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Joanne Rowling, better known as J.K. Rowling, was born in 1965 in England. She studied French and classics at the University of Exeter. After graduating, she moved to London and worked various jobs while beginning work on her first Harry Potter book. The Harry Potter series became a global phenomenon after the release of the first book in 1997. Since then, she has published other works both related to Harry Potter and for adults. She also founded Pottermore to expand the Wizarding World digitally.

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Joanne Rowling, better known as J.K. Rowling, was born in 1965 in England. She studied French and classics at the University of Exeter. After graduating, she moved to London and worked various jobs while beginning work on her first Harry Potter book. The Harry Potter series became a global phenomenon after the release of the first book in 1997. Since then, she has published other works both related to Harry Potter and for adults. She also founded Pottermore to expand the Wizarding World digitally.

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INTERNATIONAL HOPE SCHOOL BANGLADESH

2021 – 2022 ACADEMIC YEAR – FIRST TERM


PRIMARY SECTION – ENGLISH LITERATURE – WORKSHEET 1

Name: Sana Dilruba Mostofa IHSB Number: 3572


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Grade: 4 ( B ) Date: 28/9/2021

Who is J.K. Rowling?


Use the link given below to research the author of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J.K.
Rowling?

Link: https://www.jkrowling.com/about/

Before Researching

1. What do you already know about J.K. Rowling?

I things I know already about J.K. Rowling are Joanne Rowling was born on 31st July 1965 at
Yate General Hospital near Bristol, and grew up in Gloucestershire in England and in Chepstow,
Gwent, in south-east Wales. Jo wanted to be a writer from an early age. She wrote her first book
at the age of six – a story about a rabbit, called ‘Rabbit’. At just eleven, she wrote her first novel
– about seven cursed diamonds and the people who owned them.

Jo studied at Exeter University, where she read widely outside her French and Classics syllabus
at the University library. Her knowledge of Classics would one day come in handy for creating
the spells in the Harry Potter series, some of which are based on Latin.

2. What do you want to find out about J.K. Rowling?

I want to know about are is what she lives the most about writing stories, where she studied and
how she had the idea of writing Harry potter.

After Researching
3. What have you learned from your research?

Joanne Rowling was born on 31st July 1965 at Yate General Hospital near Bristol, and grew up in
Gloucestershire in England and in Chepstow, Gwent, in south-east Wales.

Her father, Peter, was an aircraft engineer at the Rolls Royce factory in Bristol and her mother, Anne, was
a science technician in the Chemistry department at Wyedean Comprehensive, where Jo herself went to
school. Anne was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when Jo was a teenager and died in 1990, before the
Harry Potter books were published. Jo also has a younger sister, Di.

The young Jo grew up surrounded by books. “I lived for books,’’ she has said. “I was your basic
common-or-garden bookworm, complete with freckles and National Health spectacles.”

Her course included a year in Paris. “I lived in Paris for a year as a student,” Jo tweeted after the 2015
terrorist attacks there. “It’s one of my favourite places on earth.”

After her degree, she moved to London and worked in a series of jobs, including one as a researcher at
Amnesty International. “There in my little office I read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of
totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of
what was happening to them.” She said later. “My small participation in that process was one of the most
humbling and inspiring experiences of my life.”

In 2001, the film adaptation of the first book was released by Warner Bros., and was followed by six
more book adaptations, concluding with the release of the eighth film, Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows Part 2, in 2011. J.K. Rowling has also written two small companion volumes, which appear as
the titles of Harry’s school books within the novels. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find
Them and Quidditch Through the Ages were published in March 2001 in aid of Comic Relief. In
December 2008, a third companion volume, The Tales of Beedle the Bard was published in aid of her
international children’s charity, Lumos.

In 2012, J.K. Rowling’s digital company Pottermore was launched, which became Wizarding World
Digital in 2019. Pottermore Publishing continues to be the global digital publisher of Harry Potter,
Fantastic Beasts and the Wizarding World.

Also in 2012, J.K. Rowling published her first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy (Little, Brown),
which has now been translated into 44 languages and was adapted for TV by the BBC in 2015.

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