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taylweaverSomething I didn't take into account while teaching students how to give examples in persuasive essays: taking examples from literature often means taking examples from Harry Potter.
Today, while writing an essay about whether or not people are gullible, more than one student used Harry Potter. One of them used Halfblood Prince.
Which was bad. Because I saw a couple of names and a couple of words in her outline...
The good news is, since the topic was gullibility, I don't know whether the event I though I saw actually happened, or was only believed to have happened. Still. it is disappointing after I tried so hard to stay away from any hint of spoilers.
Which meant I did something very unprofessional. I skipped that paragraph of her essay. (I let her know that I did so.)
Good thing they weren't getting graded on this one...
New rule in my classroom: No using HBP for examples.
Of course, I am not sure it will reflect well on them in the eyes of the essay readers if they use Harry Potter to begin with...
Ah well, off to spend another hour reading over the second stack of essays...
Today, while writing an essay about whether or not people are gullible, more than one student used Harry Potter. One of them used Halfblood Prince.
Which was bad. Because I saw a couple of names and a couple of words in her outline...
The good news is, since the topic was gullibility, I don't know whether the event I though I saw actually happened, or was only believed to have happened. Still. it is disappointing after I tried so hard to stay away from any hint of spoilers.
Which meant I did something very unprofessional. I skipped that paragraph of her essay. (I let her know that I did so.)
Good thing they weren't getting graded on this one...
New rule in my classroom: No using HBP for examples.
Of course, I am not sure it will reflect well on them in the eyes of the essay readers if they use Harry Potter to begin with...
Ah well, off to spend another hour reading over the second stack of essays...
