There’s one thing I know for sure, Harry Potter and school do not go together, but somehow our teachers found a way to make this happen. Doesn’t matter whether or not you’ve read the books or seen the movies, you were assigned another blue sky project on this topic. All blue sky projects are a question, not just any question however, an inquiry question. Something that needs a lot of time, research and effort to answer. One that makes you dig deep into your studies. So for this years exhibiton I asked, is there any better way of sorting the students into their houses? Mainly because it seemed as if Harry was able to manipulate the Sorting Hat so he wouldn’t end up in his enemies house, Slytherin.
After going through many different ways of possibly sorting the students, I finally came to the conclusion that the Sorting Hat has been around for thousands of years and will be around for even longer since my research showed that it may have seemed like it was manipulated but what the Hat really takes into consideration if how you take in information and your thought processes. That’s just a little glimpse into my project so here’s the rest:
This wasn’t the only thing I did for my project though. Just on the side I also decided to create my own sorting quiz. Me, being a huge fan of Harry Potter, have taken almost all the tests that are available online, I had a pretty good idea of what questions I had to ask.
As if having to create a project based off of Harry Potter wasn’t enough stress, try turning your entire school library into Hogwarts itself. This was the final step to our project and the area where our projects would be on display for our exhibition. My group’s area was quite difficult to set up since we had to find a way to turn our piece of the library into the great hall. Floating candles at Seycove? Nope, just fake candles brought in by Claire and Tatum with paper wrapped around their bases with string taped to the ceiling. A window look out over the courtyard of Hogwarts? More like a lopsided (thanks Adam, Spencer and Quinn) window which consisted of a whole lot of blue marker on a whiteboard. It sounds much worse than it looked. The candles looked like they were floating, until they started to fall down about half way through the exhibition, and all the lights were off so the window didn’t draw too much attention. Overall it turned out really well.
This was definitely a different project topic but was something I really enjoyed doing. Oh, and thanks Ms. Pye for letting us use your chocolate fountain for our food, that was probably the best part of our exhibition if I’m being honest.
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