Different Kinds Of Games

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1. A Sketching Table
Provide pencils, art paper, and erasers, along with posters and pictures for students to use as models. It's surprising how many students enjoy drawing characters, magical items, insignia, or important scenes from the Potter books. You will need a bulletin board and pins for posting the finished products, or scan them to a class website for everyone to admire. It's also a good idea to save a few framed pictures from one year to use as inspiration for the next year.

2. Harry Potter Memorabilia Game
This is a variation on trivia quizzes, but instead of asking questions, the sponsor pulls objects related to the Harry Potter books from a cauldron or some other mysterious container and gives students a chance to Man Shoes raise their hands and be the first to identify or make a connection. Objects can range from something as simple as a toothpick saved from a restaurant sandwich (a toothpick was what the Dursleys gave Harry as a Christmas present one year) to commercial products ranging from T-shirts and stuffed pets to professionally made wands.

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... Playing Lord Voldemort's Name Game
For this game, the sponsor divides a sheet of paper into quarters and prints on each section an intriguing name from the Harry Potter books (e.g., Hermione, Draco Malfoy, Mad-Eye Moody, or Albus Dumbledore) with numbered lines printed underneath each name. Contestants see how many names they can create and write on the lines using only letters from the given name. If they manage to use all the letters from the original name, then they have created a true anagram. Tell them to put a star by their true anagrams so that the judges will know to award double points. The longer the names, the harder it will be for students to use all the letters, which is why it was such a surprise to readers when J. K. Rowling led them to the discovery that Tom Marvolo Riddle is an anagram for I Am Lord Voldemort.

4. Latin as a Living Language
If your students have been studying Latin roots and affixes as a foundation for vocabulary lessons, which many educators suggest is one of the best ways to teach vocabulary, they will be well prepared to excel in this activity. For this game, a teacher-appointed Magical Language Committee prints the names of charms or spells from the books, such as Levicorpus (to lift the victim's body and hang it upside down); Lumos! (to bring light); Oppugno! (to attack); and Petrificus Totalus (to turn a victim to stone). Next to each charm, committee members list the respective Latin roots from the names of the charms and their English translations: levis, meaning "not heavy"; corpus, meaning "body"; lumen, meaning "to bring light"; pugno, meaning "to fight"; petra, meaning "stone"; and to us, meaning "total or complete." On the numbered spaces beneath each Latin charm, students see how many English words they can write that are based on the Latin roots. Modern English words related to Levi corpus, for example, could Designer Shoes include levitate, alleviate, elevate, elevation, elevator, levee, and unleavened bread, as well as corpse, corporation, Marine Corps, corpsman, corpulent, and incorporated. Words related to lumos include illuminate, luminance, luminous, and luminary. Words related to oppugn include pugilist, pugnacious, pug nosed, and repugnant, while words related to perfidious to talus include petrified, the name Peter, petro glyph, petrol, and petrology, along with total, totally, and totalitarian.