Welcome
To Potions Class.
I am Headmistress Morgan.
I will be teaching Potions this term. Thank you for applying to my class and well lets get started.
-Miss Morgan.
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Lesson 1
INTRODUCTIONS AND TOOLS OF THE TRADE
Welcome to your first Potions lesson. We will be learning throughout this lesson the many different items needed to assist us in making a Potion. These tools will not just include a cauldron and scales. We will be looking at many wonderful, helpful and absolutely necessary materials that can lead us to a successfully made Potion.
First let's define what a Potion is. Muggles have what they call a dictionary that tells them the meaning of words. I thought it would be fun to see what their tiny minds had to say about their definition, of what a Potion is. According to some fellow by the name of Webster this is what they believe, potion - n. - a drink, as of medicine or poison.
Well, I am sure Potion Masters like Horace Slughorn and Severus Snape would disagree. Potions are much more than a simple medicine or poison. Potion making can be complicated, complex, tricky, strange, dangerous and disastrous. Following directions exactly, can, in most cases, produce excellent and safe results. Using the correct equipment is the first step.
The goals of this class will be to guide you, with each lesson, in the right direction in procuring a properly made Potion. So, have your quill and parchment ready because we are now on to the tools of the trade.
We know from Harry Potter's letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that he was required to purchase a cauldron. This cauldron had to be made of pewter. We also learned that cauldrons came in different sizes as Harry was to purchase a size 2 "pewter" cauldron. For sale in the Diagon Alley shop were self-stirring cauldrons and collapsible cauldrons. Cauldrons could be made of iron too. Percy Weasley let Fred and George know that having a cauldron with an improper thickness was a danger to all wizards and witches.
Brass Scales were on the list. Every student would soon learn how important the weighing of each potion ingredient needed to be to create the perfect results. Daily cleaning and polishing of these brass scales had to be part of the student's education.
Glass phials were mentioned in the letter as well. The students, once they had attended a few Potion classes, were most likely introduced to glass boiling flasks, beakers, beaker lids, test tubes, cylinders, funnels, burets, glass stirring rods and transfer pipets. Many of these glass items would be heat resistant, capable of holding acids or dangerous liquids and resistant to breakage.
A Potions class would never be without measuring spoons, measuring cups, wooden cutting boards, wooden spoons, sharp knives, silver knives, both large and small mortar and pestles, wooden test tube racks, small hour glasses, to keep track of time, different sizes of strainers and small and large glass bottles with stoppers.
Upon entering a Potions classroom, students would expect to see long, hard, wooden work benches capable of holding many heavy cauldrons, ingredients and their tools. Wooden stools to sit on too, of course. A blackboard for the professor to write instructions would be at the front of the room. Note books, quills and ink bottles to write down each potions ingredients and instructions on how to create it. You would have your very own properly working wand with you in order to clean up any accident spills.
Lastly fire, as most all potions are either brewed, streamed, simmered or boiled.
Well, I think I have covered most everything a young wizarding Potion student would encounter in a Potions Class. I hope you have enjoyed the first lesson.
So now on to the Assignment.
Assignment 1
Due November 4, 2010, 12:00am.
(CLICK HERE)To Send Homework. Approx: 2 Messages.
SHORT ANSWERS - 2 POINTS EACH
***FULL SENTENCES - PLEASE***
1.What type of cauldron is required for a first year pupil, at Hogwarts?
2.Who are the two Potion Masters mentioned in Lesson 1?
3.Each Potion student would be required to bring their very own what to class?
4.Almost all glass items used in potion making must be what?
5.In the lesson how is making a Potion described?
TRUE AND FALSE - 2 POINTS EACH
If your answer is FALSE - please WRITE the correct answer.
1.Using any equipment can produce excellent and safe potion results.
2.Long wooden benches are used to sit on, when working on potions.
3.Cauldrons with an improper thickness are a danger to all wizards.
4.Only one size strainer is used in a potion class.
5.Fire is needed to brew, steam, simmer and boil most potions.
SCRAMBLED WORDS - 2 POINTS EACH - WORTH = 10 POINTS
1.ALGLNE DIOAY
2.EMRMDEIS
3.RTHICFATWC
4.PMIEQUENT
5.LCLAEBILPOS
Grades
&& Points Earned
Term Projct.
Yay.!!
(CLICK HERE)To Send Homework. Approx: 2 Messages.
YOUR FAVORITE HARRY POTTER BOOKS POTION
WORTH 30 POINTS
What I would like you to do is write me, IN AT LEAST 300 words, what "Your Favorite Harry Potter Books Potion" is.
Now I am looking for DETAILS from you about your potion. The name, kind of potion it is (good/bad), what it is supposed to do, if made correctly, ingredients, the color (if there are stages indicate the color of each stage), how long it takes to make it, what bad side effects happen if it is made incorrectly and any another wonderful reasons why you like this special potion.
One warning!!!! PLEASE no copying and pasting from the internet or, of course, from my own lessons. This needs to be your own work. Please cite all sources used!!
Have fun!!!