Welcome
to Disney Lit Weeks! My name is Professor Hart and I am your Magical Literature professor and Head of the Professor Studies Track. You can think of the next two weeks as a very big "plug" for Magical Literature in Year 4, as much of the analytical "close reading" and scholarly research wil…
Very excited to hand over the next lesson to Professor Cattercorn, who has not only kindly agreed to write on The Little Mermaid and share her intimate knowledge of mermaids with you, but has also willingly and patiently allowed me to contribute my own thoughts to the lesson (though you won't be ab…
Today I have the pleasure of introducing your new Co-Professor for Defense Against the Dark Arts, Jericho Penrose. Initially, Professor Silvers was set to write this lesson (and we have kept some of her original work) but she then had to leave for her honeymoon (Congratulations, again!), so I took …
Welcome back to today's lesson on Aladdin (1992)! One of the earliest versions of the Aladdin story, Aladdin ou la lampe merveilleuse (1906)
is a trick film which relies on live action and animation techniques to
create the illusion of genies appearing as if by magic. The "all powerful genie" (…
Thank you so much to Professor Maddox, your History of Magic (https://www.facebook.com/HiHHistoryOfMagic) professor, for volunteering to help me with today's lesson on Mulan. I'm very grateful to have worked on this lesson as Mulan was a particular favourite of mine growing up. In fact, I explicitl…
I would like to welcome Professor Batyaeva, our Potions Professor, who will be teaching you about Disney's Princess and the Frog today. Professor Batyaeva has written a lesson for this week as well as next week, so be sure to thank her when you see her. In today's lesson, you'll also be hearing fro…
On October 2, 2011, Disney's Rapunzel was officially celebrated as the tenth Disney Princess and welcomed into the Disney Princess royal court. Disney's choice to entitle the movie Tangled instead of Rapunzel speaks to the "cultural confusion" of today's society, as our cultural standards have unde…
The moment has finally come! The last lesson for Week 1. If you want to start gearing up for Week 2, be sure to enroll here: http://www.hogwartsishere.com/courses/DLIT-2/We'll be ending off our week with the extremely popular Frozen. I am truly indebted to Professor Rose Honeysett who came to my re…
We hope you all enjoyed Disney Lit Week! Be sure to join us for Disney Lit Week 2! Please take the survey attached to this lesson! Best,EH
