Last week, as you began reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, you learned a little about the characters and began making connections to them, but we're left with some questions: Who keeps sending all these letters to Harry? Why do they want to contact him so badly? What do these letters say? Why are the Dursleys reacting to the letters in this way? And, maybe most importantly, who the heck is knocking at the door?!
Well... today, we're going to start getting the answers to some of those questions. We're also going to learn about our next literary lens that we'll be using while reading the next few chapters: the Psychological lens.
With the Reader Response lens we used last week, we made connections with characters and/or events in the chapters and saw how our lives related to what was going on in the novel. With the Psychological lens, we're going to take a step back from making connections and relating to characters/events and take a close look at the emotions that characters are feeling throughout the chapter.
TO DO FOR MONDAY, APRIL 20:
- Read Chapter 4
- This is a link to the ebook
- This is a link to the audiobook (you do not need an account to listen)
- Note: The audiobook is for the British version of the book, so the title is different and some words might be different if you are following along on the PDF. However, Stephen Fry (the narrator) is an amazing reader, and I highly recommend listening to the audiobook.
- Complete the Psychological Lens Form for Chapter 4
- Read the chapter slowly and deliberately and think about the questions above while reading.
- You will need to log into your Office365 account in order to complete the form. Email me or send me a Remind if you have problems logging in. (This seemed to work for people yesterday.)
As always, I am available via email and through Remind. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you need me. 😊
Finally, I would like to apologize for not replying back to emails on Friday. The internet was out at my house for most of the day and did not come back until late in the evening. I will be replying back to emails in the order that I received them while also trying to get a few more assignments from before Spring Break added into the gradebook. As a heads-up, I was notified that my internet provider is going to be working on network updates during the day again on Tuesday. A blog post is still scheduled to go live tomorrow morning, but I might not have access to the internet throughout the day again on Tuesday. I just wanted to let y'all know just in case I am unable to respond back right away. :)
