 78.  Additionally you will read two
            dialogues, which we have used as a diktant as well as a selection from the new Mukhanov materials. 
Wednesday - Ninth meeting in the Language Resource Center, Southwick, Redstone Campus.   You will continue with the Mukhanov materials.
            dialogues #3, 4.  The Mukhanov is in your пособие.  Please do not forget to bring it.  Your finished MP-3 file of these
            materials is due Tuesday, April 7.   Export the file to me as an MP-3.  See the LINK information.  Send it to me using the
            UVM Transfer system @ http://www.uvm.edu/filetransfer/    
I shall return an aural evaluation and grade.
Friday  - This is VERY critical information.  Do the exercises on p. 89 and 90. 

Thirteenth week  (April 6-10)
Monday - Additionally, read about the newspaper article and do the exercises on pp. 91-92. 
            (These are difficult exercises.  Work together on them!)
Wednesday - Tenth meeting in the Language Resource Center, Southwick, Redstone Campus.   You will continue with the Mukhanov materials.
        dialogues #5,6.  The Mukhanov is in your пособие.  Please do not forget to bring it.  Your finished MP-3 file of these materials
        is due Tuesday,  April 14.   Export the file to me as an MP-3.  See the LINK information.  Send it to me using the UVM
        Transfer system @ http://www.uvm.edu/filetransfer/    
I shall return an aural evaluation and grade.
Friday - Exercises pp. 64, 66.   Do the exercises on pp. 89-90.  Owing to their complexity, work together on these.  Practice Mukhanov dialogues #5, #6 in class.

Fourteenth week  (April 13-17)
Monday - Hour exam through page 92 in my «пособие».   Be sure you know the vocabulary from the exercises. 
            There will be graded reading of a Mukhanov dialogue, one stanza of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, and one item used for a diktant.

Wednesday   -  Eleventh meeting in the Language Resource Center, Southwick, Redstone Campus.    The Mukhanov is in your пособие. 
        Please do not forget to bring it.  Your finished MP-3 file of these materials is due Tuesday, April 21.   Export the file to me as
        an MP-3.  See the LINK information.
Friday - Read pp. 93-95 in my «пособие».  Do exeercises on pp. 95-96.  Practive Mukhanov dialogues #7, #8 in class.

Fifteenth week  (April 20-24)