Harry Potter

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The Harry Potter series has been written by J.K. Rowling. The main character is Harry, a boy with magical powers who was orphaned at an early age and raised by his relatives, the Dursleys. The story begins when Harry is 11 years old and receives a letter of invitation to attend a school of wizardry called Hogwarts Academy.
There are six books in the Harry Potter series:
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Read about the Harry Potter books. Click here.

Learn about the author of the Harry Potter series

In the following link you will read about J.K. Rowling the author
of the Harry Potter books.
Choose 5 details that are especially interesting to you and write a fact
sheet about the author. Click here to read. Write your draft here:

Display in your English room.

Take a quiz on J. K. Rowling. Click here.

Discussion Chamber

The following link is a Discussion Chamber about Harry Potter.
Answer the question presented and submit it. Click here.

Harry Potter Quizzeszes & Fun

Lots of Quizzes from the BBC
Do you think you know books #1&2 well? Click here. Harry Potter games. Click here.	Take a quiz on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Click here.
Play the Wizard challenge. The game goes until you get 3 questions wrong. Click here.
Click here for more online fun from Scholastic.	Harry Potter quizzes from teachervision.com
Harry Potter Darkman.com	Harry Potter worksheets. Click here.
Printatble activities Year 1	More Quizzes: Harry Potter and Greek Mythology Fantastic Beasts Hogwarts (beginner) Hogwarts (advanced) Quidditch Sorceror's Stone and Chamber of Secrets Prisoner of Azkaban Goblet of Fire Crosswords: Hogwarts Harry Potter (advanced)

Harry Potter Polls

Cast your vote in Harry Potter polls. Click here.

Write your own Haiku

Advanced level - write your own Haiku

Pair work: write a Harry Potter Haiku.
Haiku is a very old form of poetry from Japan.
It consists of three unrhymed lines. Traditionally,
the first and last lines have five syllables each,
and the middle line has seven syllables.

In the following link you can see examples of Haiku.
To write your own poem and send it scroll down the page
where you will see "Send Us Your Own Harry Haiku!"

Click here to see examples of Haiku.

Harry Potter Ecards

Send your teacher a castle e-postcard.
Follow the five steps to send the card.
Write your opinion about one of the
Harry Potter books.
After you write your message click on the
PREVIEW button to see your postcard.
If you click on START OVER you will lose
everything that you wrote and you will have
to start all over again. Click here.

More ecards from 123giggle.com . Click here.
Harry Potter interesting sites. Click here.

Help Someone Else

Pretend you have special tools like
Harry (i.e. a flying broom, an invisibility cloak).
Write how you would use these tools to help someone else.

Send to the

Pair work: in J.K. Rowling's novels
Harry Potter and others are frequently
bullied, both physically and verbally.

         A. Look up the word bullying in a dictionary
            and write its definition.
         B. List 5 events of bullying from a Harry Potter novel.
            Explain how the bullying started, the kind of bullying,
            and how the victim reacted. Also, what was the REAL
            cause of the bullying?
         C. Do you think the victim handled it wisely?
            How could the victim have handled it better?
         D. How could the bully have dealt with the real cause better?
Write your draft here:

Write a factsheet and display in your English room.

Helpful sites

		Join the Harry Potter Dialogue Center
A glossary to Harry Potter terms	Harry Potter posters	Find words, things, & places in the Harry Potter books in alphabetical order	wizard school at kidsdomain.com
	Get a Harry Potter Screen Saver	Harry Potter reference guide

Links

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	Harry Potter Picture Gallery
The official Harry Potter site	Interviews with the cast of Harry Potter
Potter votes	Harry Potter message boards
Director of Harry Potter speaks about cast	Watch film clips
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - tikah.co.il	surfnetkids.com
Warner Brothers	Fact Monster.com - Harry Potter
kidsinfoplease.com

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Last updated 22/11/04

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