Harry Potter & the Sorceress Stone:

Skills Packet-Reading notes you need to know:

Root words: the most basic part of a word

Prefix: is a part of a word that is attached to the beginning of a root word

Suffix: is a part of a word that is attached to the end of a root word

Synonyms: a word that has the same meaning as another word. Example: talk, speak, and jabber.

Antonyms: a word that means the opposite of another word.

Homographs: words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.

Context clues: clues from the sentence you are reading & it helps you find the meaning of the word or phrase.

Content specific words: words or phrases that relate to a certain subject.

Fact: a statement that you can prove.

Opinion: a statement of what someone believes to be true about something.

Compare/contrast: understanding how something is like or unlike something we already know.

Cause/effect:

Cause: a person, thing or an event that makes something happen.

Effect: the result of the thing that happens.

Problem: something that needs to be solved.

Solution: the answer to a problem.

Headings: a title or a section.

Main idea: what a text is mostly about.

Inferences: when the author doesn’t have all the information & it’s left to the reader’s imagination to fill in the blanks.

Conclusions: forming an idea based upon the information the text provides.

Types of Test:

a. Narrative: writing with characters & events. A beginning, middle & end.b. Poetic: writing that is in groups called stanzas.c. Informational: intended to inform or explain.d. Persuasive: intended to persuade someone to do or believe something.

Title: name of book

Author: person who wrote the book.

Table of Contents: lists each chapter in order that appears in the book.

Index: lists different subjects & where to find them in the book.

Author’s point of view:

1. First person: the narrator using “I” & is part of the action.2. Third person: narrator is not part of the action & uses “he, she, it or they”.

Main character: the character the writer focused the most on.

Setting: when & where a story happens

Plot: sequence of the story:

1. Conflict: main problem2. Rising action: events leading up to the climax3. Climax: most exciting point or turning point of the story4. Resolution: where the conflict is resolved

Theme: Central idea or meaning of the story-lesson or morals learned.

Similes: are direct comparisons of one thing to another. Using the words” like or as”, “my grandmothers hands were as wrinkled as an old paper bag”

Metaphor: the writer expresses one thing by comparing it with another thing. “Reina is a troll in the morning”.

Personification: a writer will give an animal or object human qualities.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

Name: ______________________

Genre: ______________________

Christin M. Thomas

Diocese of Greensburg

6th grade

17 Gilmore St., Uniontown Pa 15401

724-439-3764

Content Packet

Chapter 1: The Boy Who Lived

1. (R6.B.1.1.1) Where does the story take place? ______________________________

2. (R6.A.1.2.2) Dudley was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the walls. “Little tyke. “Chortled Mr. Dursley as he left the house.

a. Using the context clues, what does the word chortled mean? _______________________________________________________________________________________________

3. (R6.B.2.1.1) Mr. Dursley blinked and stared at the cat. It stared back. As Mr. Dursley drove around the corner and up the road, he watched the cat in his mirror. It was now reading the sign that said Privet Drive-no, looking at the sign; cats couldn’t read maps or signs.

What best describes personification in the above passage? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

HagridAlbusDumbledore

Using the Venn Diagram below, compare the differences of Albus Dumbledore and Hagrid then put the similarity that they share in the middle of the circles.

4. (R6.B.3.3.1)

5. (R6.A.1.3.1) What conclusion can you draw from the following passage:

i. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not know he would be woken in a few hours’ time by Mrs. Dursley’s scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would spend the next few weeks being pinched by his cousin Dudley…

ii.

Chapter 2: The Vanishing Glass

1. ( R6.B.2.1.2) Read the following sentence from pg 20,

“The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning.”

Draw below what you think the lightning bolt looked like:

2. (R6.A.1.3.1)Dudley’s mouth fell open in horror, but Harry’s heart gave a leap. Every year on Dudley’s birthday, his parents took him and a friend out for the day, to adventure parks, hamburger restaurants or the movies. Every year, Harry was left behind with Mrs. Figg, a mad old lady who lived two streets away. Harry hated it there. The whole house

smelled of cabbage and Mrs. Figg made him look at photographs of all the cats she’d ever owned.

From the passage above, make a prediction about what might happen next: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. (R6.B.3.3.1) Dudley came waddling toward them as fast as he could. “Out of the way, you,” he said, punching Harry in the ribs. Caught by surprise, Harry fell hard on the concrete floor. What came next happened so fast no one saw how it happened-one second, Piers and Dudley were leaning right up close to the glass, the next, they had leapt back with howls of horror.

From the passage above, what is the cause, and what is the effect?

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. (R6. A1.2.2) “Piers and Dudley could only gibber.” Write a synonym that is the same meaning as Gibber :________________________________________________________

Chapter Three: The Letters From No One

1. (R6.B.3.3.1) Piers, Dennis, Malcolm, and Gordon were all big and stupid, but as Dudley was the biggest and stupidest of the lot, he was the leader. The rest of them were all quite happy to join in Dudley’s favorite sport: Harry Hunting. This is why Harry spent as much time as possible out of the house, wandering around and thinking about the end of the holidays, where he could see a tiny ray of hope.

From the passage above, list the following:

Problem: ____________________

__________________________

Solution: ____________________

___________________________

2. (R6.B.1.1.1) After reading pages 34-35 in chapter three, what is the climax of these two pages? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. (R6.B.1.1.1) After reading pages 38-40, what is the problem that arises for Harry? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. (R6.B.1.1.1) After reading pages 41-45, what is the solution to the problem that was stated above? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Chapter 4:The Keeper of the Keys

1. (R6.A.2.1.2) His face was almost completely hidden by a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild, tangled beard, but you could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all his hair.

a. As used in the passage above, what does the word shaggy mean?

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b. (R6.B.2.1.2)Which part of the above passage includes a simile? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. (R6.A.2.1.2) “STOP! I FORBID YOU!” yelled Uncle Vernon in panic.

As used in the passage, what does FORBID mean?

a. allow

b. not allow

c. yell

d. happy

3. (R6.B.2.2.1) But he had finally gone too far. Hagrid seized his umbrella and whirled it over his head, “NEVER-“ he thundered, “-INSULT-ALBUS-DUMBLEDORE-IN-FRONT-OF-ME!”

This passage is written from which point of view?

a. first person

b. third person

c. peasant

d. wife

Chapter 5: Diagon Alley

1. (R6.A.2.2.1) “It was a dream,” he told himself firmly. “I dreamed a giant called Hagrid came to tell me I was going to a school for wizards. When I open my eyes I’ll be at home in my cupboard.”

a. As used in the passage, what word is used as a root word and has a suffix added to it?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. (R6.A.2.6.1, R6.B.1.1.1) The title of this chapter is Diagon Alley. What does this let you infer about the setting? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. (R6.A.2.1.2) The brick he had touched quivered-it wriggled- in the middle, a small hole appeared- it grew wider and wider…..

As used in the passage above, which of the following is a synonym of quivered? ___________________________________

4. (R6.A.2.6.1.) Enter stranger, but take heed

Of what awaits the sin of greed,

For those who take, but do not earn,

Must pay most dearly in their turn.

So if you seek beneath our floors

A treasure that was never yours,

Thief, you have been warned, beware

Of finding more than treasure there.

This passage is an example of what kind of writing?

a. narrative

b. poetic

c. informational

d. persuasive

Harry Potter & the Sorcers Stone Assesment Test: 

Quiz

 1. How does Harry first learn that he is a wizard?  

(A) The Dursleys tell him when he is eight

(B) Dudley accidentally lets it slip

(C) Hagrid has to track him down to tell him

(D) He reads about it in the Daily Prophet

 2. Where does Harry live in the Dursley's home?  

(A) With Dudley

(B) In the guest house

(C) In Mr. and Mrs. Dursley's room

(D) In a cupboard under the stairs

 3. Who decides where the children will be housed at Hogwarts?  

(A) Albus Dumbledore

(B) The Sorting Hat

(C) The Sorting Broom

(D) Each child decides for him- or herself

 4. How do the children get rid of Hagrid's dragon?  

(A) They poison it

1 C

2 D

3 B

(B) They bring it up to the top of the tallest tower and push it off

(C) They bring it up to the top of the tallest tower and give it to Ron's older brother's friends

(D) They bring it up to the top of the tallest tower and give it to Voldemort

 5. What is significant about the day of the Gringotts break-in?  

(A) It occurs on Harry's birthday

(B) Harry is at Gringotts earlier the same day

(C) Hagrid empties vault seven hundred and thirteen

(D) All of the above

 6. Who is Fluffy?  

(A) Hagrid's dragon

(B) Harry's owl

(C) Hagrid's three-headed dog

(D) Dumbledore's pet snake

 7. Which teacher is trying to steal the Sorcerer's Stone?  

(A) Snape

(B) Dumbledore

(C) Quirrell

(D) McGonagall

 8. To whom does the Sorcerer's Stone belong?  

(A) Harry

(B) Hagrid

(C) Voldemort

(D) Nicolas Flamel

 9. What position does Harry play in Quidditch?  

(A) Quaffle

(B) Sweeper

4 C

5 D

6 C

7 C

8 D

(C) Seeker

(D) Chaser

 

10. There are many problems that Harry faces up until chapter 5, recall three of these problems that Harry faces and list them on the lines below.

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9 C