July in review : the most read posts of the month

Rio2016

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Rio Olympic Games 2016 start tomorrow, the 5 August. One day before the opening ceremony. More than 11,000 athletes and support team members are already staying in huge complex. Party atmosphere sweeps Olympic Village.

With one day before the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, a party atmosphere is sweeping through the Olympic Village.

The majority of the 208 nations are now represented at the village, a complex of 31 buildings that contain 3,604 apartments. At peak time it will be home to more than 17,000 guests.

Mascots Jobim & Tom

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Get ready for the intense excitement of 42 Olympic sport disciplines, 306 events over the course of 19 days of competition will yield 136 medals for women, 161 for men and nine mixed medals.

We are all excited waiting for tomorrow. Don't you? Jobim and Tom, the mascots Rio2016 are very happy, see?

Ok. So it's time to end the introduction of the rundown of the most read posts in July.

Here are the most popular posts of the last month:

Educação & Línguas : Vamos ler Harry Potter and The Cursed Child?

Education: The 4th July & Eyes on June : resources & apps 

Éducation : Difficulté de parler #Nice aux enfants? 

Education . Go to the theater : Harry Potter and The Cursed Child 

Science Education: Exploring the Big Dipper 

Education & disability : Francesca Jones, the power of a dream

Summer break is on top. Schools are closed in the most part of European countries. Soon starts in the United States of America, Australia and some other countries.

Well, I will be back to posting some ideas and educational resources. My summer break? Very soon!

G-Souto 

04.08.2016

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Education : Go to the theater : Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

J.K. Rowling

https://www.pottermore.com/

Tomorrow! Get ready for the new play and book: Harry Potter And The Cursed Child. 

Harry Potter And The Cursed Child in print and digital tomorrow 30 July 2016 at world bookshops. Only two days and one night. Oh ! So good, another big event to 'potterheads'! 

Saturday 30 July will see the official opening night of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two. The public preview of the play took place last 26 July. Fans react to first performances!

Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, 
play at Palace Theater, London

University fans

credits:   Tim Jamieson/ NYTimes

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"It is out of this world. It's Magic and it's a Hit."

Times

Last Tuesday, the 26 July, Harry Potter lucky fans have seen the play and they are in love. Fans went out very touched and excited. The reviews are amazing. And media reviews are amazing as well. 

"It's a proper theatrical blockbuster. Not just at the box office, but onstage as well: a captivating story given a spectacular staging and — Rowling’s specialty — a big, big heart. Twenty years ago, Harry Potter turned a generation onto reading. “The Cursed Child” could do the same for theater."

Matt Trueman, Variety

Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, play

credits: Manuel Harnan

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The eighth installment of the Harry Potter series was presented on Tuesday evening at the Palace Theater. It was the play, not the book. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” The Potter saga continues with unabated interest: fans dressed in Hogwarts costumes, curiosity about the fate of long-beloved characters and the allure of magic.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is one play presented in two parts, which are intended to be seen in order on the same day (matinee and evening) or on two consecutive evenings.

Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, play

Jamie Parker/ Harry Potter

credits: : Manuel Harlan

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The critcs are very good.  Dramatist Jack Thorne has written a pair of instalments, each two and a half hours long, based on several major characters in JK Rowling’s seven novels, which became eight movies. While still about the superstar wizard, the plays introduce multiple new figures and plot lines wrote Michael Billington.

Words can’t describe how delighted I was to see Albus’ and Scorpius’ relationship gently developing from friendship to something more, without the narrative making a plot point or a problem about their sexualities, making it incidental rather than focusing on it. The stage came to life when the two characters were on it together. Finally, finally I could see kids like me at Hogwarts. By the end of the first part I was in tears.

Anna, London, harrypotterhead

And tomorrow, 30 July, at midnight following those first, opening night performances, the Special Rehearsal Edition script will be available to buy around the world, in print at the bookshops and digitally on Pottermore.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

J.K. Rowling

https://www.pottermore.com/

But let's talk about the book. The Special Rehearsal Edition of the script will be available for a limited time, and will give readers the earliest opportunity to read the eighth story – just after the play has opened at London’s Palace Theatre. 

In this edition, readers will have access to the script used by the cast and creative team during rehearsals and previews.

During the preview period, in front of a live audience, the script will be fine-tuned by the creative team. It’s a chance to make tweaks outside the rehearsal room and based on the reactions of a real audience.

A later, Definitive Edition of the script is set for release in early 2017. This final and complete edition will replace the Special Rehearsal Edition in bookshops, both in print and digitally.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play

http://www.harrypottertheplay.com/

The Definitive Edition will contain the perfected, definitive script with final stage directions and annotations, as seen on opening night and beyond. This edition will also include extra content, such as writing from the play’s creative team.

The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. 

The play will receive its world premiere in London’s West End tomorrow 30th July 2016. 

"It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places."

Education: Books & Theater

This is the big buzz of the summer break at schools. Potterheads of the world will not miss this event, the book at bookshops or Pottermore and those who are lucky enough the play at Palace Theater in London.

Going at bookshop, it promotes the love of printed books and enhance reading skills of the youngest potterheaders' don't you think? And if they aren't native English language, they will empower the foreign language.

J.K. Rowling and the 'Harry Potter mania' brought enormous number of new readers into Languages curriculum. Teachers understood the importance of reading Harry Potter books into the curricula.

Rowling managed to get a large swath of young people reading books at a time when it looked as though they weren't going to be reading anything.

Kids and adults (the first generation of potterheads) don't loose this opportunity to read another Harry Potter book.

Harry Potter And The Cursed Child

The four houses of the Hogwarts wizarding school mass on stage

credits: Manuel Harnen

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But J.K. Rowling promotes now the love of theater.  Twenty years ago, (1977) Harry Potter turned a generation onto reading. “The Cursed Child” could do the same for theater.

Theatre in education will encourage effective learning at school. It calls for careful consideration of the audience's age and requirements in order to engage them and get the message across.

It complements school curriculum and illustrate the dynamic relationship between the performing arts and literature, history, science and world cultures. 

So potterheads are all so excited. They go to the theater and will be at a bookshop near on 30 July by midnight. Every bookshop will open to receive the new book and Harry Potter fans.

Some extra activities are prepared to captivate the new potterheads. It will be a special night this summer break.

G-Souto

21.07.2016

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References:

video credits: The Guardian | Pottermore

Educação & Línguas : Vamos ler Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ?

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

J.K. Rowling

https://www.pottermore.com/

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child -Parts I & II será lançado na noite de 30 para 31 de Julho na Livaria Lello, Porto, tal como acontecerá em diferentes livrarias pelo mundo inteiro. 

O livro estará também disponível em versão digital em Potttermore, a partir da mesma hora (G.T.)

A obra será apresentada à meia-noite de 30 para 31, dia em que se celebra o aniversário da criadora da saga, J.K. Rowling.  

A Livraria Lello abrirá nessa noite para receber todos os potterheads (fãs de Harry Potter). O lançamento do livro impresso (versão original, língua inglesa) estará disponível para todos os fãs Harry Potter que aí acorrerem.

Noite dos Livros de Harry Potter

Livraria Lello

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A Livraria Lello que já proporcionara uma noite diferente aos potterhads ao aderir à Harry Potter Book Night, no passado mês de Fevereiro 2016, evento que teve lugar um pouco por todo o mundo.

O lançamento de Harry Potter and the Cursed Child será precedido de uma festa, a partir das 22.00, com "personagens da saga, poções mágicas, bebidas, fotografias com as personagens e muitas outras surpresas a animar os novos e velhos potterheads que estiverem na fila." 

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, 

part I & II

https://www.pottermore.com/

Este oitavo livro escrito como peça de teatro, é da autoria de Jack Thorne, baseado na história de J.K. Rowling e John Tiffany. A peça Harry Potter and the Cursed Child vai estrear em Londres no Palace Theatre a 30 de Julho, isto é na mesma noite.

A história já foi apresentada numa peça de teatro nos palcos de West End, em Londres, cujo guião foi agora transposto para o papel em versão livro. J.K. Rowling pediu aos fãs para não revelarem os 'segredos' de modo a proporcionar grande surpresa na estreia oficial.

E a ante-estreia teve lugar no passado dia 25 Julho que registou um número sensacional de harrypotterheads.

As críticas são excelentes. E há fãs que afirmam ter chorado durante a peça como se pode ler no The Guardian.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

https://www.imdb.com/

"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts I & II conta a história de Harry 19 anos depois de Deathly Hallows, o sétimo livro da saga, e mostra a luta do seu filho mais novo Albus Severus Potter contra o legado que carrega. Harry trabalha no Ministério da Magia e é pai de três filhos."

Harry Potter and The Cursed Child

créditos: Manuel Harden/ Variety

https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/

Com sete livros publicados entre 1997 e 2007, J.K. Rowling estreia o oitavo em 2016. A saga Harry Potter vendeu mais de 450 milhões de exemplares em todo o mundo, em mais de 200 países. A saga está traduzida em 74 línguas. Os sete livros deram origem a oito grandes produções cinematográficas e este último a uma peça de teatro.

👉Educação:

"Tragam o melhor figurino Harry Potter para a festa na livraria que inspirou J.K.R. a escrever uma das melhores sagas de ficção de sempre!"

Livraria Lello, Facebook

Bom, eu acho que nenhum potterhead perderá este evento. E para os pais e educadores será uma original actividade de férias, gratuita, para acompanhar os filhos até à Lello.

O evento criado pela Livraria Lello, na página do Facebook, conta já com mais de oito mil subscritores, onde se contam muitos estrangeiros. O dia do lançamento, como já sabemos, não foi escolhido ao acaso, visto que 31 de Julho é a data de aniversário da autora de Harry Potter, Joanne Kathleen Rowling. 

Harry Potter Book Night/ Livraria Lello

créditos: Pedro Correia/ Global Images

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"O evento está a ser viral e estamos com imensos subscritores de todo o país bem como também do estrangeiro"

Livraria Lello via Mariana Peres, Lusa

Guia Para Uma Boa Experiência

https://www.facebook.com/LivrariaLello/

A Livraria Lello acaba de publicar um Guia do evento para que todos sigam as actividades da melhor maneira.

https://www.fnac.pt/

E chegou a vez da edição em Língua Portuguesa. Harry Potter e a Criança Amaldiçoada foi posto à venda ontem às 24:00 horas, dia 23 Setembro nas diferentes livrarias portuguesas.

Harry Potter fãs à espera das 24:00 horas

créditos: Filipe Amorim/ Global Images

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Centenas de fãs acorreram, um pouco por todo o país, à noite mágica do lançamento da versão portuguesa de Harry Potter e a criança amaldiçoada. Várias livrarias associaram-se ao momento abrindo fora de horas com programas especiais de animação que os leitores da saga facilmente associaram à mesma. Desta vez, foi o caso da Livraria Ler Devagar, em Lisboa.

Nove anos depois de ter saído o último volume das aventuras de Harry Potter, a versão portuguesa de um novo livro, Harry Potter e a criança amaldiçoada chegou ontem à meia noite, às livrarias. 

Beatriz Dimas, 21 anos, potterhead

créditos: Reinaldo Rodrigues/ Global Imagens

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O momento foi vivido entusiasticamente pelos muitos potterheads que não quiseram perder a oportunidade de puderem comprar o livro acabado de sair. 

"Hei-de ser velhinha e ainda terei esperança de que me chegue uma carta para ingressar em Hogwarts", confessava Inês Mata, uma das muitas potterheads que ontem acorreu à comprar a versão portuguesa do novo livro. "Já li em inglês mas quero ter também em português".

Harry Potter e A Criança Amaldiçoada

nas livrarias portuguesas

créditos: Filipe Amorim/ Global Images

https://static.globalnoticias.pt/

Os pais e educadores vão aproveitar estes fabulosos eventos para incentivar os filhos à leitura, quer na versão original em Língua Inglesa (Língua Estrangeira I), quer agora a versão em Língua Portuguesa. Eis uma excelente motivação para convencer os adolescentes mais avessos à leitura. 

Para todos será a melhor actividade para desenvolver as competências da leituras em duas áreas curriculares.

Aqui fica a sugestão. Suponho que pouco potterheads perderam estes eventos que se tornaram virais.

Potterheads portugueses vestidos a rigor

créditos: Paulo Spranger/ Global Images

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A excitação foi enorme. Potterheads de todas as idades, apoiados pelos pais e educadores (os mais pequenos) prepararam a melhor ideia ou 'personagem' para se apresentarem, excitadíssimos, nas livrarias nas noites de 30 para 31 Julho e agora na noite de 23 para 24 Setembro 2016.

Fez em 24 Julho 2026, 20 anos deste acontecimento táo importante para os potterheads da época.

G-Souto

21.07.2016

Actualizado: 24.09.2026

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