Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Book Club

Students will read approximately three chapters a lesson on their own time. Each lesson, a new video will discuss the pages that the students have previously read. This class does not meet live. The prerecorded sessions will emphasize characters, their motivations, theme, story plausibility, and inferences about what might come next. 

Each lesson, students will have access to a video that covers the important elements of the week's reading and a corresponding one-page worksheet with discussion questions and places for fill-in-the blank answers. The worksheets will also address/remind the students of some of the important topics from each chapter. Each lesson, I assign a short writing assignment focused around that lesson's discussion questions. I also ask students to submit any vocabulary words the students didn't recognize or passages the students did not understand. The more questions the students ask, the more "discussion" we can have in the classroom after each chapter. 

Lesson breakdown:
Students will receive a worksheet and discussion questions for each video. There is one weekly writing assignment to complete after the readings. I will post a vocabulary word for the students to use in a sentence that showcases their understanding of the definition.  Finally, I post a link to an optional Harry Potter-themed Kahoot! quiz the students can fill out to further immerse themselves in this world. Kahoot! is a free resource. Students who struggle with timed tests may skip this optional resource.