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
     Worksheet: Claims Example
     1.1 Why Harry Potter?
     1.2 Summary Of
     1.3 Close Reading Of
     Short Paper 1.4: Major Paper Conference Memo
          Sequence One: Claims Worksheet
     1.5 MAJOR PAPER: Critical Approaches to Harry Potter

Sequence Two:

     Sequence Two: Writing Center Visit
     2.1 Close Reading Of
     2.2 The Mirror of Erised
     2.3 Annotated Works Cited
     Short Paper 2.4: Major Paper Conference Memo
          Sequence Two: Claims Worksheet
     2.5 MAJOR PAPER: Critical Approaches to Twilight

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.

     ENGL131 Student Info Sheet & Release Form

     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

     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 through the university’s online course reserves (http://eres.lib.washington.edu), directly from the web, or in Acts of Inquiry, the course reader. 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.)

Doyle, Sady. "Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs: The Unwarranted Backlash Against Fans of the World's Most Popular Vampire-Romance Series." The American Prospect. 20.9 (November 2009): 29-32.      (Available via e-reserve.)

Flanagan, Caitlin. "What Girls Want: A Series of Vampire Novels Illuminates the Complexities of Female Adolescent Desire." The Atlantic. December 2008. 7 Aug. 2010. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/12/what-girls-want/7161/.      (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.)

Heilman, Elizabeth E. "Introduction." Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter. New York: Routledge, 2009. 1-9.      (Available via e-reserve.)

Loewen, James W. "Handicapped by History: The Process of Hero-Making." Acts of Inquiry. Eds. Allison Gross, Annie Dwyer, David Holmberg, and Anis Bawarshi. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010. 534-550.

Meyer, Stephenie. Breaking Dawn. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008.

Meyer, Stephenie. Eclipse. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007.

Nylund, David. "Reading Harry Potter: Popular Culture, Queer Theory, and the Fashioning of Youth Identity." Journal of Systemic Therapies. 26.2 (2007): 13-24.      (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.)

Pratt, Mary Louise. "Arts of the Contact Zone." Acts of Inquiry. Eds. Allison Gross, Annie Dwyer, David Holmberg, and Anis Bawarshi. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010. 589-602.

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 Prisoner of Azkaban. New York: Scholastic, 1999.

Seifert, Christine. "Bite Me! (Or Don't)." Bitch Magazine. 2008. 7 Aug. 2010. http://bitchmagazine.org/article/bite-me-or-dont.      (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.)

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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