House Cup May Classes
Ancient Runes
This month, show your savvy at communicating--or not communicating--through your crafting.
Option 1 - Craft something to secure a means of communication, whether it’s a cozy for your laptop or socks to protect your feet when you go to visit a friend.
Option 2 - Craft something that could serve as a shibboleth, that is, something that proves membership in a particular group (ex: the dark mark that Voldemort’s followers wore; in the Muggle world, a Red Hat for the Red Hat society; something in house colors for Hogwarts; etc.)
Option 3 - Craft something with a hidden message. You’ll have to work hard to sell this one.
Astronomy
Our focus in class this month will be an oft-overlooked part of our solar system: the asteroid belt. We can’t see it, but we know it’s there. In addition to the spherical sun and planets, our solar system contains a multitude of lumpy, bumpy, and unruly celestial objects. Let’s turn our attention to these lesser-sung bodies in the sky.
Option 1: Craft something irregular. Try your hand at free-form crochet or knitting. Spin art yarn. Dye a yarn inspired by the asteroid belt. Imitate organic forms - break away from clean lines and symmetry and let your imagination free.
Option 2: Make a belt.
Care of Magical Creatures - Griffin
Option 1: make treasure
Option 2: make something to keep treasure safe
Option 3: make something that’s a combination.
Charms
Option 1: Craft something that represents a link between two people or locations. This could be purely symbolic, such as crafting something that reminds you of a loved one, or it could be crafting something related to a method by which people can stay in touch. The Muggles have a device called a “fellytone” that allows them to speak to each other over long distances, so a “fellytone” cozy would be acceptable.
Option 2: Craft something that will help you, or someone you know, be remembered after you are gone. The key to this option is the story: whose memory are you preserving? How does the object you crafted succeed in Permanently Sticking them to the walls of history?
DADA
Option 1: Craft a project inspired by Mongolia or Japan, where Kappas are most commonly found.
Option 2: Craft a project that you might take to the beach on your own future vacations.”
Option 3: Craft an object that represents one of your past vacations. We realize that some of you may not really be the beach type.”
History of Magic
This month please demonstrate an understanding of the wild beauty that represents the Wizarding sense of style across the ages, full of color and flair. We’ll be celebrating the stylish impulses that tell us to go ahead and match our stripes with our paisleys!
Option 1: Search history for someone you consider a Wizarding style icon, and craft something to represent his or her sense of style. You may study any Witch, Wizard, or other member of the magical community from any point in history, and feel free concentrate your studies on personal fashions or home décor.
Option 2: Embrace your own inner Wizarding flair for fashion! Using the playful nature of Wizard fashions throughout history as your starting point, craft something that could start a new Wizarding trend today. What new fashion would you like to see displayed in the shop windows of Diagon Ally? No need to be shy here -- let your magical flamboyance shine and sell us your creations!
Muggle Studies
Option 1: Visit a muggle art museum and find a piece of art that inspires you. It may be a painting, sculpture, photograph or any other form of art found in a muggle art museum. Knit, crochet, weave, spin or dye something inspired by your chosen work of art, and explain how your homework reflects the art that inspired you. Different students are moved by different things, so your homework might reflect the shape, colors, or subject matter of the artwork, or even the emotions you felt whilst studying it. You may even wish to recreate the actual work of art (crochet Venus de Milo anyone?).
Option 2: Alternatively, you may choose to be an active participant in the muggle art world, by engaging in your own “yarnstorming” project. Please explain why you chose the subject of your “storm” and provide photographic evidence of your work. The object created by the yarnstorming must be knit, crocheted or woven; simply wrapping an object with yarn is not acceptable for this assignment. Unfortunately, we will be unable to accept yarn spun or dyed for a future yarnstorming event. (But feel free to use yarn spun or dyed for another class to knit, crochet, or weave your art!)
The item(s) must also be displayed in a public place (open area or, if indoors, in a place open to the public) OR in a privately-owned outdoor space (like the license plate of a car, for example). Yarnstorming within the confines of one’s own home is called “decorating”, and is not acceptable for this assignment. You must be prepared to leave your item displayed for all to see, and it should be large enough to be seen by the public from at least a couple of feet away (so no yarnstorming in your own backyard).
Potions - Draught of Peace
Option 1: Adding ingredients carefully: Craft an item that uses 2 or more individual colours in a balanced way. Or spin and dye 2 or more individual colours to create a pleasing yarn.
Examples: fair isle, intarsia, double knitting, etc. For spinning, ply different colours together
Option 2: Stirring the Potion: Craft an item with 7 colour changes.
Examples: striping between 2 or more colours, dyeing a self striping yarn, complex intarsia or fair isle, for spinners spinning a yarn that will stripe or navajo plying to produce stripiness
Option 3: Simmering the Potion: Dyers create an overdyed yarn, either overdyeing a commercially dyed yarn or one you have dyed yourself. Before and after pictures and process pictures and write up are absolutely necessary here.
This month, show your savvy at communicating--or not communicating--through your crafting.
Option 1 - Craft something to secure a means of communication, whether it’s a cozy for your laptop or socks to protect your feet when you go to visit a friend.
Option 2 - Craft something that could serve as a shibboleth, that is, something that proves membership in a particular group (ex: the dark mark that Voldemort’s followers wore; in the Muggle world, a Red Hat for the Red Hat society; something in house colors for Hogwarts; etc.)
Option 3 - Craft something with a hidden message. You’ll have to work hard to sell this one.
Astronomy
Our focus in class this month will be an oft-overlooked part of our solar system: the asteroid belt. We can’t see it, but we know it’s there. In addition to the spherical sun and planets, our solar system contains a multitude of lumpy, bumpy, and unruly celestial objects. Let’s turn our attention to these lesser-sung bodies in the sky.
Option 1: Craft something irregular. Try your hand at free-form crochet or knitting. Spin art yarn. Dye a yarn inspired by the asteroid belt. Imitate organic forms - break away from clean lines and symmetry and let your imagination free.
Option 2: Make a belt.
Care of Magical Creatures - Griffin
Option 1: make treasure
Option 2: make something to keep treasure safe
Option 3: make something that’s a combination.
Charms
Option 1: Craft something that represents a link between two people or locations. This could be purely symbolic, such as crafting something that reminds you of a loved one, or it could be crafting something related to a method by which people can stay in touch. The Muggles have a device called a “fellytone” that allows them to speak to each other over long distances, so a “fellytone” cozy would be acceptable.
Option 2: Craft something that will help you, or someone you know, be remembered after you are gone. The key to this option is the story: whose memory are you preserving? How does the object you crafted succeed in Permanently Sticking them to the walls of history?
DADA
Option 1: Craft a project inspired by Mongolia or Japan, where Kappas are most commonly found.
Option 2: Craft a project that you might take to the beach on your own future vacations.”
Option 3: Craft an object that represents one of your past vacations. We realize that some of you may not really be the beach type.”
History of Magic
This month please demonstrate an understanding of the wild beauty that represents the Wizarding sense of style across the ages, full of color and flair. We’ll be celebrating the stylish impulses that tell us to go ahead and match our stripes with our paisleys!
Option 1: Search history for someone you consider a Wizarding style icon, and craft something to represent his or her sense of style. You may study any Witch, Wizard, or other member of the magical community from any point in history, and feel free concentrate your studies on personal fashions or home décor.
Option 2: Embrace your own inner Wizarding flair for fashion! Using the playful nature of Wizard fashions throughout history as your starting point, craft something that could start a new Wizarding trend today. What new fashion would you like to see displayed in the shop windows of Diagon Ally? No need to be shy here -- let your magical flamboyance shine and sell us your creations!
Muggle Studies
Option 1: Visit a muggle art museum and find a piece of art that inspires you. It may be a painting, sculpture, photograph or any other form of art found in a muggle art museum. Knit, crochet, weave, spin or dye something inspired by your chosen work of art, and explain how your homework reflects the art that inspired you. Different students are moved by different things, so your homework might reflect the shape, colors, or subject matter of the artwork, or even the emotions you felt whilst studying it. You may even wish to recreate the actual work of art (crochet Venus de Milo anyone?).
Option 2: Alternatively, you may choose to be an active participant in the muggle art world, by engaging in your own “yarnstorming” project. Please explain why you chose the subject of your “storm” and provide photographic evidence of your work. The object created by the yarnstorming must be knit, crocheted or woven; simply wrapping an object with yarn is not acceptable for this assignment. Unfortunately, we will be unable to accept yarn spun or dyed for a future yarnstorming event. (But feel free to use yarn spun or dyed for another class to knit, crochet, or weave your art!)
The item(s) must also be displayed in a public place (open area or, if indoors, in a place open to the public) OR in a privately-owned outdoor space (like the license plate of a car, for example). Yarnstorming within the confines of one’s own home is called “decorating”, and is not acceptable for this assignment. You must be prepared to leave your item displayed for all to see, and it should be large enough to be seen by the public from at least a couple of feet away (so no yarnstorming in your own backyard).
Potions - Draught of Peace
Option 1: Adding ingredients carefully: Craft an item that uses 2 or more individual colours in a balanced way. Or spin and dye 2 or more individual colours to create a pleasing yarn.
Examples: fair isle, intarsia, double knitting, etc. For spinning, ply different colours together
Option 2: Stirring the Potion: Craft an item with 7 colour changes.
Examples: striping between 2 or more colours, dyeing a self striping yarn, complex intarsia or fair isle, for spinners spinning a yarn that will stripe or navajo plying to produce stripiness
Option 3: Simmering the Potion: Dyers create an overdyed yarn, either overdyeing a commercially dyed yarn or one you have dyed yourself. Before and after pictures and process pictures and write up are absolutely necessary here.