Harry Potter at Bafta Awards 2011

JK Rowling

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The Harry Potter films will receive the outstanding British contribution to cinema prize at this year's Bafta awards.

Potter author JK Rowling and producer David Heyman will receive the award on behalf of the franchise during the ceremony at London’s Royal Opera House on Sunday 13 February 2011.

JK Rowling's Harry Potter novels were on the the top 100 books of all time and of the last decade. 

JK Rowling e o prémio Hans Christian Andersen

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JK Rowling winned the new Danish award, the "Hans Christian Andersen literature prize", in 2010. His work was of that rare order that seems to transcend authorship," and praising Andersen's "indestructible, eternal characters."

Starting in 2001 with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the film franchise from Warner Bros. Pictures has defined a decade of British filmmaking. As well as continually introducing exciting new performers to a global audience, the films have built a reputation for showcasing the wealth of British stage and screen acting talent.

As well as notching up seven Oscar nominations, the series has so far garnered a total of 28 BAFTA nominations: five nominations at the British Academy Children’s Awards and 23 at the Film Awards, including this year’s two nominations in the Special Visual Effects and Make Up & Hair categories.

 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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An eighth and final instalment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, will be released in July 2011.

Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint

Premiere London

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Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, 21, said he had "loved every minute of making these films".

"To me the real heroes are the crew and the huge team of craftsmen that have made all eight of them possible," he went on.

"This award is a testament to their incredible work."

Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint

Premiere London

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Radcliffe's sentiments were echoed by co-star Emma Watson, who said it was "a huge honour".

"Thank you so much BAFTA for this amazing award," added Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley opposite Radcliffe's Harry and Watson's Hermione Granger.

To date, the Potter movies have received seven Oscar nominations and 28 Bafta nominations.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 has one Oscar nomination: Art Direction. 

Jonathan Ross will host this year's Bafta Film Awards, to be broadcast on BBC One.

Education:


K Rowling won the first Danish award, the "Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize" in 2010. Watch here

Her work of that rare order that seems to transcend authorship," and praising Andersen's "indestructible, eternal characters." 

Benedicte Page/ The Guardian


Yes, it's true! Harry Potter's saga brought new generations of readers for schools. And that is important! 


Fans go to Harry Potter movies because they have read all the Harry Potter novels, the most time in school.


JK Rowling and Hans Christian Andersen could be a good motivation for reading in Literature & Languages curriculum. 


The two authors were in Portugal. J.k: Rowling lived there teaching English and Hans Christian Andersen loved Portugal.


Hans Christian Andersen in 1886. There is a wonderful virtual exhibition at the National Library of Portugal about Hans Christian Andersen's venue to Portugal. He wrote a book about his impressions and informed that Skruptudsen the children's story was written in Portugal


JK Rowling lived in Porto for some years, teaching English. It was there that she began a story that might become a book about a boy who is sent off to wizard school. All during the time she spent in Portugal, Rowling took notes on this story and added bits and pieces to the life of her main character, Harry Potter.


Activities for students:

• Watching the video and the virtual exhibition: debating the importance of the two authors in children's literature.

• In groups, recalling information about the two authors' venue to Portugal, exploring Google Earth and Google Maps.

• Choosing one novel of each author and making reading contests in school.

G-Souto

11.02.2011
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References for Teachers:


Harry Potter franchise to get outstanding Bafta awards
http://www.bbc.co.uk


2011 Film Awards Nominees
http://www.bafta.org

National Library of Portugal, Hans Christian Anderser (1805-1075)
http://purl.pt

Encyclopedia of Worl Biograpy, JK Rowling
http://www.notablebiographies.com

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Schools : Reading Jules Verne, the father of science-fiction : resources

Jules Verne

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“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.” 

Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

Google Doodle Jules Verne 183rd birthday

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Today, 8 February, Google celebrates, with a interactive Doodle, the 183rd birthday of one of the most important science-fiction writer, Jules Verne, the French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Verne was born on this day, 1828.

Jules Verne wrote fantastic novels as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), among many others. 

• Google Doodle:

Google is celebrating the occasion with an interactive Doodle. The Doodle was inspired on the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. 

It's beautifully designed and it also has a little secret! It lets your students navigate down 20,000 leagues under the sea. All they have to do is drag a lever with your mouse, tap your arrow keys, or - if they are viewing the Google page on an iPad, iPhone - tilt the screen.

They can explore the ocean from Jules Verne doodle in full view and HD.

Jules Verne
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Some information:

Jules Gabriel Verne was born on February 8, 1828 in Nantes, in France. His novels (basically science-fiction) were all about his vision, as he wrote stories on space and underwater travel, even before spaceships and submarines existed. He is the pioneer of science-fiction genre. 

Jules Verne & science-fiction

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Jules Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on Surrealism. 

He has often been labeled a writer of genre science-fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted.

• Themes:

Verne wrote about: space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. 

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne, 1870

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He is best known for novels such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

Verne's stories, written for adolescents as well as adults, caught the enterprising spirit of the 19th century, its uncritical fascination about scientific progress and inventions. 

His works were often written in the form of a travel book, which took the readers on a voyage to the moon in From the Earth to the Moon (1865) or to another direction as in A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1874). 

Many of Verne's ideas have been hailed as prophetic. 

A Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jules Verne

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• Here & Now:

The pioneering ways of travel and exploration which he wrote so much about are now common-place for us, such as exploration of the moon, the north and south poles, and the use of hot air balloons for long-distance voyages.

Jules Verne illustration, surrounded by his inventions

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• Inventions & Characters:

In his time, Verne was a true inventor and visionary; the names of his inventions and characters such as Captain Nemo, Phileas Fogg, and the submarine Nautilus have entered, and remain, a part of our popular culture.

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Eric Brevic, 2008

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Among his best-known books are Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and the classical adventure story Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

Around the Wold in 80 Days

 Frank Coraci,2004

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Other books:

He wrote numerous short stories, essays, plays, and poems, alongside 54 extremely popular novels that only show a glimpse of the extent of his imagination.

For over 40 years Verne published at least one book per year on a wide range subjects.  Verne's oeuvre include 65 novels, some twenty short stories and essays, thirty plays, some geographical works, and also opera librettos. 

Verne's works have inspired a number of film makers. Some of his books have been made into movies and now into games.

He remains the most translated novelist in the world, according to UNESCO statistics.

Verne is often hailed in level with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells, as the "Father of Science Fiction."

Education :

• Reading: Choose with your students a novel to read in the classroom;

• Writing: Let your students explore Jules Verne's home website (English, French, Spanish, Italian) on their smartphones or iPads to prepare an  essay about the author;

• Drawing: Students could create a comic strip from a novel they read or not. Let them be free to choose at the school library or at home which book;

• Web: Explore the possibility of asking your students to build a web blog in an exchange project with a French school;

• Web 2.0: Find school partners on Facebook Twitter or Instragram;

• Multimedia:  There are some interesting tools as:

1) Cartonise Jules Verne - the biographical essay done by students, or the novel that  you read in the classroom, could be cartonised by an easy way to create cartonized versions of images and drawings (students and teacher)

2) Create a video with Animoto (students and educator)

And now, let your students watch the creative 3D video animation below, inspired on Jules Verne's work

El sueño de Julio Verne

"Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth." 

Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

G-Souto

8.02.2011

update 08.02.2023

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