Harry Potter: Minister wants to resurrect Latin in schools
The News Review:
- Harry Potter: Minister wants to resurrect Latin in schools
- Columbia native bares all with Harry Potter on Broadway
- Kellan Lutz On The Book Rock Of ‘Twilight’ And ‘Harry Potter’
- Are you in a Twilight trance?
Harry Potter: Minister wants to resurrect Latin in schools
Scotland on Sunday, UK
Education Secretary Fiona Hyslop last night announced her support for the “dead” language to be resuscitated in classrooms in a move which would see children as young as nine studying the language and culture of ancient Rome. Hyslop, who herself sADVERTISEMENTtudied classics at school, believes teaching Latin will give youngsters a better understanding of their own language as well as making it easier to learn French and Spanish. And with JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books making Latin more popular than ever with children, as the boy wizard casts his spells in the ancient language, there is an appetite for learning among pupils. Teachers and politicians last night welcomed the move but warned Hyslop would have to find extra funds to help colleges train classics teachers and councils employ them. Although Latin remains an optional subject on the school curriculum in Scotland, its popularity has dwindled over the past decade. This summer, the numbers of pupils sitting Higher Latin fell to just 826, with only a quarter of candidates coming from state schools. South of the border Latin is already enjoying a renaissance.
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Columbia native bares all with Harry Potter on Broadway
The State, SC
If they weren’t all so positive, the comments would seem perfunctory, buried as they are near the end of reviews of “Equus. ”But the reviewers have a lot to say about the show’s lead actor, and that’s what takes up most of the space. The actor’s name is Daniel Radcliffe — the star of the “Harry Potter” movies. “People aren’t coming to the show to see me,” Camp said by phone between an afternoon and evening performance Wednesday. “The pressure’s off a little.
Kellan Lutz On The Book Rock Of ‘Twilight’ And ‘Harry Potter’
MTV.com
?I think there?s a lot of potential with all the fans that are out there,? he said. ?How much they care about it, how passionate they are, it?s really cool to see. ”“I think with Harry Potter, people tested the ability to make these groups,” said Lutz, “and so now it?s no longer a new frontier. It really gives the Twilighters a way of doing it, rather than just risking failure. But they can have faith, because it?s been done before. My hat?s off to them.
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Are you in a Twilight trance?
Manila Standard Today, Philippines
The big thing about the movie is that Summit is a small studio compared to Sony and Universal Summit financed this film for a measly $37 million, a paltry sum compared to the other movies like Harry Potter, but because of successful viral marketing and its cult following they have a franchise on their hands which will make them one of the big boys to be reckoned with. In spite of the fact that it is targeted to a female audience the Twillight fans and so-called ”Twilight moms” will be enough for a successful box-office opening. And how lucky can former Harry Potter star Robert Pattinson be? Harry Potter actually moved its opening date to next year which opened up the perfect spot for the Twilight movie. And good news to all you fans out there the movie is scheduled to open first here in the Philippines, which according to my sources in Hollywood is to deter piracy. Yes I am a bit obsessed with the book I read all four books in three days and it brought me back to a time in my youth where everything was new-from falling in love, getting your heart broken and moving out of your home for the first time. A lot of women I know got into the book as well and my friend and I call it the Twilight trance-a trancelike state of being after you read the book basically you end up, as the Pinoy vernacular would say, making “muni-muni”. Everyone I know who’s read it has gotten into a trance.