THE REAL ROMANOVS:HOW MEDIA AFFECTS PEOPLE’S PERCEPTION OF EVENTS LESSON DESIGNED BY: KELLY MARX

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Grand Duchesses Maria (left) and Anastasia (right) on an official visit to soldiers at their hospital, c. 1915

Anastasia Growing Up

GENERATIVE QUESTION:HOW DOES MEDIA AFFECT PEOPLE’S

PERCEPTION OF EVENTS?

Anastasia Nikolaevna was the youngestdaughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the lastsovereign of Imperial Russia. After theBolshevik revolution of 1917, the Tzar

and his family were murdered.Persistent rumors of her possibleescape circulated the globe and

provoked many books and films. Thislesson will examine the differencesbetween the movie “Anastasia”(1997)and what actually happened involving

the Romanovs and the Tsarina.

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Watch 20th Century Fox's "Anastasia" from 1997.

Note: Full length movie can be found:

Here

What do you learn about Anastasia from the movie?

What do you want to know more

about?

Guiding Questions:

What does the movie tell you about Anastasia?

What does it tell you about her family?

What does it show happened to her and her family?

Anastasia - 20th Century Fox (1997)

THE REAL LIFE OF ANASTASIA

Extracts from the Letters of Anastasia to her Father:

May 8,1913, 12.30 p.m. "...I am in Tatiana's room. Tatiana and Olga are here... I am sitting and digging in my nose with my left hand. Olga wanted to slap me but I ran away from her swinish hand..."

Jan.30,1915, p.58 "...I taught Ortino to sit up and beg and today I've taught her to give her paw and now she can do it. She is so sweet..."

ANASTASIA WROTE

EXTENSIVELY TO HER FATHER,

NICHOLAS II, WHILE HE WAS

AWAY FROM ALEXANDER

PALACE FOR WORLD WAR

ONE.

WHAT DO THESE LETTER

EXTRACTS TELL US ABOUT

ANASTASIA’S LIFE AT THE

TIME?

Letter excerpts found: Here

The Russian Imperial Romanov Family - Their Mysterious Killings | History Documentary File

Between the this and the 20th Century Fox Anastasia videos: What information is different?

Is there any information that is the same?Which do you think is more reliable?

What actually

happened to

Anastasia?

Video found: Here

Nicholas II of Russia with the family (left to right): Olga, Maria, Nicholas II, Alexandra Fyodorovna, Anastasia, Alexei, and Tatiana. 1913.

Photo of Tsar Nicholas II and his daughters Olga, Anastasia and Tatiana in captivity at Tobolsk in the winter of 1917-1918

COMPARING LIFESTYLESANASTASIA AND HER FAMILY HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AFTER THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION. HOW HAS

HER LIFE CHANGED?

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DOUBLE

CLICK

PHOTOS FOR

QUESTIONS!

Click by Thomas Uebe from the Noun Project

Tobolsk 8/21 March 1918 My darling, sweet Aunt Xenia, Thanks heaps for the postcard which has just come. For now we are, thanks be to God, alive and in good health. We are always so glad when we get news from you. How is Grandma's health? We often reminisce and talk about you all.

These days it's almost always sunny here and it's getting warm   quite pleasant! So we do our best to get out in the fresh air more. We can't slide down the mountain anymore (though it's still standing) as they've wrecked it and put a drainage ditch through it and so we can't ride down it.Well, they seem to have calmed down about it now because it was an eyesore for many for some time.  It's truly dumb and pathetic.

От Вел. Кнж. Анастасии Николаевны Вел. Кн. Ксении Александровне+).Тобольск. 8/21 марта 1918 г.

Моя милая тетя Ксения душка,

Спасибо Тебе большое за открытку, которую только что получила. Мы все пока, слава Богу, живы и здоровы. Всегда бываем очень рады, когда имеем от Вас известия. Как здоровье Бабушки (Императрица Мария Феодоровна). Часто Вас вспоминаем и говорим. Эти дни у нас почти все время солнце, и уже начинает греть, так приятно! Стараемся поэтому больше быть на воздухе. - С горы мы больше не катаемся (хотя она еще стоит), так как ее испортили и прокопали поперек канаву, для того,

Letter found: Here

COMPARING LIFESTYLESANASTASIA AND HER FAMILY HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AFTER THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION. HOW HAS

HER LIFE CHANGED?

This letter is from Anastasia to her Aunt Xenia during her

imprisonment in Tobolsk, Siberia.

What does this letter tell you about her new life compared to her previous letters to her

father?

FINALITY OF DEATH

One of the greatest mysteries for most of the twentieth century was the fate of the Romanov family, the last Russian monarchy. Following the abdication of Tsar NicholasII, he and his wife, Alexandra, and their five children were eventually exiled to the city of Yekaterinburg. The family, along with four loyal members of their staff, was held captive by members of the Ural

ANASTASIA IS FOUND

What do you know now about Anastasia?

How does media affect people’s, especially

children’s, understanding of events?

Reflection:I very much loved the concept of

document based lessons. It aligns with the high school history standards very

well as most of them are related to primary and secondary sources. I also liked creating the flow to a unit where

the students eyes would be opened progressively throughout the unit. It is generally the way that I like to teach.

Creating the PowerPoint and the Google Site were useful ways to get to

know the technology. Both Google Sites and Google Slides are very

useful in the classroom and if I had not already known how to use both of them I would have thought that it was

worth the time to be able to fiddle around with them. I did find it very

redundant to be doing it on the same topic over and over again, especially with the time that each took from our work on our unit plans and our thesis.

Ibooks on the other hand was a different story. The technology is so

cool and does have so many options that are functional, interactive, and

engaging. This was weighted however with the fact that it can only be used

on Macs and the whole process essentially felt like the struggle we deal with in our classrooms of the

students who have access to technology and those who do not. I

was very grateful for the flexibility to be given the chance to work more on

the books for a second class period as it definitely helped to mediate that

have/have-not mentality.Overall it was a good projects that would be helpful in the future that utilized cool technological assets. It was a lot of work to be doing during everything else but by it's self was

worth it.

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Exploring History Vol IV

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Chapters in chronological order

1. Mysterious Bronze Age Collapse by Sam Hicks

2. From Revolution to Government by Valerie Schiller

3. Imagination, Innovation & Space Exploration by Molly Pettit

4. The Real Romanovs by Kelly Marx

5. World War I: The Human Cost of Total War by Anna Harrington

6. Collectivization and Propaganda in Stalin’s Soviet Union by Clarice Terry

7. Holy Propaganda Batman! by Karina Ramirez Velazquez

8. The Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade by Scott Hearron

EXPLORING HISTORY: VOL IV

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