Potterology is a new club designed with simple goals:
· To spend time with our moms or dads while having fun, digging deep, and reading a lot– (not really recommended for children younger than 6 or 7. {Book 4 and 6 have particularly scary moments}– but this is up to individual parents)
· To provide a book club experience for children and their parents-over a period of about 15 months
· To meet monthly until all six books published thus far have been (re)read: Harry Potter and the-Sorcerer’s Stone (1); -Chamber of Secrets(2);- Prisoner of Azkaban (3);- Goblet of Fire (4);- Order of the Phoenix (5);- Half-Blood Prince (6)
· To provide a forum for discussion of all the characters, author techniques, plot lines, history and lore that J.K. Rowling folds into her novels
· To engage in activities that tie into and enhance the reading experience and the understanding of these wonderfully entertaining stories: such as creating puppet dragons, marauder maps, invisible ink, zany characters, cloaks and wands, or our own self-penned myths & legends, etc
Obligations: Parents (or teams of) will facilitate meetings with prompting questions for discussions, activities and hosting of meetings. Any costs for materials will be shared by all participants. A complete schedule will be drawn up through mutual planning with all participants prior to first meeting. Approx. 200 pages per month will be read.
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It occured to me before I started to cut and paste from the old flyer that one of the reasons I was interested in doing the club last winter was that I wanted to have an activity that I shared with my kids. I didn't want just another extracurricular activity that they were invloved in and I was simply the driver and/or audience. We have plenty of those; I wanted to play too. This perspective is still one I turn to each month when readying and reading for the next meeting.
Now that we are half way through the reading, we are getting to the heart of the thing. We have now met most of the big players in the plot, our hero has his flaws, and soon, very soon, we will meet our hero's true arch enemy up close and personal...(not Draco Malfoy, the boy who has been a sort of arch-enemy-in-training to Harry up to now). Things are getting complicated, plots are twisting back on themselves, and fatalities~ death :( ~ will soon occur. Book four is a turning point in the series; what was a set of books introducing us to a young, likable, boy wizard-in-training is fast becoming an epic tale of growing up (called a "coming of age" story) in "dark and difficult times." More than ever, the books are now truly better read with an adult. Not just for comfort when the story becomes scary or sad, but for explanations and comprehension as the plot and characterizations become more complex. Keep in mind, the books we are now reading are some of the most popular books read by high schoolers.
Enough about the club. For more refreshing, scroll or click to the original page here on the blog about book clubbing: Helpful Advice on Book Club Hosting. Please see "Previous Posts" table on the right! In addition, the schedule page has been updated with hosting schedule and info about planning. Please check your rotation! Their have been CHANGES! Thanks!
I am in the proces of typing up all the lists that I have, but I would love it if we could have them typed and e-mailed to me each month for posting. I am sure they would be much easier to cut and paste into the blog than to type from scratch. If at all possible, please help your child type them up, or type them for them. **Check what is on the blog already before typing, to insure no re-typing of portions of the list that are already up on the page! Thanks!
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