kids researching from Harry Potter

JandLComm at aol.com JandLComm at aol.com
Fri Oct 27 01:03:50 UTC 2000


No: HPFGUIDX 4694

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Ellimist15 at a... wrote> 
> > Oh, and on a completely unrelated note, I just wanted to thank 
> Steve! The 
> > link from the Lexicon has made my site more popular than I ever 
> could have 
> > dreamed. I got over one thousand hits just today! ::hugs Steve::
> 
> You're welcome (and I always like hugs). I believe what's going on 
> right now is a couple of middle school projects. I've been in 
contact 
> with some teachers who are using the Harry Potter books with their 
> classes. They assign the kids to research the etymology of the 
words 
> in Harry Potter using your site and mine. I had to help one school 
> get your site made available to them when it was blocked by their 
> filtering software. I think it's pretty cool that middle school 
kids 
> are learning about origins of words from the HP books. 
> 
> And I think it's pretty cool that they're using your site to do it! 
> I'm not getting THAT many hits, so I know they're heading straight 
> for yours. Congratulations :)
> 
> Steve Vander Ark
> The Harry Potter Lexicon
> http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon

Steve and Ellie,

As one of those middle school teachers researching etymologies in 
Harry Potter, I want to thank you both for providing excellent 
resources for my kids.  I made the Lexicon a favorite place in our 
school library, and we went there this past Monday and Wednesday 
(Oct. 23 and 25) to reasearch name origins. (They used the Lexicon 
link to your site, Ellie, and you would have thought they had found 
the Holy Grail!) With a little advance work, I was able to remove the 
blocks on various HP sites, including "What's In A Name?" and the 
Encyclodedia Potterica's new name origin link. (Thanks, Steve).  It's 
so much fun for them and for me as well.  (I seem to have become 
obsessed -- now how did that ever happen?)

By the way, Ellie, my students loved your comments about Harry 
Potter's name and Lavender Brown's as well.  They were amused.

Steve, several kids are working on compiling the research we did on 
magical creatures in HP.  They want to eamil you a copy of it to let 
you know how much your site helped them with the work.  They really 
liked the book and chapter notations about where the beasts could be 
found in the series.

Thanks again.  Your work makes my job more fun!

Linda Comm
Greensburg, PA





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