Webquest: Harry Potter: Think and Write

 

This blog is a part of my classroom activity on Web Quest on Harry Potter series in we have to search three best web resources and give argument and illustration for given point by Dr. Dilip Barad sir. To know more about Web Quest task click here to read professor's blog.

What is Web Quest?

"A WebQuest," according to Bernie Dodge, the originator of the WebQuest concept, "is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than on looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation." 

Activity:

 Web quest: Harry Potter 

Harry Potter All part

 Wwyp ( Working With Young People), carry out following tasks with the help of internet search engines:

1) Find at least three good web resources for the following topic/s.

2) Find key arguments for the discourse on the given topic/s 

3) Note down illustrations from Harry Potter for the arguments

1) Feminist reading of Harmione’s character in Harry Potter: How do the character portrayal of Harmione and other female characters support feminist discourse?

Harmione's characters in Harry Potter

Harry Potter brings many debates about how the women in the novels are portrayed, and how that portrayal will affect readers. One specific point that is discussed is the fact that the lead is a male, and some of the other significant powerful characters are also males, creating the thought that Harry Potter is sexist.

 J.K. Rowling has created a feminist work of literature when she wrote Harry Potter, and disprove the fact that Harry Potter is sexist. Feminism is a hard concept to define. Author of Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, John Storey gives anindepth meaning when he states“feminism is always more than a body of academic texts and practices. It is also, and perhaps more fundamentally so, a political movement concerned with women’s oppression and the ways and means to empower women”.

Researcher Michele Fry states that “readers can see Hermione not only as a strong female character, an essential part of Harry's life, but also as a feminist protagonist in her own right” (165). Fry argues that Hermione can be seen as another main character in the series, and this is an interesting point that she brings up. Many strong female characters appear throughout the series, and they play many differing parts, including a friend, mother, sister, student, etc. Hermione Granger is a good example of the many parts a character might represent because she is a friend and a student, and she is portrayed in many different lights throughout the novels.

Throughout Harry Potter “we see Hermione the giggler, Hermione the helpful and capable, Hermione the emotionally expressive, and Hermione the clever”. Hermione fights battles differently than do the boys in the novels, she uses her reason and logic in order to solve problems and mysteries, and her strength can be seen from this. Cherland would agree with Fry that the female characters have crucial, non-stereotypical roles within Harry Potter, and we can see this clearly by examining the character of Hermione Granger. 

Hermione is that character that is smart, and she is able to figure out most of the secrets that no one else can. Her knowledge and brains save her and her friends throughout the series multiple times, showing her strength every time she uses her intellect to defeat a problem.

She is a feminist and a good role model because she works really hard to demonstrate that even though she is a girl, she is just as good as the boys. She proves to everyone that she is intelligent, faithful, and courageous in the part of Harry Potter and goblet fire.

2) Discourse on the purity of Blood and Harry Potter: How do the novels play with the thesis of pure blood (Master Race) giving an anti-thesis by belonging protagonists to half-blood / Mud-blood? What sort of synthesis is sought in this discourse in Harry Potter series?

Purity of blood

Voldemort's obsession with blood purity signifies his aim to rid the wizarding world of Muggle (non-magical) heritage and to conquer both worlds, Muggle and wizarding, to achieve pure-blood dominance. Through his mother's family, he is the last descendant of the wizard Salazar Slytherin, one of the four founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is the leader of the Death Eaters, a group of evil wizards and witches dedicated to ridding the Wizarding World of Muggles and establishing Voldemort as its supreme ruler.

3) Confronting reality by reading fantasy: How does reading Harry Potter make us confront the reality of our everyday existence?

Fantasy of Harry Potter

4) Self-Help culture and Harry Potter: How does it stand by an argument that Self-Help Culture serves as a tool of social control: it sooths political unrest . . . one blames oneself for not getting better off is society and remains in one's own pursuit of self-invention, blaming oneself for the failure rather than the systems?

5) The discourse of Power and Politics in Harry Potter: How does Ministry of Magic control the resistance? How do they prosecute the ‘Other’?

6) Children’s Literature and Harry Potter: How far does J K Rowling transcends the canonical confines of children’s literature and claims the heights of ‘real’ literature?

7) Speculative literature and Harry Potter: What is speculative literature? How far Harry Potter qualifies for the same? Does J K Rowling transcends the confines of speculative literature and claim the heights of ‘real’ literature?

8) The theme of Choice and Chance: How does Harry Potter discusses the antithetical concepts of ‘choice’ and ‘chance’?

9) The theme of Love and Death: How does Harry Potter make use of age old theme of Love of the dead as well as living as protecting armour? How does Harry Potter deal with the concept of Death as something inevitable?

10) Moral and Philosophical reading of Harry Potter: How does the concept of ‘evil breeds evil’ unfold in Harry Potter? What is the significance of Harry being one of the Horcruxes?

11) Christianity and Harry Potter Series: How many times Harry and his friends visit Church? how often in the moments of crisis when they are helpless, clueless, they pray to God for Grace or Mercy? How many times God's Grace saves them from the Devil Lord Voldemort? Does J.K. Rowling use Christianity at any level in the entire Harry Potter series?

12) What is your opinion on this:

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