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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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Amy Turner
Emma Heaps
Nate Gonyou
Adrian Calestani-Winacott

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Nicole
Patrick
David
Kevin

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Erika T
Mackenna S
Brady M
Ashley S

Themes:
- friendship
- loyalty
- nature

Activities - Language Arts Curriculum:
Strand - Writing: choose your favourite character and write a poem from their point of view

Strand - Media Literacy/Oral Communication: In groups, make a video commercial campaign to save Wilbur

Activities - Art Curriculum:
Strand - Drama: in groups, act out an alternative ending to the story

Strand - Visual Arts: pick your favourite scene from the book and draw out the scene.

Connection to other Texts:
- The Giving Tree

Global Cohort Connections:
No matter our differences, we must always treat everyone with the same amount of respect and dignity.

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Themes:
-Friendship

-Life Cycle

-Diversity

-Environmental / Setting

Hunter Jackson, Joseph Karam, Austin Bell, Paige Burnie &Veronique Murphy

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Jessica Eisner
Emma thomson
Stephanie Semenuk
Christiana Bogart
Kieran Spring

Themes
Bullying
Supernatural
Good vs. Evil
Family
Education

Language Arts
- Pick a passage
- Identify speaker
- Identify other characters
- Rewrite the passage from a different character's perspective
- Trade passages and proof-read classmates
- Edit Passage
(Cover Reading 1.9 and Writing 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.8, 3.1)

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Harry Potter and the Globet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (grade 4-6)

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Harry Potter and the Globet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (grade 4-6)

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Corina Cote
Zach Romanson
Eric Perry

Why Teach the book?
-Fantasy themed, sparks creativity and imagination.
-The main character is around the same age as students: relatable.
-Appropriate reading level
-Based in schools, shows importance of education.
-Shows importance of valuing friendship in the book.

Themes:
-Adversity
-Competition
-Relationship building
-Magic, sparks creativity

Connection to other subjects:
-Drama
-Dance
-Visual Arts
-English: literacy
-Sciences: potions and animals

Relate to classroom activities:
-Dance: Harry Potter Themed dance, Ballroom dance lessons
-Music: Play Harry Potter them song on the recorder (or any other instrument)
-Visual Arts: Based on description draw what you think the scenery and characters look like.
-Drama: Choreograph their own battle with wands.

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The Magic Treehouse: Dinosaurs Before Dark

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The Magic Treehouse: Dinosaurs Before Dark

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Rosemary Gagliardi
Julia Davids
Jing Gong
Owen Brule

Why Teach the Book?
- Introduces new perspectives and allows comparisons between our society and a dystopian society.
- Encourages students to think critically and go against the grain.
- Students have to consider that their own perspectives might be different from others'.

Themes
- Our shared experiences, even painful ones, can bring people together.
- Critical thinking, the dangers of blind devotion.
- Having both good and bad in your world is better than neither.
- Human life and memory is significant.
- Oral traditions are a fundamental form of transmitting culture.
- Coming of age.

Connections
- Social Studies. The issues of genetics, euthanasia, and conformity are present.
- To other literature: Hunger Games, Fahrenheit 451, Maze Runner, Matched, Battle Royale
- Arts. The society in the book highlights the importance of the arts and freedom of expression.
- History. Examining societies that function or have functioned similarly.
- Global Issues. The society is cutoff from the international community and does not engage in international issues.
- Family/Community. The story explores how isolation can aversely affect identity and a sense of belonging. Coming of age.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

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Emilie Lachance
Theo Tsangaris
Nikki Balachorek
Andrew Ahn
Vivien Allen

Themes
- class structures
- hope
- success
- identity
- family

Connection to junior learner/ why teach this book?
- characters around the same age as learners
- prescriptive morality
- about candy
- it is a famous book that has been made into a movie, games, etc. so kids can interact with it in many ways. They can also be assessed on their comprehension in many ways.
- exposure to social class disparities

Global Connections
-industrialisation
- poverty
- health
- exploitation of workers

Activities
-  students acting out their favourite scene/ dialogue from book. (oral communication, writing, reading, drama)
- Ask students to draw, write, dance, make music, act out etc. their reactions to the book/ scene/ theme. (music, visual arts, drama, dance, writing)
- Compare different scenes in the book through drawing (e.g. how is Charlie's house described vs. how is the factory described) (visual arts, reading)
- watch the movie and compare a character/ setting to the book (reading, writing)

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Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Grade 6)

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Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Grade 6)

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Athena Robbins
Calista Vogelzang
Adam Torcotte
Abigail

Why Teach the Book?
- Some of the characters are around the same age as the the students
- Themes are relevant to today (oppressions, wealth inequality, familial love, loss of innocence, hope, dealing with loss, etc.)

Connection to Other Subjects/Text
- Science, History, Social Studies
- Other Dystopian Novels (1984)

Global Connections
- Collaboration and cooperation of diverse groups
- Ties to current global events
- Playing towards personal and regional strengths

Digital Literacy
- Comparing text to movie
- Comparing text and movie to global events
- Propaganda

Activities
Drama/ Media Strand/ Music/Dance: Film a movie trailer for the book, choreographing scene and action structure, using music and editing to set the tone

Media/Oral/Writing: Present or write a report on the differences between the book and the movie. What changes were made? What are the limits of text and film?

Music/Writing/Media: Analyze a scene from the movie. How does the music effect the mood of the scene? What techniques do the film makers use to show the emotion of the scene?

Reading/Oral: Group/solo reading of chapters with discussion questions for each chapter.

Visual Arts: Recreate a scene from the book (whatever medium)