This document outlines a 5-day lesson plan using Harry Potter to teach literary elements. Each day focuses on a different element or topic: Day 1 is Hogwarts houses, Day 2 is Quidditch and a timeline, Day 3 is protagonists, Day 4 is antagonists, and Day 5 reviews progression through the books and elements. Students will engage with videos, readings, discussions and create wiki pages to document their learning about characters, plots and how Harry Potter demonstrates literary elements. The assessment asks students to create a cumulative news report summarizing their weekly findings and analyzing how the works fill each element.

1. Weekly Objectives:
Learn the 5 Literary Elements of Literature through Harry Potter
Parts of Harry Potter that will be covered each day:
Day 1 – Hogwarts Houses
- ASSURE
- Pre-Survey Gauging Existing Knowledge linked using QR code
- Definition poster will be shown at beginning of each morning with 7 common terms when
dealing with Harry Potter terms
- Day 1 Assignment Sheet
- Wikispaces will be linked too using QR Code
- Listen to Vokis about each of the 5 literary elements
- Begin Wiki Creation
o Create page for Literary Elements and document what’s covered by the vokis in this
page for reference throughout the week
- Read Over Blog Post detailing each of the 5 houses
o Comment on Blog as if they were an upcoming Hogwarts student discussing which
house they’d want to be in
- Students will create a poster advertising for their favored house outlining the qualities it’s
known for
- Everything will be documented and added to the Day 1 section of the Wiki
Day 2 - Quidditch and Timeline
- ASSURE
- Definition poster will be shown at beginning of each morning with 7 common terms when
dealing with Harry Potter terms
- Review Vokis as bellringer from the days before
- Day 2 Assignment Sheet
- Listen to Podcast giving brief summaries for each book
- Complete webquest on Quidditch
- Each small group create an informative youtube video detailing assigned sections (there will be
8 videos (1 for each book summary and 1 group explaining how to play QUidditch)
- At end of day, students will watch video of an Arts and Bots robot creation showing the battle of
Hogwarts
- Document everything on Wiki under Day 2 section
Day 3 – Protagonists
- ASSURE
- Definition poster will be shown at beginning of each morning with 7 common terms when
dealing with Harry Potter terms
- Go to a pre determined Twitter link giving the definition to Protagonist linked to on QR

2. - Review Vokis as bellringer from the days before
- Assignment Sheet from Day 3
- Follow QR Code to harry potter character wiki
- Create graphic organizer to outline which characters on the wikia are protagoni sts using
powerpoint
- Complete webquest about Dumbledore
- Watch YouTube video outlining several of the main protagonists and how important they are to
the overall storyline of Harry Potter
- Fill in Smartboard tri venn diagram comparing and contrasting Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and
Hermione Granger
- Document everything under Day 3 tab on wiki
Day 4 – Antagonists
- ASSURE
- Go to a pre-determined Facebook page Link giving the definition to Antagonist linked with QR
- Review Vokis as bellringer from the days before
- Definition poster will be shown at beginning of each morning with 7 common terms when
dealing with Harry Potter terms
- Assignment Sheet Day 4
- Watch photo story that outlines a few of the major antagonists and why they were antagonists
- Follow QR code to harry potter character wiki
- Create graphic organizer to outline which characters on the wikia are antagonists on Glogster
- Analyze altered image and create a photostory to display analysis
- Document everything under Day 4 tab on wiki
Day 5 - Year to year Progression
- ASSURE
- Review Vokis as bellringer from the days before
- Definition poster will be shown at beginning of each morning with 7 common terms when
dealing with Harry Potter terms
- Day 5 Assignment Sheet
- Students will listen to a small series of Vokis where they talk about how Harry Potter completes
each element of literature so students can compare and expand on their work from earlier in
the week
- Students will do some free research and documentation using the unoffici al Harry Potter wikia
which is linked with QR code
- Students will create a podcast on their free research findings explaining what topic they
researched, what they found about their research, and what components of their topic fit into
each of the 5 literary elements
o This will go on day 5 of their wiki
- For assessment, children will create a cumulative database using days 1-5. For assessment, all of
their findings will be put together in a breaking news format where they will outline their
findings from each of the 5 days activities, explain what each of the 5 literary elements are, and
talk about how Harry Potter fills each of the 5 literary elements. This page of the wiki must be

3. filled out using only information gathered throughout the week. This page wil l use the following
template:
o BREAKING NEWS!
 Brief Description of what the article will include (findings from the week, an
explanation of the 5 literary elements, and how the 5 elements of literature are
filled using Harry Potter.)
o Weekly Findings
 Discuss briefly about what was learned throughout the week
o 5 Elements of Literature
 Briefly tell what each of the 5 literary elements are:
 Setting
 Theme
 Style
 Characters
 Plot
o 5 Elements of Literature and How Harry Potter fills each one:
 Setting
 Theme
 Style
 Characters
 Plot