HARRY POTTER & SORCERER'S STONE Essay Questions Writing Prompts & Speech Digital

Our Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Essay Topics will get learners engaging with meaningful topics the novel raises:

★ Good & Evil

★ Identity

★ Nicknames

Our essay prompts are ideal for . . .

→ End-of-unit conversation starters

→ Writing journals

→ Literary analysis essays

→ Literary analysis speeches

SUGGESTED ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION

Learners will choose from a few deep topics to either write a grade-level essay or turn their essay outline into a speech on the topic. During the speeches, learners will need to understand and chart the speakers’ thesis statements. And for you . . . no-hassle grading rubrics are included to make your teaching life easier and for easy, effective grading and feedback. These discussions really bring home the biggest topics of the story and guide learners through discussing the text in an analytical writing process.

The Response to Literature rubrics are also digital and have been refined over years of essay grading to include most of the comments you'd want to write on an essay. This makes the grading process much faster but still allows the teacher the ability to give some feedback. Essays can take so long to grade, can't they? But a rubric like this really speeds up the process for us.

All of the notes from the learners will be easily completed in Google Drive. They can then choose to write an essay or deliver a speech on their ideas.

TEXT: HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE by J.K. Rowling

LEVEL: 4th - 6th

COMMON CORE:

→ CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1,2,3

→ CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1,9

→ CCSS.ELA-SpeakingListening.SL4,6

→ Our activities easily integrate w/ Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Canvas, Schoology, Edmodo, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace, Sakai, Showbie, Remind, & more.

Enjoy Harry Potter and remember "it does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live"!

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WHAT OTHER TEACHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS ESSAY RESOURCE

♥ I LOVED using this. I loved how there were multiple options of responses for my students to choose from and how all of them really required them to think about their responses and all we have learned in ELA. The rubrics were also perfect for assessing their responses and I used them for all my Literary Analysis assessments. Thanks!

♥ This is an excellent lesson because it allows the student to choose the topic they will analyze (character, setting or theme) and also a choice between essay or speech.  Only 3/34 chose to do the speech, and they surprised me with their very thorough analysis. I did find, however, that the students need a lot of pre-writing (small group discussion) of the topics in order to come up with an outline.  It was absolutely one of the best writing process essays we did.

♥ The students loved the fact that they had a choice of an essay topic. The essential questions that were asked made my students think beyond basic character analysis. The essay rubric and scoring was a time saver as well. 

♥ This was a great assignment. The organization of the assignment made it easy for my students to prepare and write quality essays. I like this response to literature as well as the checklists for students to make sure they've included mechanics. The rubric was thorough and made it easy to be consistent in grading.

♥ Loved these prompts! There was something for everyone! I was able to use this as a final exam prompt for my class and the responses I got were fantastic!

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WHAT IS CREATED FOR DIGITAL?

★ Our Created for Digital resources take all the trusted, quality instructional tools you know and love and convert them into the digital format you need for your online learners.

Why go Digital?

··· Paperless. No printing.

··· Instant saving ... students work in the file.

··· 1:1

··· Technology Proficiency

··· Easy integration w/ these Learning Management Systems (as of 9/24/2020): Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Canvas, Schoology, Edmodo, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace, Sakai, Showbie, Remind, & more.

··· Works on Chromebooks, Android Tablets, and other devices

··· Engaged students

··· Easy group work

··· Paper trail of revisions for teacher to see

Includes:

··· Teacher Tutorial - access link and how to use this with your learners

··· Microsoft OneDrive user instructions - a step-by-step visual tutorial. This will only take minutes!

··· All slides can be used over and over again.

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