FOURTH AND LAST PART OF GROUP ASSIGMENT
1. Identify one major claim in your chosen article and list it here.describe this idea in your own words. [One or two sentences should be sufficient.]
2. Apply this idea to a particular scene in Harry Potter. Pick a passage from one of the novels or a scene from one of the films, and then explain how the idea that you explained in section #1 helps to illuminate our understanding of this passage. [This section should be a few sentences long–say, something like half of a paragraph.]
3. Describe an original idea of your own that in some way expands on the ideas of your chosen article. This can either be an extension of one of the article’s ideas that adds to its analysis in some way; a revision of one of the article’s ideas that fine-tunes and/or corrects it; or a critique that points out some shortcoming in the article’s analysis and argues for a contrasting way of interpreting Rowling’s novels. [Two or three sentences should be sufficient.]
4. Apply your original idea to a scene in Harry Potter. Pick a passage from one of the novels or a scene from one of the films, and then explain how the idea that you explained in section #3 helps to illuminate our understanding of this passage. [This section should be a few sentences long–say, something like half of a paragraph.]
