Ancient Runes Homework I
DUE DATE: Unknown

Pick your favorite rune from the First Ætt and explain to the teacher why this is your favorite rune.

Herbology Homework I
DUE DATE: August 6th

1. Choose one muggle plant and one magical plant and imagine a hybrid. What would it look like? Why did you choose those plants? (5pts)
2. If you could create a hybrid out of any plants (yes, you can choose more than two), what would you create to represent your house? (2pts)
3. How important is it to name a plant? In the course of hybridization, many plants go unnamed, and unknown. Do you think this is fair, or at times, safe? (5pts)
4. What are advantages and disadvantages to creating hybrids? What is a common problem with hybrids? What's a common use of creating them? (5pts)
Extra Credit: Draw or create an image of one of the hybrids you were asked to create above. Label parts of the plant, and what it does, if anything. OOC: You can use Photoshop, Paint MS or any other graphics program, or you can have scan a hand-drawn picture. (3pts)

Arithmancy Homework I
DUE DATE: August 9th

1. What is Arithmancy? (2pts)
2. Describe the four elements of the core and what each reveals about ourselves. (6pts)
3. Demonstrate that you know how to find your core numbers and list them below. (6pts)
4. Describe what the capstone, cornerstone and first vowel are and what they reveal about ourselves. (2pts)
5. What are your capstone, cornerstone and first vowel and what do they reveal about you? (2pts)
6. What is an individual studying or having had studied Arithmancy known as? (2pts)

Divination Homework I
DUE DATE: August 10th

1. What are the six steps to tea-leaf reading taught in the first class? (6pts)
2. What are the meanings of the following five symbols? Bat, Hat, Sun, Comet, Arrow. (2pts each)
3. What were the symbols you found in your own tea-leaf reading, and what did they mean? OOC: If you did not attend the lesson, don’t worry. Just make up some symbols. (4pts)