This document summarizes a class discussion about character traits in Harry Potter houses and preparing for Paper 3. It discusses defining character traits, analyzing traits in Harry Potter characters, and finding sources. Students chose a trait, defined it, and gave examples. They had a vocab quiz and freewrite. Homework includes reading, finding sources on their trait, and drafting a definition.

1. EWRT 211
DAY 9
Personality and Paper 3Check-in with your House-mates:
1. How was your weekend?
2. How did Paper 2 submission go on
Saturday? How might you plan
differently next next time?
3. ReviewVocab 1-9. We’ll have a quiz
today!

2. Business/Agenda
■ Welcome Dr. Karen Chow!
■ Paper submission went (more-or-
less) smoothly.Thank you for that!
■ Thank you for the bitmoji!You can
still send me some:
https://www.bitmoji.com/
■ House Points: everyone who is here
at this minute (including ghosts!)
receives 9 points.
■ House Point bonus today: 10 bonus
points to your House if every House
member present speaks during class
today.
■ Agenda:
– Character traits
– Hogwarts houses and traits
– Paper #3
– Library skills
– Vocab quiz
– Freewrite/Discussion
– HW forWednesday

3. Character traits
■ What is a “character trait”?
– What do these words mean?
■ Why do we talk about character
traits?
■ Who has character traits?
■ What are some examples of
character traits?

4. Character traits andYOU!
■ Character traits:
– Character: personality, mental
attributes that make up a person.
– Trait: characteristic that belongs
to a person.
– Attitudes and behavior that make
up someone’s personality.
– Good and bad.
– Even characters in books (like
Harry Potter!) have character
traits.
– Examples: kind, jealous, loyal.
■ Now I want you to think about your own
personality or character and write down (on
scrap paper):
■ 1. one character trait that you think describes
you.
■ 2. one or two brief examples of why you think
this trait describes you.
■ 3. when is it good to have this trait?When is it
bad to have this trait?

5. Put it on the board!
■ Write your trait on the board.
(Just the trait.)
■ What traits seem common?What
traits seem unusual?
■ What kinds of traits do we see here?
■ Volunteers: which was your trait and
how do you think it describes you?
■ When is this trait good?When is it
less good?

6. How does the Sorting Hat decide who goes into which Hogwarts House? Is it random?
How did I decide who goes into each House in our class?

7. Gryffindor
Characteristics:
• Brave
• Loyal
• Adventurous
• Polite
Hufflepuff
Characteristics:
• Hard working
• Patient
• Loyal
• Fair
Ravenclaw
Characteristics:
• Intelligent
• Creative
• Clever
• Knowledgeable
Slytherin
Characteristics:
• Ambitious
• Resourceful
• Intelligent
• Determined
Hogwarts and CharacterTraits
In your Houses:
Come up with brief definitions—in your own words—of the traits that
are listed for your House. (For the hybrid Houses, choose four.)
Then:
--Choose the one that you think best describes yourself.
--Why do you think you ended up in this House?

8. Essay #3:The Writing Assignment: Define a character trait,
explain its importance, and analyze its portrayal in a
character.
We know that each of the Hogwarts houses has specific personality traits that are
associated with the students in that house. For each of the four houses, we have chosen
two traits:
 Gryffindor: bravery, chivalry
 Hufflepuff: dedication, loyalty
 Ravenclaw: intelligence, creativity
 Slytherin: ambition, pride
For this essay, choose ONE of the eight qualities from the list above.
■ Define and describe that quality in some depth, considering both the potential good
and bad aspects of that quality.
■ Analyze how that quality affects the attitude and/or actions of ONE of the characters
in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
■ Your final essay should be between three and five pages. (This means you should
have at least one line on page four to ensure you have filled three complete pages).

9. Your definition and analysis will rely on several sources, including a dictionary or
encyclopedia, an outside article, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Outside Sources:
■ Your essay will use multiple outside sources to provide different types of information in
support your definition and analysis.
■ In order to define and explain your trait, you will use a reliable and authoritative
dictionary or encyclopedia (NOT Wikipedia). (Use at least one quotation.)
■ You will help to describe and explain your trait using discussion or examples from an
appropriate outside article. See Appendix I to this assignment for links to at least one
article for each trait. (Use at least one quotation.)
■ You will need at least two quotations describing and explaining your trait from Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. (Use at least two quotations.)
■ This means that your essay will contain at least four total quotations from these
sources.

10. Finding your sources
(on Canvas)
■ Where do you find the outside article?
■ On the course homepage:
■ Then, choose the trait you want to
read about:

11. Finding your sources:
Encyclopedia/Dictionary
■ Start at De Anza’s Homepage: www.deanza.edu
■ Click Library Databases Click the “Library” link
Click “Library Databases”

12. Scroll down to “Individual Databases”

13. Then click here

14. Encyclopedia Entry

15. Make sure this says MLA

17. Another way to get the definition:
After you search your
term, click on Dictionary!

18. And you’ll get the definition!

19. According to Merriam-Webster, the word ”chivalry” refers to “a
body of knights,” and suggests “the qualities of the ideal knight”
(“chivalry”).
The Encyclopedia Britannica, says that “the concept of chivalry
in the sense of “honourable and courteous conduct expected of a
knight” was perhaps at its height in the 12th and 13th centuries.”
Eventually, ”the word came to be used in its general sense of
‘courtesy’” ("Chivalry." Britannica).
In order to define and explain your trait, you will use a reliable
and authoritative dictionary or encyclopedia (NOT Wikipedia).
(Use at least one quotation.)
“Chivalry.” Merriam-Webster. Encyclopedia Britannica.
ezproxy.fhda.edu:2223/levels/collegiate/article/chivalry/82230.
Accessed 19 Oct. 2017.

20. Vocab Quiz
■ Define each word:
■ 1. Livid
■ 2. Nimble
■ 3. Fiasco
■ (For individual class points.)
■ What does each of these
spells do?
■ 4. Expelliarmus
■ 5.Vipera Evanesca
■ (For House Points.)

21. In-ClassWriting
A Focused Explanation: Define and describe the
character trait you have chosen in some depth,
considering both the potential good and bad aspects
of that quality. Are there multiple kinds of the quality?
For example, can you identify physical, social, moral,
and emotional courage?

22. HOMEWORK
Read HP Chapter 14 pages 249-264
Read At least one article about your concept.
Vocabulary: Vocab 10-12
HW Discussion 8
 Come up with your own draft definition of the
trait you have chosen. In your own words,
explain the trait as you understand it, and tell
why is it important?
 Choose and post at least one quotation from
the article you read that helps to explain your
character trait. Make sure to note the article so
you can find it again.
 Now find a reliable definition of that trait from
an authoritative source. Use a dictionary or an
encyclopedia (use the library sources we
learned about in class today). Make sure you
understand what this definition is saying.
Explain it as you understand it in your own
words.
 Choose one character who embodies this trait