Red Cedar Neighborhood
Hogwarts Houses
Education in Literature
Wizarding Education
RCAH
100
John Van Alstine is the artist of this statue located in the courtyard of Mason-Abbot Snyder-Phillips.
What is the Funambulist
100
The Slytherin common room can be found underneath this.
What is the lake
100
This is the wizarding boarding school that arrives to the Triwizard tournament through the lake.
What is Durmstrang
100
Students at Hogwarts must take a minimum of this many electives in their third year at Hogwarts, choosing from Arithmancy, Muggle Studies, Divination, Study of Ancient Runes, and Care of Magical Creatures.
What is two
100
Students start to take elective classes in their ____ year at Hogwarts, the same year that RCAH students begin their pathway courses
What is third
200
The buildings of Red Cedar (Mason, Abbot, Snyder, and Phillips) are all designed in this traditional collegiate style.
What is Gothic
200
Voldemort did not turn any objects belonging to this house founder into a horcrux
Who is Godric Gryffindor
200
Caulfield attends an all boys boarding schools in this coming-of-age novel.
What is the Catcher in the Rye
200
. First-year students at Hogwarts must take flying lessons and seven core courses: Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, History of Magic, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Herbology, and ___________.
What is Astronomy
200
Whereas the young Dumbledore believed in the ethical philosophy of promoting the “greater good,” Steve Esquith (the Dumbledore of the RCAH) prefers to favor the “______ good”
What is public or common
300
Before Snyder-Phillips became co-ed, this building housed females and locked out the males from the other building.
What is Phillips (hall)
300
Infamous wizard Gilderoy Lockhart attended Hogwarts as a member of this house.
What is Ravenclaw
300
"In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines ..." is the starting phrase for all books in this children’s series about girls who attend a Catholic boarding school in Paris.
What is Madeline
300
Poor, Outstanding, Troll, Acceptable, Exceeds Expectations, and ______ are possible grades on the O.W.L.s
What is Dreadful
300
The Oxbridge "_______-_______" model makes the RCAH very similar to Hogwarts in the sense that students take classes in their dorm.
What is living-learning
400
Rumor has it that a young man killed his girlfriend, wrote “IM SORRY” on the wall in her blood, and then hanged himself in this room in Abbot.
What is the Oak Room
400
Whereas the other houses have verbal passwords or riddles, members of Hufflepuff must do this to enter the common room.
What is rhythmic tapping in the pattern of Helga Hufflepuff
400
This Gayle Carson Levine character must obey everything her teachers at boarding school tell her to do, though she loves to put up a fight to her curse.
Who is Ella
400
Umbridge was in charge of this student group whose aim was to support the Ministry of Magic.
What is the Inquisitorial Squad
400
World history, art and culture, engaged learning, and _____ are the four cornerstones on which the college was built.
What is ethics
500
This building in the Red Cedar neighborhood was the name of the third dormitory built on campus, which later became the Music Building.
What is Abbot (hall).
500
The school motto is “Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus,” which means this in English.
What is never tickle a sleeping dragon
500
J.K. Rowling says she based many Hogwarts professors off teachers in real life. A teacher herself, J.K. Rowling taught English as a Second Language in this country, where she met her ex-husband.
What is Portugal
500
___________ and Tofty were the examiners for Harry’s O.W.L.s
Who is Marchbanks
500
These are the four components of the RCAH Civic Engagement model.
What are insight, practice, action, and passion