Assignments

Listed below are the assignment sheets, worksheets, exercises, and peer review sheets that will be assigned or used during the quarter. Each student will recieve a copy of each as a handout in class during the appropriate week. If you miss a sheet, feel free to print out a new copy. Feel free to look ahead at the assignments to come, but keep in mind that sheets may be updated and are subject to change over the quarter.

Formatting Samples:

     Sample Formatting of a Short Paper

     Sample Formatting of a Major Paper

     Sample Formatting of an Annotated Bibliography

Sequence One:

     Sequence One: Writing Center Visit

     Readings Presentations & Critical Questions

     Research Scavenger Hunt

     Worksheet: Claims Example

     Sequence One: Claims Worksheet

     Critical Response #1: Harry Potter Autobiography

     Critical Response #2: Close Reading Of

     Critical Response #3: "Open" Topic

     Critical Response #4: Why Harry Potter?

     Critical Response #5: Sequence One: Major Paper Conference Memo

Sequence Two:

     Sequence Two: Writing Center Visit

     Sequence Two: Claims Worksheet

     Critical Response #6: "Open" Topic

     Critical Response #7: The Mirror of Erised

     Critical Response #8: "Open" Topic

     Critical Response #9: Sequence Two: Major Paper Conference Memo

     Sequence Two: Annotated Bibliography

     MAJOR PAPER: Critical Approaches to Harry Potter?

Portfolio Sequence:

     Portfolio 3.1: Best Ideas, Best Work, Best Practices

     Portfolio 3.2: Selecting Your Essays

     Portfolio 3.3: Cover Letter

Download the PDF version of the course policies and syllabus.

Information Sheets

The following are handouts, informational sheets, and readings that will be assigned or used over the course of the quarter. Each student will recieve a copy of each as a handout in class during the appropriate week. If you miss a sheet, feel free to print out a new copy.

     ENGL111 Student Info Sheet & Release Form

     ENGL111 Computer Integrated Classroom LAN Primer

     Peer Review & Commenting in the LAN

     Ed's Top Ten Ways to Survive University

     Ed's Top Ten Rules of Writing

     Time Management Tips

     Top Ten Traps of Studying

     Claims, Claims, Claims

     Toulmin's Ideas About Argument

     MLA Parenthetical Documentation & Bibliography

     Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

     Introductions & Conclusions

     Sports Illustrated Introductions

     Revision Strategies

Readings

All of the short readings for class are available via the Course Reader (for sale at Ave Copy, 4141 Univ. Way @ 42nd) or through the university’s online course reserves (http://eres.lib.washington.edu), or directly from the web. Consult the course syllabus for the week each reading will be covered in class. The following is a full bibliographical list of the class readings:

Anatol, Giselle Liza. “Introduction.” Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003: ix-xxv.      (Available via e-reserve.)

Blume, Judy. "Is Harry Potter Evil?" Judy Blume on the Web. 22 Oct. 1999. 21 Apr. 2008. http://www.judyblume.com/censorship/potter.php.

Cockrell, Amanda. "Harry Potter and the Witch Hunters: A Social Context for the Attacks on Harry Potter." The Journal of American Culture. 29:1 (Mar. 2006): 24-30.      (Available via e-reserve.)

Gallardo-C., Ximena and C. Jason Smith. “Cinderfella: J.K. Rowlings Wily Web of Gender.” Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003: 191-205.      (Available via e-reserve.)

Lister, Martin and Liz Wells. “Seeing Beyond Belief: Cultural Studies as an Approach to Analysing the Visual.” Reading Contexts. Ed. Gail Stygall. New York: Thomson Wadsworth, 2005: 431-479.      (Available via e-reserve.)

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. New York: Scholastic, 1999.

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. New York: Scholastic, 2000.

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. New York: Scholastic, 2003.

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. New York: Scholastic, 1997.

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. New York: Scholastic, 1999.

Orwell, George. “Such, Such Were the Joys.” A Collection of Essays. New York: Harvest Book, Harcourt, Inc., 1946: 1-47.      (Available via e-reserve.)

Ostry, Elaine. “Accepting Mudbloods: The Ambivalent Social Vision of J.K. Rowling’s Fairy Tales.” Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003: 89-101.      (Available via e-reserve.)

Smith, Karen Manners. “Harry Potter’s Schooldays: J.K. Rowling and the British Boarding School Novel.” Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003: 69-87.      (Available via e-reserve.)

Stygall, Gail. “Argument in College Writing.” Reading Contexts. New York: Thomson Wadsworth, 2005: 67-102.      (Available via e-reserve.)

Stygall, Gail. “Rhetorical Reading: Reading for Writing.” Reading Contexts. New York: Thomson Wadsworth, 2005: 21-31.      (Available via e-reserve.)

Wallace, David L. and Tison Pugh. "Playing with Critical Theory in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series." English Journal. 96:3 (Jan. 2007): 97-100.      (Available via e-reserve.)

Download the PDF version of the course policies and syllabus.

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