Saturday, 18 March 2017

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Classroom activity





In this blog I have shared my classroom activity on “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” from The New Literature paper.




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         “Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows” is written by J. K. Rowling. It is a part of fantasy series and a journey of a boy named Harry Potter with his friends in Hogwards.

1)   Feminist reading of Harmione’s character in Harry Potter:

         Harmione, Harry and Ron are best friends, but the portrayal of them character is different. We can observe in all parts of Harry Potter that Harmione is an intelligent girl. She raises her hand in every question asked by teachers. She is more studious than Harry and Ron and most of the times her magic and knowledge of spells helps and saves lives of Harry and Ron. She is powerful character but she is not given enough space in the novel. We do not see any major work done by in the novel. She is always a supporting character of Harry. Harmione is the only girl who is close to Harry and Ron, and in Part – 7 “Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows” Ron and Harry also becomes rivals of each other. (Dave) Harmione’s use of spell and her intelligence was a thing of use for Harry and Ron to rid out of difficult situations. 



         We don’t see any major word done by her. She helps but never done anything notable. She does not destroy any Horcruxe but helps in breaking all Horcruxes. She is powerful but marginalized. We observe that she always tries to prove that she is a good witch and can use any spell perfectly. She has abused many times by Malfoy but she stands strongly. J. K. Rowling has portrayed her character as a Muggle girl who wants to be a powerful witch. She is portrayed as a Muggle and as a girl rather than powerful and strong girl. 
 
2)   The discourse of Power and Politics in Harry Potter:

        The main power in Harry Potter series is Ministry of Magic Functioning. Every time there is some orders from the ministry to Hogwards and Hogwards have to follow that. It has a power to operate all the systems in school of Hogwards. Dumbledore tries to keep school distanced from Ministry but it rarely happens. Ministry’s power also works in Muggle’s world and makes changes in their world without their permission and they don’t even know about the magical world. All Muggles are considered as ‘Others’ and Wizards and Witches including Dumbledore have to follow orders by power. (Wikipedia)

      In Hogwards also we can find this power politics in one or the other way. Dumbledore has a power and with those powers he favors Harry in his each task. Mr. Filch is the one of the character who likes when power works on students.

3)   Moral and Philosophical reading of Harry Potter:
 
        In “Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows” we observe that Voldemort is defeated by Harry on each level of fight. As it is said ‘Evil breeds evil’, Voldemort has parted his soul and hide it in different things call Horcroxus but he also got result of his this act and one by one all Hurcroxus were destroyed by Harry and his friends. In the novel evil leads to death by good characters, we can say that novel has poetic justice. 



      As it is said that every evil deed will have its end in disastrous way, in novel also the same happens. Harry Potter is also one of the Horcruxes and he is also having such effects of that evil energy on him. But he chooses to be a good person and gets rid out of that and ultimately leads towards goodness. He killed Voldemort and didn’t loose his moral values. (Barad)


Bibliography

Barad, Dilip. Dilip Barad's Blog. <http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2016/03/webquest-harry-potter-think-and-write.html>.
Dave, Nimesh. Nimesh Dave. <http://nimeshdave22.blogspot.in/2016/03/harry-potter-by-jk-rowling.html>.
Wikipedia. Wikipedia. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Harry_Potter#Racism.2C_mistreatment_of_minorities_and_totalitarianism>.


WebQuest Rubric  - Self evaluation



Overall Visual Appeal – 2
Navigation & Flow –2
Mechanical Aspects – 2
Motivational Effectiveness of Introduction – 1
Cognitive Effectiveness of the Introduction – 1
Connection of Task to Standards – 2
Cognitive Level of the Task – 3
Clarity of Process – 2
Scaffolding of Process – 3
Richness of Process – 1
Relevance & Quantity of Resources- 2
Quality of Resources – 2
Clarity of Evaluation Criteria- 3
Total – 26/50





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