The article is devoted to two areas of work in a modern school that are relevant in light of the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard of Basic General Education for the subject area “Russian Language and Literature”: local history and project work. The focus is on building an educational route that combines local history activities to study the cultural heritage of a small homeland with the formation of project work skills in students. Local history organically includes the cultural heritage of a small homeland in the linguistic field of the entire nation, allowing, through the prism of local characteristics, to identify general trends and universal patterns, in particular, when teaching the perception of the native language as an integral part of national culture. The purpose of the article is to highlight the main areas of local history work in schools based on the study of the lives and works of famous Russian writers I. I. Lazhechnikov, N. Gilyarov-Platonov and B. A. Pilnyak, who are biographically closely associated with Kolomna near Moscow, whose works form the “Kolomna text” of Russian literature. Our task is to reveal the specifics of the local history approach, carried out in the plane of building project activities of students in the format of both classroom and extracurricular work. The study is based on scientific and didactic, theoretical and practical methods of studying local history material, suggesting a multi-aspect approach to its analysis: historical and cultural, literary, methodological. Based on the conducted research, the author demonstrates the main aspects of organizing local history work at school, which has a systematic and diverse nature, in order to develop project activity skills in students. The proposed format for building an educational route organically fits into the educational process of the school, expanding and deepening its content, implementing the functions of civic, patriotic, spiritual, moral and aesthetic education of students. The materials of the article can be successfully used in organizing both local history and project work in a secondary comprehensive school.
M. A. Dubova (Wed,) studied this question.