Homework
The due date for this assignment/extra credit is OCTOBER 31st, 11:59PM HOL time. Please send your assignments to [email protected] with the subject line "HW2 - [Your HOL name]" for homework and "EC2 - [Your HOL Name]" for the extra credit, or if you send it in together "HW/EC2 - [Your HOL Name]". So if I were sending mine in, they would say "HW2 - Kim Alting" and "EC2 - Kim Alting" in the subject line. Please also include your name, house, and HOL ID at the top of your e-mail. I need this info to give you your hard-earned points, so double check that it's there! If you have any questions or need help with anything, please don't hesitate to send me a HOL message (my ID is ki1010). I am always happy to help!
Emails with attachment won't be graded.
TRUE OR FALSE (10 points)
Indicate whether the following statements are true or false. If a statement is false, please correct it.
1. Moly has a white stem and black petals.
2. Only the roots of a Horklump can be used for potion brewing.
3. Mistletoe berries are used in Amortentia.
4. Valerian has both magical and non-magical uses.
5. Aconite leaves are extremely toxic.
6. Asphodel is a part of the lily family.
7. Bezoars are stones found at the bottom of large lakes.
8. Porcupine quills are always crushed before they are added to potions.
9. It is recommended that you dry out Billywig Stings before handling them for potion making.
10. Horned slugs can only be found on Quidditch pitches, where they spend their days dreaming of being Seekers.
THE SLEEPY STUDENT (20 points, 2 points each)
The same student who was late last time showed up to Potions class on time today... but they looked completely exhausted. They come to you after class looking very stressed, and you understand why as soon as you see their notes - they're a complete mess! Totally unreadable!
Help the sleepy student clean up their notes and figure out what they meant to write by unscrambling the words from the lesson in the list below. The ones with stars beside them are TWO words.
1. Ttyidan
2. Oslhdeap
3. Ravaenil
4. Ohmrsulpk
5. Worowodm
6. Azsrboe
7. Npilpcqruoiusel *
8. Lfnnopshiisies *
9. Irwfaiyngs *
10. Oonmskdoh
Extra Credit
For your extra credit, you may choose to complete any assortment of the following options to add up to a maximum of 30 points. Some options will allow you to do just a portion of them - for example, since each "Heal or No Heal" item is worth 2 points, you could post in the class discussion for 10 EC points and then do just 10 of the "Heal or No Heal" items for the other 20 EC points.
CLASS DISCUSSION (10 - 30 points)
A large amount of the ingredients we learned about today were useful for healing potions or had healing properties. For 10 points, I want you to make a post in the Class Forum about why you think this is. Some questions to get you thinking (though you don't have to answer these and are encouraged to come up with theories outside of these questions!) - was it just an accident that past potion-makers discovered lots and lots of healing ingredients? Or were they looking for them specifically? Do you think textbook writers, editors, or political figures may have suppressed writings about more harmful substances to discourage their uses? Your posts should be about 150 words minimum for the full 10 points. If you make a second and/or third post of 150+ words responding to someone else's theory/opinion (you can agree, disagree, or add other ideas to theirs but give your reasoning and keep it respectful!), you can earn yourself an additional 10 points per post! Or, if you find that you have a lot to say, you can gain 20 points for a 300+ word post - whether that is your initial opinion or your response doesn't matter, but please note that this is the maximum points I will award for a single post - it is a discussion, after all! (If any of this is unclear, feel free to HOL message me or ask about it in the Questions thread in the class forum first!)
PRACTICAL (30 points)
You can look up the Magical Drafts and Potions textbook in the HOL Library HERE. Find the Babbling Beverage recipe and follow it carefully to brew your potion. Tell me what the HOL textbook says the ingredients are, and do your best to describe the steps to making the potion in your own words (it's tricky, I know. Don't be too worried about similarities, just try not to copy and paste.) What is the Babbling Beverage? How did your potion turn out? Did you miss a step, add too much of an ingredient, overcook it? If so, do you think that improved or ruined your potion? Who did you try the potion out on? What is it supposed to look like? How did yours look? Briefly tell me the story of your potion-brewing experience! (Minimum 250 words)
If you're not very talkative, you're welcome to send me a picture (make a graphic) of how your potion (Forgetfulness or Babbling, and please tell me which one yours is!) turned out instead. You're also free to create an image, drawing, etc. of any of the ingredients we talked about in today's lesson or re-design the cover of one of the required textbooks (Magical Drafts and Potions or One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi - if you did one of these last time, you can't do the same one this time!) Basically, you're free to make an image of just about anything as long as it's obviously related to the lesson.
THE SLEEPY STUDENT - PUZZLE TIME! (30 points)
There is a test coming up in Potions class, and luckily the sleepy student wrote the date down correctly, as well as the ingredients they needed to review... but then one of the other students in the class tried their Forgetfulness Potion on the sleepy student. The sleepy student became the forgetful student, and they forgot why they had a piece of paper with a date and some random words on it in their pocket. Thinking the paper useless, the forgetful student ripped up the paper with the important test date and study notes on it! Please help the sleepy, forgetful student put their paper back together. Upload a screenshot of the completed puzzle to a picture hosting site (such as Photobucket or tinypic) and send me the direct link.
You can find the pieces of the paper HERE.
HEAL OR NO HEAL (30 points, 2 points each)
As I mentioned before, there were lots of ingredients in today's lesson that could be used for healing. Can you keep all the ingredients straight? The last thing you want to do is to shove something harmful into some poor soul's mouth in an attempt to cure them... categorize each of the following ingredients as either a "heal" or a "no heal" - so an ingredient with healing properties or with no healing properties. Use the lesson and the textbook "One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi" from the HOL library (HERE) to help you.
IMPORTANT HINT: Pay attention to the potions the ingredients are added to! For example, the Wiggenweld Potion is classified as a healing potion, so anything that is an ingredient in that potion can automatically be considered a healing ingredient! And some ingredients are tricky and can be either a healer or a non-healer, depending on how they are prepared - so you can say they are "both"! Cures for poisons are also considered under the term "healing".
1. Lionfish Spines
2. Bezoars
3. Dittany
4. Horklump juice
5. Valerian
6. Wolfsbane
7. Moly
8. Ginger
9. Amaranthus
10. Comfrey
11. Grass
12. Heliotrope
13. Mint
14. Olive
15. Mugwort
CLASS DISCUSSION (10 - 30 points)
A large amount of the ingredients we learned about today were useful for healing potions or had healing properties. For 10 points, I want you to make a post in the Class Forum about why you think this is. Some questions to get you thinking (though you don't have to answer these and are encouraged to come up with theories outside of these questions!) - was it just an accident that past potion-makers discovered lots and lots of healing ingredients? Or were they looking for them specifically? Do you think textbook writers, editors, or political figures may have suppressed writings about more harmful substances to discourage their uses? Your posts should be about 150 words minimum for the full 10 points. If you make a second and/or third post of 150+ words responding to someone else's theory/opinion (you can agree, disagree, or add other ideas to theirs but give your reasoning and keep it respectful!), you can earn yourself an additional 10 points per post! Or, if you find that you have a lot to say, you can gain 20 points for a 300+ word post - whether that is your initial opinion or your response doesn't matter, but please note that this is the maximum points I will award for a single post - it is a discussion, after all! (If any of this is unclear, feel free to HOL message me or ask about it in the Questions thread in the class forum first!)
PRACTICAL (30 points)
You can look up the Magical Drafts and Potions textbook in the HOL Library HERE. Find the Babbling Beverage recipe and follow it carefully to brew your potion. Tell me what the HOL textbook says the ingredients are, and do your best to describe the steps to making the potion in your own words (it's tricky, I know. Don't be too worried about similarities, just try not to copy and paste.) What is the Babbling Beverage? How did your potion turn out? Did you miss a step, add too much of an ingredient, overcook it? If so, do you think that improved or ruined your potion? Who did you try the potion out on? What is it supposed to look like? How did yours look? Briefly tell me the story of your potion-brewing experience! (Minimum 250 words)
If you're not very talkative, you're welcome to send me a picture (make a graphic) of how your potion (Forgetfulness or Babbling, and please tell me which one yours is!) turned out instead. You're also free to create an image, drawing, etc. of any of the ingredients we talked about in today's lesson or re-design the cover of one of the required textbooks (Magical Drafts and Potions or One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi - if you did one of these last time, you can't do the same one this time!) Basically, you're free to make an image of just about anything as long as it's obviously related to the lesson.
THE SLEEPY STUDENT - PUZZLE TIME! (30 points)
There is a test coming up in Potions class, and luckily the sleepy student wrote the date down correctly, as well as the ingredients they needed to review... but then one of the other students in the class tried their Forgetfulness Potion on the sleepy student. The sleepy student became the forgetful student, and they forgot why they had a piece of paper with a date and some random words on it in their pocket. Thinking the paper useless, the forgetful student ripped up the paper with the important test date and study notes on it! Please help the sleepy, forgetful student put their paper back together. Upload a screenshot of the completed puzzle to a picture hosting site (such as Photobucket or tinypic) and send me the direct link.
You can find the pieces of the paper HERE.
HEAL OR NO HEAL (30 points, 2 points each)
As I mentioned before, there were lots of ingredients in today's lesson that could be used for healing. Can you keep all the ingredients straight? The last thing you want to do is to shove something harmful into some poor soul's mouth in an attempt to cure them... categorize each of the following ingredients as either a "heal" or a "no heal" - so an ingredient with healing properties or with no healing properties. Use the lesson and the textbook "One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi" from the HOL library (HERE) to help you.
IMPORTANT HINT: Pay attention to the potions the ingredients are added to! For example, the Wiggenweld Potion is classified as a healing potion, so anything that is an ingredient in that potion can automatically be considered a healing ingredient! And some ingredients are tricky and can be either a healer or a non-healer, depending on how they are prepared - so you can say they are "both"! Cures for poisons are also considered under the term "healing".
1. Lionfish Spines
2. Bezoars
3. Dittany
4. Horklump juice
5. Valerian
6. Wolfsbane
7. Moly
8. Ginger
9. Amaranthus
10. Comfrey
11. Grass
12. Heliotrope
13. Mint
14. Olive
15. Mugwort