All Harry Potter Fans know it to be true- the Gryfindors are the brave house, the Ravenclaws are the smart house, the Slytherins are evil, and Hufflepuffs are just miscellaneous
...right? 

Explore the black, white, and shades of gray that exist within each house. Question why we think of Slytherins as evil and Hufflepuffs as boring as we travel through time, learning about historic figures who have made their mark on the world and deciding which house they best belong to. Experience the good, evil, and somewhere in between in this ongoing history course. In this course, students will evaluate any historic figure from any time and place in history. We will also briefly discuss what was going on in the world at this time, for context. We will delve into the highs and lows, the flaws, the tragedies, and the motivations of each historic figure. At the end of each class, we will refer back to the Hogwarts houses to decide: what house would the Sorting Hat have put this leader in? Students will have to defend their position, especially if someone else disagrees!

This class can include anyone from history- from ancient emperors to Enlightenment artists and anything in between and beyond. I will take requests! Julius Caesar, Ada Lovelace, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Mary Wollstonecraft, Aristotle, Ghandi, and Mansa Musa are just some of the possibilities in this class! Students can make requests any time! 


Before class starts: Students should determine their own Hogwarts house through an official J.K. Rowling quiz that can be found on Pottermore.com or here: https://www.gotoquiz.com/pottermore_sorting_quiz_all_possible_question



This class will be best suited for students who are fans of the Harry Potter series, whether books or movies. The "Hogwarts houses" will create a framework for defining character traits, and will ultimately help students expand their definition of good and bad. Students can download the included "house sheet" with the traits of each Hogwarts house to help guide them. 

Schedule:



5/31: Chevalier d'Éon
6/7: Voltaire
6/14: Audra Lorde
6/21: Oscar Wilde
6/28: Marsha P. Johnson
7/5: Ben Franklin
7/12: Laura Ingalls Wilder
7/19: Charles Lindbergh
7/26: Martha Washington
8/2: Antonin Artaud 
8/9: Lady Bird Johnson
8/16: Pol Pot
8/23: Margaret Sanger
8/30: Puyi
9/6: Typhoid Mary
9/13: Davy Crockett
9/20: Audrey Hepburn
9/27: Haile Selassie
10/4: Ranavalona I
10/11: Benjamin Lay
10/18: Victoria Woodhull
10/25: Franz Kafka
11/1: No Class 
11/8: Teresa of Avila
11/15: Vladimir Lenin
11/22: Marie Curie
11/29: no class
12/6: no class
12/13: Joseph Smith
12/20: Empress Dowager Cixi
12/27: Steve McQueen 




Old: 
Week of 5/19-22: Hélder Câmara
Week of 5/26-29: Émilie du Châtelet
Week of 6/2-5: Mark Twain
Week of 6/9-6/12: Kristina of Sweden
Week of 6/16-19: Oludah Equiano
Week of July 10: Queen Liliuokalani 
Week of July 17: Teddy Roosevelt 
Week of July 24: Cleopatra 
Week of July 31: HP Lovecraft
Week of August 7: Wu Zhao 
Week of August 14: Fidel Castro 
Week of August 21: Marie Antoinette 
Week of August 28: Napoleon 


1/15 Che Guevera
1/22: Margaret Thatcher 
1/29: Ruth Bader Ginsburg 
2/5: Martin Luther King Jr
2/12: Teddy Roosevelt
2/19: No class
2/26: Jane Goodall
3/5: Mother Theresa 
3/12 Ludwig II
3/19 Olaudah Equiano
3/26 Mary Shelley 
4/2: No class 
4/9: Frieda Kahlo
4/16: Shigeru Miyamoto
4/23: James Baldwin 
4/30: No class
5/7: Cleopatra
5:14: Julius Caesar
5/21: Christina, Queen of Sweden 
5/28: Clement Atlee 
6/4: Coco Chanel 
6/11: Harvey Milk
6/18: Marsha P. Johnson
6/25: Alan Turing 
7/9: Chien-Shiung Wu
9/10: Queen Lili'uokalani
9/17: Voltaire
9/24: Coco Chanel
10/8: Genghis Khan
10/15: Wu Zetian
10/22: Mary I of England
10/29: Vlad the Impaler
11/5: Robert Smalls
11/12: Eleanor of Aquitaine 
11/19: Sitting Bull
No class 11/26
12/3: Maria Tallchief
12/10: Vladimir Lenin
No class 12/17-12/31

1/7: Victoria Woodhull
1/14: Betty White
1/21: Steve Irwin
1/28: Olga of Kiev
2/4: Tycho Brahe 
2/11: Aretha Franklin
2/18: Frederick Douglass  
2/25: No class- February Break
3/4: Magdalena Leones
3/14: Catherine the Great
3/18-3/24: Elizabeth I
3/25-3/31: James Joyce
4/1-4/7: Freddy Mercury
4/8-4/14: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
4/15 & 4/25: Henry Ford
4/18-22: No Class; Spring Break
4/29-5/5: Celia Sanchez
5/6-5/12: Mao Zedong
5/13-5/19: Vladimir Lenin (No Class 5/13)
5/20-5/26: Eleanor Roosevelt 
5/27-6/3: H. P. Lovecraft
6/3-6/9: Ada Lovelace & Mary Wollstonecraft 
6/10-6/15: James Buchanan 
6/17-7/4: No Class
7/8-7/14: Sally Ride
7/15-7/21: Walt Disney
7/22: No Class
7/29: Sojourner Truth
8/6-9/9: No class during August
Week of 9/5: Harold Holt
Week of 9/12: Elizabeth II
Week of 9/19: William the Conqueror 
Week of 9/26: Alice Roosevelt 
Week of 10/3: Nelson Mandela
Week of 10/10: Hellen Keller (Fri only)
Week of 10/17: Caesar Chavez 
Week of 10/24-31: Eliza Hamilton
Week of 11/1-14: Emperor Hirohito 
Week of 11/18-21:  Sacheen Littlefeather
No Class 11/25 (11/28: Winston Churchill) 
Week of 12/2-5: Marilyn Monroe/Elvis Presley 
Week of 12/9-12: Queen Victoria (no Friday class)
Week of 12/16-19: Hedy Lamaar
No Class from 12/26-1/6
Week of 1/9: Woodrow Wilson
Week of 1/16: Mary Anning
Week of 1/23: Theodor Seuss Geisel
Week of 1/31: Rosa Parks
Week of 2/6: Macolm X
Week of 2/13: Nellie Bly
Week of 2/20: Henry XVIII
Week of 3/6: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Week of 3/13: Konrad Adenauer
Week of 3/20: Marsha P. Johnson
Week of 3/27: Kurt Cobain

No Class First Week of April
Week of 4/14-17: Beatrix Potter
Week of 4/21-24: Alexander Hamilton
Week of 4/28-5/1: Susan B. Anthony 
Week of 5/5-8: Langston Hughes  
Week of 5/12-15: Betty White

Week of 9/11: Louis Pasteur 
Week of 9/18: Bessie Coleman/Amelia Earhart 
Week of 9/25: Walt Disney (no Friday class) 

Week of 10/9: Smedley D. Butler
Week of 10/16: Margaret Keane
Week of 10/23: Ben Franklin 
Week of 10/30: Elizabeth Bathory 
Week of 11/3-6: Benito Mussolini
Week of 11/10-13: Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte
Week of 11/17-20: William Shakespeare 
Week of 11/27: (No Friday class) Victoria Woodhull
Week of 12/1-12/4: Henry Clay 
Week of 12/8-12/11: Madam C. J. Walker
WEek of 12/18: C.S. Lewis

No class 12/25-12/1


Week of 1/5-1/8: Judith Love Cohen
Week of 1/12-1/15: John Brown
Week of 1/19-1/22: Clara Barton
Week of 1/26-1/29: Sir Isaac Newton
Week of 2/2-2/5: Alice Paul
Week of 2/9-2/12: Andy Warhol
Week of 2/16-2/19: Alice Austen
Week of 2/23-2/26: Ray Bradbury
Week of 3/1-3/5: Empress Elisabeth 
Week of 3/9-3/12: Idi Amin
Week of 3/15-3/18: FDR
Week of 3/22-3/25: Deborah Sampson
Week of 3/29-4/1: No class, Easter Weekend
Week of 4/5-8: Ernest Hemingway
Week of 4/12-4/15: Queen Seondeok




*Students are more than welcome to request people to discuss in this class. My only constraint is that they not be politically active at this time.*