The Elephant project

⭐️Attention, literature lovers and enthusiasts!

🐘Text Experiments. At the Russian School “Brigantine” we carried out a large-scale literary project with our students, focused on in-depth text analysis using A. Kuprin’s short story “The Elephant” as an example. The main goal of these lessons was to help students overcome their fear of long texts, understand their structure, recognize artistic details and stylistic devices, see how the text connects to other works, and—most importantly—how it relates to their own (childlike) experiences and worldview.

🔎So, we decided to explore and analyze Kuprin’s story together in a fun and engaging way—nothing like a dry literature lecture. And we did it! We held five creative lessons where students color-coded parts of the text with pencils, completed tasks on special cards, identified a passage from our story hidden among eight excerpts from various works, studied plot structure using the legend of the three elephants, explored idioms involving elephants, and more.

🎉Everything worked out wonderfully! The students were happy and received prizes as a memento of this unique project.