Objective: Using the Web (Trackstar) and writing software, students will answer vocabulary and literature questions related to the book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Anticipatory Set: This activity will help the students in collecting and organizing relevant information in order to construct a product such as a computer-generated report.

• Students have read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
• Students have been introduced to the writing program Microsoft Word (MS Word) or other word processing program. Students have practiced copying and pasting text in MS Word.
• Students have some experience looking at web sites.

Materials: computer (1 per student if available), access to the internet, 1 copy of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone per student (for reference)

Delivering Instruction/Model and Lead:

Guided Practice/ Lead & Test:

Independent Practice:

• The teacher will have the students work independently (or in groups, depending upon the number of computers) on the remainder of the questions.
• The teacher will monitor that the students save their work.
• After completing the questions to the activity, the students will print out the MS Word document.

Formative Evaluation:

Extension Activity: Have the students refer back to Trackstar, this time to another Harry Potter web activity*. Ask the students to look over some web sites and to copy and paste some of their favorite pictures or quotes to a MS Word document.

*Trackstar #18191, for example

Accommodations: The students will be given written as well as oral directions for the activity. A program that reads on-screen text, such as Cast eReader or WeMedia for example, will be used for students who have trouble reading. Students who need visual aids will have their computers adjusted to create a larger font.