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Every piece of writing needs key details to support a main idea. Here is how we determine whether your ideas are written well.

Review your work and give yourself a score. Explain why you gave your work this score.

This is the rubric for how well-written your paragraph that connects your main idea and evidence is.

Review your work and give yourself a score. Explain why you gave your work this score.

Review your work and give yourself a score. Explain why you gave your work this score.

In “Flight of the Fat Lady”, there was deep discussion about boggarts. To a partner, describe what a boggart is and what it shows about a person.

Fear makes characters act in strange ways. Choose a character from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and create a sketch of their boggart. Write 1-2 sentences of explanation that uses a quote from the book. Your explanation should show why that is their fear and if their fear motivated them to do something.

Share your boggart drawing and explanation with someone.

Then, create a second boggart drawing and explanation for another character.

If you want, you can upload the drawing and explanation here.

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If you can, work in a team to complete this exciting project.

Hogwarts has contracted you to create one page of Hogwarts yearbook.

The front of the page will have drawings of 10-12 characters that attend school. For each drawing, write down one quote that shows you think he or she looks that way.

On the back page, create a group or team photo. Then, write a paragraph that explains what that group or team did at Hogwarts this year. Edit your paragraph so that it is easy to read.

If you want, you can upload a picture of each step using the box below.

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Dobby hid Harry’s letters way back in Chapter 1. Let’s make an argument!

Do you think it would have been bad or good if Dobby successfully hid the letters from Harry?

Yes    No

Write a full sentence that explains why you choose Yes or No.

Then, find three facts or quotes from the story that support your sentence.

Finally, write a paragraph that makes an argument using your main idea and your evidence. Be sure to edit your paragraph and fix any mistakes.

If you want, you can upload a picture of each step using the box below.

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The first chapter, “The Boy Who Lived”, has details that shape every book and chapter afterwards. 

Write a news article or record an Owl (a letter) that describes the key details of this big news! To cover this news well, you will need:

1. At least five facts from Chapter 1
2. Two quotes from characters in Chapter 1
3. Good grammar so that everyone understands your important news!

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Use at least five facts in your article to ensure that you giving your audience as much detail as possible. These facts are what makes your news trustworthy!

Review your work and give yourself a score. Explain why you gave your work this score.

Review your work and give yourself a score. Explain why you gave your work this score.

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Take the time to get the grammar correct in your article. If there are grammatical mistakes, your audience may be distracted by the mistake and miss the excellent theme and message you use to create your article!

Review your work and give yourself a score. Explain why you gave your work this score.