Welcome witches, wizards, and muggles to the Harry Potter Book Club!

In this class we will read the second Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" by J.K. Rowling. This class is perfect for first time Harry Potter readers and for students that want to re-read the series. In this class we will follow along with Harry, Ron, and Hermione on the adventures that await during their second year at Hogwarts! This is a flex class, so there are no live meetings, but we will still be interacting and participating with each other in the classroom! Each week there will be discussion questions posted in the classroom that the students will need to answer after reading the assigned chapters. The discussion questions will help the students to critically think about what they read each week. Through the class discussions the students will work on comprehension skills, character analysis, comparing and contrasting, connections, author's purpose, and much more! The discussions will take place in the Outschool classroom and students are encouraged to respond to their classmate's posts as well as the questions.

Each week the students will also have a short writing assignment to submit. They will have a choice of two writing prompts each week and will complete and submit whichever one they prefer. The writing prompts will be based on the reading from that week and students will be encouraged to get creative in their writing. I will provide feedback on student writing each week highlighting what I think they did really well with and giving some tips on how to make their writing even better.

Each week the students will also have a short writing assignment to submit. They will have a choice of two writing prompts each week and will complete and submit whichever one they prefer. The writing prompts will be based on the reading from that week and students will be encouraged to get creative in their writing. I will provide feedback on student writing each week highlighting what I think they did really well with and giving some tips on how to make their writing even better.

I will explain the writing assignment options each week by video and post them in the classroom. The writing assignments will be sent directly to me and will not be posted publicly in the classroom.

Discussion questions and writing assignments will be posted on Sunday each week and will be due by Saturday. The reading schedule is listed below,

Reading Schedule
Week 1- Chapters 1-5
Week 2- Chapters 6-9
Week 3- Chapters 10-13
Week 4- Chapters 14-18

*The class picture is my own personal photograph of the Jacobite Steam Train in Scotland