Assessment

Dear Ladies

I enjoyed viewing this site. Thank you for the effort. However this being a language and literacy module you had to use the english language correctly. That is your spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, etc.
The marks you obtained for this blog is 32/45 = 71%. Keep the book club spirit alive, continue to read and above all continue to tell your stories.

Regards

Ms Petker

Assessment

HARRY POTTER- CHAPTER 1 SUMMARY

The Dursley’s are a well-to-do, status-conscious family living in England. Eager to keep up proper appearances, they are embarrassed by Mrs Dursley’s eccentric sister, Mrs Potter, whom for years Mrs Dursley has pretended not to know. On his way to work one ordinary morning, Mr Dursley notices a cat reading a map. He is unsettled, but tells himself that he has only imagined it. Then, as Mr Dursley is waiting in traffic, he notices people dressed in brightly coloured cloaks. Walking past a bakery later that day, he overhears people talking in an excited manner about his sister-in-law’s family, the Potters, and the Potters’ one-year-old son, Harry. Disturbed but still not sure anything is wrong, Mr Dursley decides not to say anything to his wife. On the way home, he bumps into a strangely dressed man who gleefully exclaims that someone named “You-Know-Who” has finally gone and that even a “Muggle” like Mr Dursley should rejoice. Meanwhile, the news is full of unusual reports of shooting stars and owls flying during the day.

That night, as the Dursleys are falling asleep, Albus Dumbledore, a wizard and the head of the Hogwarts wizardry academy, appears on their street. He shuts off all the streetlights and approaches a cat that is soon revealed to be a woman named Professor McGonagall (who also teaches at Hogwarts) in disguise. They discuss the disappearance of You-Know-Who, otherwise known as Voldemort. Dumbledore tells McGonagall that Voldemort killed the Potter parents the previous night and tried to kill their son, Harry, as well, but was unable to. Dumbledore adds that Voldemort’s power apparently began to wane after his failed attempt to kill Harry and that he retreated. Dumbledore adds that the baby Harry can be left on the Dursleys’ doorstep. McGonagall protests that Harry cannot be brought up by the Dursleys. But Dumbledore insists that there is no one else to take care of the child. He says that when Harry is old enough, he will be told of his fate. A giant named Hagrid, who is carrying a bundle of blankets with the baby Harry inside, then falls out of the sky on a motorcycle. Dumbledore takes Harry and places him on the Dursley’s doorstep with an explanatory letter he has written to the Dursleys, and the three part ways.

Story telling Presentation

ZETHU MAYILA:

When Gcina Mhlope visited the University of Johannesburg, she said insight things that are food for thought to future teachers, especially the Foundation Phase. We should remember that in this phase we will focus on interactions and one of those interactions with learners involve story telling.

Here is a video clip of what she had to say about story telling.

Many people may ask why do we need to tell stories? Well, Ms Mhlope had a thing or two to say about it. However, do not take it from me, here it for your self.

Why do we tell stories? Gcina Mhlope explains all this in the following video clip.

LADIESBOOKCLUB

SERVICE LEARNING AND BOOK CLUB The name of the book *My sisters' wedding* it is all about sisters wedding, who got married. She cried because her dress was tore, her mother sawed it. They went to the church and wedding carried on. I think this book was appropriate for children because it shows the importance of our mothers in our lives.
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Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone Themes Palesa

The importance of Family

Family is a very important theme throughout Harry's life more especially when he is at Hogwarts and its time for the studenta to visit home. Harry misses the family he never knew – his parents – and hates the one he's stuck with – the Dursleys. Blood ties only go so far, and relationships don't necessarily mean that love is felt. Far from it, in fact. The Dursleys feed, clothe, and provide shelter for Harry, but they don't really love him, and they certainly don't treat him as though he belongs to the family. Instead, it's the people Harry meets at Hogwarts, both students and the staff who care, love and nurture him, and who slowly become his new chosen family.

The importance of Friendship

Making friends is one of the best things about going to Hogwarts. Without friends, life can be pretty sad. Having someone to side with you, to share with you, and to study with you – someone who has your back and will always be there when ever you need them and when ever they need you. Yet for Harry Potter and some of the other characters who've been set apart by their magical abilities, making real friends is only possible at wizarding school. Wizard friends are lifesavers, literally: who else can you collaborate with to defeat three-headed dogs or evil overlords? By making friends, the characters get to work together, learn from each other, and accomplish more than they ever would have on their own.

Loyalty

Loyalty is an important factor at Hogwarts, but not everyone at Hogwarts is good at it. In this book nearly everyone's loyal excpet Snape who conspires with Voldemort to steal the Philosophers stone and give it to him. Friends stand up for the ideas they believe in and each other. However, sometimes people – or creatures – have to behave in what seems like a disloyal manner for the greater good.

Harry Potter's main characters Palesa

Harry Potter's main characters

Palesa Lerothodi



 

Harry Potter  is an orphan who lost his parents at a very tender age. He is black-haired,  wears spectacles and did not know he was a wizard. In the book everything starts to happen just before and in the year following Harry's eleventh birthday. Voldemort's attack left a lightning bolt-shaped scar on Harry's forehead, which produces stabbing pains when Voldemort or a close person of the dark wizard feels any strong emotion. Harry has a natural talent for quidditch and the ability to persuade friends by passionate speeches.

Ron Weasley is Harry's age and is  Harry's best friend, always there when he needs him. Ron lacks confidence in his prospects of matching his three older brothers' achievements or the popularity of Fred and George, but his skill and bravery in a magical chess game where lives are at stake help Harry past one of the obstacles on the path to get to the Philosopher's Stone.

Hermione is  born from an all-Muggle family, is a bossy girl who has apparently memorised most of the textbooks before the start of term. she is also one of Harry's freinds together with Ron.Hermione is a very logical, upright and good character with a lot of insecurity and a great fear of failure. Despite her nagging efforts to keep Harry and Ron out of trouble, she becomes a close friend of the two boys after they save her from a troll, and her magical and analytical skills play a vital part in finding the Philosopher's Stone.

Professor Dumbledore is a tall, thin man who wears half-moon spectacles and has silver hair and a beard that tucks into his belt, is the headmaster of Hogwarts and thought to be the only wizard Voldemort fears. Dumbledore while renowned for his achievements in magic, finds it difficult to resist sweets and has a good sense of humour. Although he shrugs off praise, he is aware of his own brilliance.

Draco Malfoy is a slim, pale boy who speaks in a bored slow utturances. He is arrogant about his skill in quidditch and despises anyone who is not a pure blood wizard – and wizards who do not share his views. His parents had supported Voldemort, but changed sides after the dark wizard's disappearance. Malfoy avoids direct confrontations, and tries to get Harry and his friends into trouble.



Professor Mc Gonagall is  a tall, severe-looking woman with black hair tied-up in her hat.She  teaches transfiguration and sometimes transforms herself into a cat. She is in charge of Gryffindor House and unlike Professor Snape, shows no favouritism towards pupils in her House, but seizes any opportunity to help Gryffindor by fair means.Under that strict and serious face and exterio is a bit of an old softy.



Hagrid is a half-giant nearly 12 feet tall with tangled black hair and beard, was expelled from Hogwarts and his wand was broken, but Professor Dumbledore let him stay on as the school's (gamekeeper), a job which enables him to lavish affection and pet names on even the most dangerous of magical creatures like a baby dinasour he had. Hagrid is fiercely loyal to Dumbledore and quickly becomes a close friend of Harry, Ron and later Hermione, but his carelessness makes him unreliable.

 Voldemort is the wizzard that killed both Harry's parents and tried to kill Harry as well but did not succeed. He only left Harry with a scar that looks like a bolt of lightning.Later on in the book Harry and Voldemort meet again in the forest where he almost attacks Harry but his evil mission fails again. Towards the end of the book Voldermort seeks the Philosophers stone and realises that Harry has it. He once again tries to kill Harry for the stone but when he touches Harry had got burned by the love Harry had for his parents which is something Voldermort did not have and like.

Palesa Bookclub

My experiences in the bookclub

Palesa Lerothodi

My personal experiences in the book club were great. I say this because in my book club I was working with people I have never worked with before in any group work. I discovered that we all wanted the same thing which was to start a blog and interact with each other via the blog. We all encountered the same problem when we started the blog, we did not know how to create a blog, how to post and comment, but together we explored and taught each other about the blog and we never gave up. We were each others support systems.

Palesa Service Leaning at Maponya mall

Palesa Lerothodi

At Maponya mall I read book called A spook in my cupboard. The book is about a boy who discovers that there is a spook in his cupboard; the spook steals his books, shoes, toys and other things from the boy’s bedroom. This continues until one day the boy has had enough of the spook and decides to confront the spook. The spook then comes out of the cupboard and tries to scare the boy but the boy is not scared of the spook and they eventually talk about the spook stealing the boys things and they become friends and the spook stops stealing from the boy I really think the book was fun to read and I also think the children loved the book. I say this because as I was reading the book I paused to ask them questions and they were so eager to answer, they even wanted the opportunity to predict or tell others what they thought was going to happen next in the story. After the story the children had so much to tell me, they were telling about a spook they once saw at home, at the shops and other places. Others told me they have once spoken to a spook somewhere and they just could not stop talking, they were also asking me questions about the spook, if I had seen one before and it was such a wonderful feeling to me. I could see that the children were happy. 





SERVICE LEARNING AND BOOKCLUB:

MAKGOTSO: I read two Sotho story books to two different groups.

The first book was titled “Mangolo a mabedi” the story is about the boy who wrote letters to his brother and friend. He visited his grandmother in the rural place. He was informing them about the fun he is having and all the activities that is happening. He was very happy to be there as he went there with his mother and everybody was friendly and good to them. The even promised them that he will bring the photos of the friends he met and some of the creative things he did with his grandmother, such the beads work and needle work.

I chose this book because it teaches about the other means of communication. By writing letters it also develops writing and reading skills.

The second book is about the two boys and one girl who work together to create a toy and be able to play with it. They created an airplane with some recycling things.

I chose this book because it teaches children that they can build something out of nothing, you need to be creative.

Harry potter : movie clips

SERVICE LEARNING AND BOOK CLUB

Name of the book: Whoop!



The book is all about the boy  who wear his school uniform for the first time. And he is very excited because it was he first day at school. While he was running to school he fell on the groud and he's school uniform was full on mud.

He went back home and his mother give him new track suit to wear to school. Then he run again with his might speed and fell on the groud and his mother said whoops! whoops! Please be careful and watch were you are going because there are lots of stones and holes in the street that can hurt you.

He was dirty and crying that his new school uniform and new track suits are dirty. And asking his mother, what should I wear now?

by: Zanele Masilo

service learing and book clubs

Service learning and book clubs

Name of book: WHO LIKES GETTING WET 

This book is about farm animals and the farmer at the farm. They don’t like getting wet but there is only one animal that like getting wet and that is the frog. When it starts raining they start making different sounds and they run to their different houses.

I think this book was a good book for learning because the book has different animals that make different sounds. The main reason why we chose this book is because they teach different sounds of animals

By Lerato Ndabezitha

THEMES: Harry Potter and the Philoperstone

Home

Home is where the Hogwarts is. In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, school's not just where you study and learn cools spells; it's a real home. Harry may start out living in a house with the Dursleys, but it doesn't feel like home to him. To abuse the immortal words of Burt Bacharach, that "house is not a home." At Hogwarts, and in Gryffindor in particular, Harry finally feels a sense of belonging and comfort. Responsible adults care about and look after him, and he has good experiences, good meals, and good friends. It's not sugarcoated – there are still small and large-scale enemies – but for the first time Harry finds pleasure and safety in his living space.

Loyalty

Loyalty may be a Hufflepuff virtue, but everyone in Gryffindor is pretty good at it too. Face it, in this book nearly everyone's loyal – even the bad guys are loyal to their own side. Loyalty provides much of the motivation for plot points throughout Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: characters stand up for the ideas they believe in and each other. However, sometimes people – or creatures – have to behave in what seems like a disloyal manner for the greater good.

Courage

 Courage is one of the hallmarks of Gryffindor house, and it's also a defining characteristic for our main characters. Harry, Ron, Hermione, and even Neville all reveal themselves as possessing outstanding bravery, and it's their courage that helps them get through the climactic ordeals at the book's end. As Dumbledore praises them at the year-end banquet, he honors their explicit and implicit courage. This shows that the Hogwarts faculty values virtues like courage and loyalty as much as they do more wacky branches of magical education. Being able to make feathers float is all very well and good, but when push comes to shove, what really matters is how you face your fears.

The Supernatural

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone provides a doorway into a magical world. In addition to garden-variety witches and wizards, there are magic trains, magic candies, and several areas dedicated to magical commerce. There's a castle populated with ghosts, poltergeists, strange creatures, and things that go bump in the night, as well as a forest full of centaurs, unicorns, and creepy crawlies. A boarding school, often thought of as an ordinary thing, becomes tinged through and through with the extraordinary – with magic. Getting mail delivered by owl, learning to Transfigure matches into needles, or finding an invisibility cloak at the bottom of your bed? It's all part of a typical day at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Good vs. Evil

Good and evil come in all shapes and sizes and aren't necessarily restricted to magic or Muggle worlds, either. At first, we wonder who could be more evil than the cruel, unloving Dursleys and their bullying, slobby son. True, they get some competition from wizarding bullies, who like to intersperse insults with, you know, spells. But actually, there is someone: the half-alive, half-defeated, unicorn-killing, blood-drinking evilest wizard that ever evilled – Voldemort. Luckily, there are examples of goodness flooding Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, ranging from Harry's parents, whose love extends beyond the grave, to sweet awkward Neville, who sides with his friends no matter what.

 Lessons Learned From The Harry Potter Series

1. Your choices shape the kind of person you become.It doesn’t matter how inherently good you believe you are; if your choices in life don’t reflect kindness and loyalty, then you will not be perceived as kind or loyal. It doesn’t matter how talented you are; if you don’t practice or demonstrate your skills, then you will not be perceived as talented. We are all born with some good and bad in us, but ultimately we will be judged by the actions we take and the paths we follow. This also means that we are capable of change. On Harry’s first night at Hogwarts, the Sorting Hat suggests that he would do well in Slytherin (much like Tom Riddle, the eventual Lord Voldemort), but instead, Harry chooses to divert from Voldemort’s path and become a Gryffindor instead. This simple choice alone ultimately has a major impact on the next seven years of his life.

3. Your true friends will stick by you through the difficult times.Harry Potter lives a tough life as the Chosen One; not only must he balance academics, Quidditch and attempts at finding a girlfriend, but he is constantly bombarded with a new Voldemort-centered problem that he must solve. His two major constants: Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, his best friends. Whether he must destroy a Horcrux, escape a band of Death Eaters or save a hippogriff’s life, his friends are always there to help in any way that they can. In the past year especially, I have found that my truest friends have been those who stuck around not only when things were going well, but when times were rough. In other words, a true friend does not scare easily and will do his or her best to help you tackle any problem you have.

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4. There will always be injustices to fight.Discrimination takes place no matter where in the world you go, and it comes in all shapes and sizes. In the Harry Potter books, this discrimination is seen among magical creatures, as well as by blood status (Pureblood versus Half-Blood versus Muggle-Born). Throughout the series, Harry and his friends never stop fighting for what they believe in. In your own life, when you witness some sort of prejudice that you don’t agree with  it is important to stand up for your beliefs and for equality.

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5. Love is more powerful than hatred.Just as good conquers evil, so too does love usually conquer hate. In the  book, Voldemort (who has never known love and was even born out of a loveless union) is more or less destroyed by a mother’s fierce love for her son. Growing up, Harry often compares himself to Voldemort, but unlike the Dark Lord, Harry sustains strong relationships and is bound to his late parents by the love that courses through his veins. Although Voldemort has many followers, he is merely respected and feared, never loved. Ultimately, the good guys win. In real life, there is something to be said for killing your enemies with kindness. Hating someone else is completely pointless; if anything, it does you more harm than good.

ZANELE MASILO:   MAIN THEMES

Hi ladies this are the themes that we have discussed :

Love

Harry's own ability to love and be loved are the key traits that distinguish him from Voldemort and ensure that Harry will never be seduced by the Dark Arts. Harry's love for his parents instills him with an earnest determination to defeat Voldemort and rebell against anything associated with the Dark Arts (thus, Harry's refusal to be sorted into Slytherin House). Harry's ability to love also provides him with a support system of friends that Voldemort can never hope to match.

Friendship

Throughout the book, expresses the importance of friendship, particularly when it comes to overcoming challenges and difficult tasks. Before coming to Hogwarts, Harry is completely isolated. Not only does he not have a loving family environment, but he does not have any friends to serve as a support system. After becoming a student at Hogwarts, however, Harry quickly creates a large group of friends but, more importantly, a close relationship with Ron and Hermione. For most of the students at Hogwarts, a strong group of friends helps with homesickness and difficult classes. Yet, in Harry's case, Rowling draws a more obvious parallel between friendship and difficult life challenges: the only way that Harry is able to reach the Mirror of Erised in the dungeons of Hogwarts is with Ron and Hermione's help.

Power

The theme of power serves as another distinguishing trait between Harry and Voldemort. Voldemort's primary goal during his reign of terror over Britain was to acheive absolute power in both the wizarding and Muggle community. Even after he is nearly destroyed by his backfiring killing curse, Voldemort's objective is still to acheive absolute power, first by stealing the Sorcerer's Stone and using the elixir of life to construct another body and second, to reach the same height of tyranny that he had enjoyed before his downfall. Harry, on the other hand, has no interest in acheiving absolute power. His modest and pure nature leads him to desire nothing more than the company of his lost parents, as well as a little less attention from those around him. In fact, it is because Harry does not desire power that he is able to retrieve the Sorcerer's Stone from within the Mirror of Erised: Professor Quirrell and Voldemort both want to use the Stone to gain power.

 Death

Near the end of the book, Professor Dumbledore tells Harry, "Death is but the next great adventure." The book does not describe death as something to be feared or dreaded, but rather a part of the natural cycle of life that should be embraced as part of an individual's humanity. Death can also be viewed as something beautiful. For example, by sacrificing her own life for Harry, Lily Potter gave him the wondrous protection of her love and a chance at a life free from Voldemort's tyranny. Her death also provided Harry with purpose in his life and the determination to stop Voldemort from harming other innocent people.

The book still makes a clear distinction between the natural process of death and Voldemort's warped attempts to "defeat" it and attain immortality. After his failed attempt to kill Harry, Voldemort spent the next ten years existing only as "shadow and vapor," neither dead nor alive.

Choice

One of the most important themes in the book is the concept of choice and free will. Harry refuses to take a passive role when it comes to his own future, particularly when it means following the path marked by the dark wizard who killed his parents. Thus, instead of accepting the Sorting Hat's decision, Harry refuses to be placed in Slithering House and is placed in Gryffindor House instead.

 

 As Professor Dumbledore later explains to Harry, it is the choices made by an individual that determine what kind of person they are and why kind of person they will become. Nothing is cut in stone when it comes to an individual's future, but, as Harry demonstrates, each individual has the opportunity to change the direction of their life through significant, as well as insignificant, choices.

Finding 'who I am'

One of the important themes in the book is finding who you are. Harry did'nt know who he is until he met Hadrig at the island and told him that he is a wizard. The muggles kept it a secret that Harry was a wizard. After discovering himself, he seemed to be happy and enjoying himself at Howgarts compared to the life he lived with the Muggles. He even got presents while he was at school during Christmas holidays.

  Humility

One of the primary traits that differentiate Harry from the more malevolent characters in the book, such as Voldemort and Draco Malfoy, is his humility. Despite his reputation as the boy-who-lived and his skills in Quidditch, Harry maintains a modest persona throughout the novel.Harry's humility is, in part, a direct result of his neglected childhood with the Dursleys. Because he was never treated as someone who was special, Harry grew up with the understanding that respect is not readily given and must be achieved. Harry's humility becomes  particularly significant as a theme of the book when he faces Voldemort in the dungeons of Hogwarts.