STUDENTS WRITE THEIR OWN STORIES IN THE STYLE OF HARRY POTTER BY J.K. ROWLING!

Muggles!Hogwarts!Quidditch!

This is your guide into the magical world of Harry Potter! Before the year is through, your students will develop their own  'Potterific' stories after the unique style of author J.K. Rowling. After reading the first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, students will analyze literary terms and elements. Then they will demonstrate an understanding of the literary work by creating their own story.
If you are still a Muggle (a non-magical person that hasn't experienced Harry Potter), you might want to browse a web site before reading the book to your class. Here are two Harry Potter sites I discovered:

http://www.harrypotter.ws/

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Mountain/5101/teachers.html

Subject: Language Arts
Topic:  Writing in Response to Literature
Grade Level: Fourth-Grade 
Student Page Link:
ctap295.ctaponline.org/~jekleund/student 

Language Arts Content Standards

Reading
3.0 Literary Response and Analysis:
 Identify the literary terms/elements: theme, plot, setting, characters. 

Writing
2.2 Write in Response to Literature
Demonstrate an understanding of the literary work 
 

1. After viewing an animation of continental movement on a laser disk, students will be able to arrange the fit of the continents with continental puzzle pieces.
2. After analyzing information from an Encarta CD, students will be able to compare the distribution of fossils, rock types and ancient climatic zones on different continents as evidence for plate tectonics by fitting puzzle pieces marked by these special features.
3. Students will be able to draw a diagram of the earth’s layers.
4. After collecting information from The Earth CD, students will be able to locate earthquakes, volcanoes and mid ocean ridges as evidence for plate tectonics.
5. After viewing a laser disc geology chapter, students will be able to pass a true/false quiz on lithospheric plates and layers of the earth.
6. Students will be able to identify the major geologic events that result from plate motions in a Power Point multimedia presentation.
7. Students will be able to present their findings on the sixth grade plate tectonics and Earth’s structure standards in a Power Point multimedia presentation to an audience of peers and adults, including the World Geologic Society.
8. Students will be able to write, edit and revise their findings on the sixth grade plate tectonics and Earth’s structure standards using correct grammar, spelling and punctuation.) 

  

Introductory Activity: A Small Step into the Internet

Students will access and read the Student Home Page and go to the Sorting Hat to be placed in one of the four Hogwarts Houses. Then students will go to their House Common Room and record the house information on their Hogwarts History Sheet. (Click on this link to access and print out The Hogwarts History Sheet for your students.) 
 

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