Assignment Three
Instructions
Assignment 3 is due by midnight, April 30th.
Send your answers to
in a regular email.
(Do not send as or with an attachment. Anything received with
an attachment will be deleted.)
Include, at the top of the answer email, your HOL name
and House. Put in the Subject Line:
"Wandmaking - Lesson 3 - (your HOL name)".
True / False - 2 points each
1. Your first wand needs to be very elaborate and fancy.
True or False?
2. "Constant Vigilance" is good advice whenever one is using tools
of any sort.
True or False?
3. You can make a very nice wand out of a dowel bought at a store.
True or False?
4. To get wood for a wand, all you have to do is see a good tree and
go break off a branch.
True or False?
5. You must always remove the bark from a branch to make a wand.
True or False?
6. Sanding the wood, of either dowel, chop stick or branch, will
make it smoother.
True or False?
7. The more enhancements your wand has, the better a wizard you will be.
True or False?
8. If you are going to glue something on your wand, use LOTS
of glue in order to make it stick better.
True or False?
9. Staffs are basically just larger and longer wands.
True or False?
10. You can make your own wand, without having to buy it from
anywhere else.
True or False?
Essay Questions - 5 points each
1. Tell me about your wand. Describe the wood, the length, the colors of your finished wand, and any enhancements that you added to it. Then, using the lessons, tell me the symbolism of the wood, the length, any colours used, and any extra items that you might have added to it. If you added materials that I don't have listed in the symbolism, use your imagination and tell me what they might mean. (Minimum of 200 words)
2. Tell me about your wand's relationship to you. Did you end up with a wand that complements your strengths or enhances parts of you that need a little strengthening? Did you choose the wood or did the wood choose you? Why do you say that? Tell me the story of you and your wand. (Minimum of 200 words)
Extra Credit - 30 points total
1. My first wand was a chop stick. What kinds of wood are chop sticks made
of? Why might a chop stick make a good wand? What would cause a chop
stick to make a poor wand? Include the symbology of different kinds of
wood in your answer.
(minimum of 200 words) -- (10 points)
2. Why use wands? Write a possible story of the first use of a wand, and
the way the history of wand-using developed.
(minimum of 300 words) -- (10 points)
3. Two other wands have chosen me. One is apple wood, 14 1/2 inches long.
The other is rosemary, 9 1/2 inches long. I prefer to hold the apple wand
in my right hand and prefer to hold the rosemary wand in my left hand.
Tell me what symbolic differences there are between my original cherry
wood wand and my new wands; both in length and in material.
(minimum of 200 words) -- (10 points)
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