Hello,

From late November to December 14th, us PLP‘ers have been working on a few projects. The one I’m going to be talking about is our fall Blue Sky project. The theme this fall was Harry Potter. Now, I don’t know much about Harry Potter but I knew just enough to do this project.

Now, to start everything off, we needed to come up with inquiry questions. They are basically questions on a topic that you could build a project on.

And my question was: Can I redesign Azkaban without the Dementors and still hold its prisoners?

And to answer that, I made a model, and an information board. My model was made of three main sections. The tower, the base and the larger scale version of one of the cells. The tower was tall, and triangular, with a square base covered in rocky-looking felt.

The next piece is the individual prison cell. The notch in the side of the tower shows where the cell would go. The cell has a bed, and a bookshelf.

The next piece is the base of the of the tower. It is a rocky island with raging water surrounding it.

The water took a while to put together, it’s made of long strips of paper and a lot of hot glue.

The final tower looked like this:

Now, the other part of my project that isn’t the model, is my poster board. It explains the difference between my model, and the original Azkaban.

And now, the final part. How I hold the prisoners. I use two spells:

The Cursed Barrier, the Locking Spell, and the Anti-Apparition Jinx. The last one is on both designs, I didn’t change anything there.

 

The reason I wanted to do this is because the prison is really dark, and sort of inhumane because of what the Dementors do to the prisoners.

And the last thing I will talk about is the actual Exhibiton where we show off our projects. My group was Forbidden Forest themed, and so we decorated our area, the back of the library, as a forest. There were green streamers, fake trees and plants, and even two small real tree things. The whole thing was very fun, and it went very smoothly. The only negative thing I have to say is that since my group was way in the back of the library, we didn’t get as many visitors as the front, or anywhere else.

Overall, I enjoyed the project and the exhibition.