HP article from US News
Jul. 21st, 2005 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emmagrant01In case you don't have access to US News and World Report, here is a link to last week's article about the impact of the Harry Potter books on kids. It cites a lot of anecdotal evidence about how reading the HP books has positively impacted the reading skills of many children. There are also a couple of mentions of teachers using fan fiction as a tool to help build kids' writing skills, which I found interesting. (Back in my day, we had to write fan fiction on our own time!)
You know you have a dirty mind when you read a sentence like this:
"Although the Harry books grow more complex with each installment, the series structure gives kids a basis of knowledge to work from--like what Hogwarts is all about and that Draco Malfoy kind of sucks."
...and your thoughts go off on another tangent entirely... Heh. ;-)
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You know you have a dirty mind when you read a sentence like this:
"Although the Harry books grow more complex with each installment, the series structure gives kids a basis of knowledge to work from--like what Hogwarts is all about and that Draco Malfoy kind of sucks."
...and your thoughts go off on another tangent entirely... Heh. ;-)
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Date: 2005-07-21 08:30 pm (UTC)(excuse my icon...you'll have to imagine, Draco re-paying Harry's kindness afterwards---don't have a 'Malfoy sucks icon'--what's that? Photoshop calling?)
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Date: 2005-07-22 02:40 am (UTC)And one a bit more obvious. (heehee)
Date: 2005-07-22 12:05 am (UTC)Take 'em, share 'em, delete 'em...whatever.
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Date: 2005-07-21 08:31 pm (UTC)hmmm draco sucks....
but of course we've known that for ages :D
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Date: 2005-07-21 08:43 pm (UTC)This recent HP article has a quote from LJ's very own
If anyone is making "Draco sucks" buttons, I'll take one! heh ;D
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Date: 2005-07-21 10:13 pm (UTC)Neville/Greyback would work. You could probably make it work.
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Date: 2005-07-21 09:03 pm (UTC)We did that in my senior English class. I spent the first semester writing almost nothing but H/D slash and kept getting comments like "Excellent!" and "Give more detail." I always new that woman was a closet pervert.
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Date: 2005-07-21 09:27 pm (UTC)...only 'kind of' ?? *lifts eyebrow*
*giggles*
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Date: 2005-07-21 09:35 pm (UTC)Those poor innocent children, she will corrupt them yet!
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Date: 2005-07-21 09:38 pm (UTC)I've been offer a job as an English teacher and if I ever get to teach, I was sorta planning to use HP books as teaching material as well *lol* That'd be fun ;)
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Date: 2005-07-22 01:35 am (UTC)I'd love to add links to whatever you do, and hear from you if you get any ideas from my site... I'm really hoping it can let teachers and administration know how useful "pop culture" can be.
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Date: 2005-07-23 02:16 am (UTC)I'm still not sure if I get the job but I'd love to keep in touch with you just in case I do! Thank you for contacting me! I really treasure this sort of information that I'll be needing! I'll definitely take a look at your site :)
I still don't have a homepage of my own, but am planning on making one. As of now, I only have fandom LJ *lol* But look what it got me ;) Fandom definitely rocks! *hugs*
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Date: 2005-07-22 02:43 am (UTC)But I teach math. :-/
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Date: 2005-07-21 10:06 pm (UTC)The question is perhaps rhetorical, no?
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Date: 2005-07-21 11:55 pm (UTC)I'm now picturing Harry and Draco hiding in a safehouse somewhere, fooling around.
Draco licks Harry's cock halfheartedly.
A frustrated Harry yells "Hey! What do you call that?"
"Didn't you read? I only 'kind of suck.'"
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Date: 2005-07-22 02:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-22 01:30 am (UTC)second paragraph from the bottom (I'm the writing teacher at MTSU)
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