The Harry Potter series has played a large role in the lives of children over the past 15 years. These books have caused students to engage themselves into the story, such as role playing. The Harry Potter series is world famous and there is now a Harry Potter world in a famous amusement park. The amusement park has caused students and readers alike to reread the series before the experience the world of Harry Potter for themselves. The Harry Potter series fits into the genre of modern fantasy, and this genre is a very popular for children who read today.
Modern fantasy teaches children and readers about friendship, sacrifice, selfishness, and death. It also provides children with the framework of the literature, drama, and art they will later encounter in their schooling. Modern fantasy provides a strong rhythm , rhyme, and repetition of patterns. Teachers can use modern fantasy to have students study stories from other countries. Students will be able to compare and contrast other cultures. Teachers can have students study complex patterns, library devices, and metaphorical language that allows them to think abstractly and make inferences.
Robot Zot, a small toy, has come to take our planet captive. The reader quickly learns that Robot Zot is smaller than you think. He begins his attack in the kitchen. Zot then takes his battle elsewhere in the home, here he discovers the princess, a child’s toy cell phone. Zot now has to become a hero to save the cell phone and allow them to live happily ever after.
Every student at Springtime Elementary wants to be in Ms. Plum’s class. Students are not only interested in the unusual ways she teaches, but they are interested in her mysterious supply closet. If a student is asked to receive something out of the closet, they would return with something that wouldn’t usually belong in a closet. Students aren’t sure whether or not the magic comes from her or her closet.
Earwig and the Witch By Diana Wynne Jones
Earwig is a crafty and interesting orphan. Earwig was left at St. Morwald’s as a baby. Unlike the other orphans, Earwig really enjoys being at the orphanage, mainly because she’s able to get what she wants by persuading people. The very strange Bella Yaga comes to the orphanage, but Earwig doesn’t like anything about her. So Earwig decides to do some very strange things, but this backfires. Bella Yaga loved Earwig and her strange habits, so Bella Yaga adopts Earwig. Now that Bella Yaga is Earwig’s ‘mother,’ Earwig begins to realize her mom is a horrible witch.
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