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.

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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

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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.

harry potter and the quidditch game

sthembile: harry potter's first game with his captain woods, woods first showed harry potter the seeker ball, and what to do as a seeker. harry potter on the new nimbus 2000 is flying on top  of  hogwarts.

Harry Potter and his friends

     

Additional charactors of Harry Potter

 DUSLEYsS FAMILY: They contributed to the misurable upbringing of Harry. They were very cruel to Harry and even hided to him that is a wizzard.

PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: She is the Transfiguration professor and head the Gryfindor House. She also possess the ability to turn herself into a tubby cat. she was also with Professor Dumbledore leaves Harry on the Dursle's doorstep, and also opposes the decision to leave Harry with this cruel and unpleasant family.