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 On: 2005-03-09
Story Additions for Harry Potter
Subject: Language Arts
Section: D - Responding, Consolidating Meaning
1. Reshaping ideas and forming new inferences through hypothesizing and sharing interpretations.
Grade: Grade 6-7
Prescribed Learning Outcomes:
· Comprehend and Respond (Comprehension) It is expected that students will locate and interpret details to answer specific questions or complete tasks (Grade 6).
· Communicate Ideas and Information (Composing and Creating) It is expected that students will describe and use strategies for generating and shaping ideas (Grade 6).
· Comprehend and Respond (Engagement and Personal Response) It is expected that students will develop personal responses and offer reasons for and examples of their judgments, feelings, or opinions (Grade 7).
Materials: lined paper, pencils, pencil crayons/crayons/felts, Harry Potter novels.
Activity:
Introduction:
Discuss the following:
1. Characters have many adventures to make a story interesting and exciting.
2. Would the story have concluded in the same manner if Harry had not completed one of his adventures (like being not getting to the library, etc.) Make a list with the students of all the sticky situations that a character (or characters) got him/her/themselves in and out of without getting caught, in trouble, and so on.
Development:
Choose a favorite adventure that a character (or characters) has in Harry Potter. Write an alternate conclusion to that event by considering all probable outcomes that could have occurred if the original event had occurred differently (ex. Would the story have been different if Harry had not received the invisibility cloak? How would it be different?). Before writing this story, think about all of the new experiences that your character(s) might encounter during the adventure and write them down if a web. The story should be based on some of the ideas present in the web. The students must hand in a web, a rough draft (with corrections made by a peer), and a good copy. The story must:
1. Have a beginning, middle and end.
2. Have an event or outcome that is different than in the original story (due to cause and effect).
3. Be written in the cursive hand.
4. Have a well-developed setting and plot, and well-developed characters.
5. Have grammatically correct language and correct spelling (for the most part).
6. Include a rough draft (which is edited by a friend), a web, and a final copy when it is handed in.
Closure:
Students will read their story aloud. After a reading, reference should be made to what actually happened in the story and what changes were made.
Assessment: The students stories will be assessed using the criteria stated above in the development. The best assessment strategy would either be a checklist or a rating scale (perhaps weighted rating scale).
A Source for Ideas: My own idea
Submitted by Adelle Barker, `Harry Potter Group B.
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