Portfolio Checklist

Ok. For Friday, by the beginning of class you need:

1.) 1 pocked folder (NOT file folder) with your name clearly on the front.

2.) Your Self-Reflection essay in front on the left.

3.) Your personal narrative essay. 3 drafts.

Put the final draft in front, the 2nd draft behind it, the 1st draft behind it. The drafts should have my comments on them.

4.) Your Compare and Contrast essay OR your Classical Argument essay. 3 drafts.

Put the final draft in front, the 2nd draft behind it, the 1st draft behind it. The drafts should have my comments and your peer reviewers on them. (Some of you only received the peer review sheet, and that's fine, but put your 2nd draft in there, anyway.)

I will put your finals in on Friday at the beginning of class.

If you do not have these elements completed by Friday, I will not accept your portfolio. If you need a last-minute reviewer, I recommend the writing center in the library.

Our last class period is Tuesday, the 31st, and we will meet during our Final time, 8:30 on June 3, to receive portfolios back. Fun! :)

Stuff

We're in the Lab M114.

Bring TWO copies of your essay 2/3 to class. Remove your name from the copies you print. Have copies printed BEFORE coming to class (but don't come late!) :)

We're writing the final on Tuesday and Wednesday. You can highlight and note-take all you want on the copies of the readings I gave you.

Don't forget to buy a two-pocket folder before Friday.

Friday, everything is due, decently and in order at the BEGINNING of class.

Hang in there. :)

Final

We will discuss the final readings Friday if you are prepared to do so.

We will write the final essays in class, Tuesday and Wednesday, May 24 and 25.

Portfolios due, complete and ready to turn in at the beginning of class, May 27. (Friday).

COMPUTER LAB DATES!!! YAY!!!

Here's what I got for us, Chickadees:

Friday May 13th in M-223 from 12:40-1:40
Wednesday May 18th in M-114 from 12:40-1:40
Friday May 20th in M-223 from 12:40-1:40
Monday May 23rd in M-114 from 12:40-1:40
Tuesday May 24th in M-114 from 12:40-1:40

Hooray!

Classical Argument Format

For Essay 3:

Classical Argument Format:

Introduction: Stylized and Dazzling

Background: Background information, historical information, groundwork

Argument: Probably 2 solid paragraphs

Counter-Argument: a nod to the other side, usually a paragraph

Rebuttal: countering-the counter argument "They have good points, but I'm still right because..." your best arguments should go here.

Conclusion: Stylized and Dazzling

Self-Assessment Essay Instructions

Instructions for the Self-Assessment Essay
English 12 Final Portfolio



In order for your portfolio to be complete and ready for final assessment by outside readers, you must compose and include a self-assessment essay. This essay is the most important document in your portfolio, so it deserves your time and attention. In this essay, your task is to demonstrate that you have met, or haven’t met, the assessment criteria for English 12 as described in the portfolio assessment criteria document. The self-assessment essay should:

• Consider the assessment criteria categories one by one, describing how well you have met these criteria in the writing you have included in the portfolio.
• Make explicit and detailed reference to particular pieces of writing and places within those pieces that provide evidence demonstrating your accomplishments and/or your struggles in a particular area.
• Be brutally honest and straightforward in its description of your progress and your accomplishments.
• Highlight progress and change through the semester. Make it easy for your reader to see how your essay writing has developed over the course of English 12. No one expects you to be a “perfect” essay writer by the end of the course; instead, we value evidence of your growth as a writer.
• Be an essay—meaning that it should be a focused, cohesive piece of writing in which you argue for your own accomplishments as a writer in English 12.


The self-assessment essay should avoid:

• Flattery of yourself and of your instructor.
• Unsupported and exaggerated claims of growth and change as writers and learners. Any claim you make regarding your growth as a writer must be explicitly supported by evidence drawn from the documents you have chosen to include in the portfolio.


Finally, it is vitally important that you take this self-assessment essay seriously and spend quite a bit of time working on it. It will serve as your readers’ “map” for your portfolio. It may strongly determine what your readers notice and value as they read over your coursework. Please take the time to do meaningful work on this essay before submitting a final version of it in your portfolio.

Due Dates and Portfolio Guidelines.

Ok, friends. Hold on to your hats.

First draft for your second essay is due 5/17 by 11:59pm.

I'll have them back to you on Friday, and your 2nd draft is due Monday 5/23 IN CLASS.

The rest of your portfolio is due at the BEGINNING OF CLASS Friday, May 27th.

PORTFOLIO GUIDELINES:

Assembly Instructions for your
Final Portfolio for English 12


Your portfolio should be in a pocket folder or another type of document holder that holds papers securely. A regular manila file folder is not an appropriate choice.

Inside the portfolio, you should arrange the following documents in a way that will be clear and helpful for your portfolio reader. Please be sure that everything is labeled clearly:

• Self-Assessment essay: Please present us with a single draft of an essay in which you reflect on your own progress and learning in English 12, as evidenced in the written work presented in the portfolio. Please see more details on the separate instruction sheet for the self-assessment essay.

• Two revised essays: Please present us with two essays that you have written for your English 12 class and that have gone through a process of drafting and receiving feedback from your teacher and peers. For each essay, we expect to see at least three drafts (a first draft with comments, a second draft with comments, and a final draft), but you may include more than three drafts.

• Optional –“Writer's choice”: If you wish to, you may present us with an additional document you produced as part of your English 12 class that you feel exhibits your strengths and/or growth as a writer and reader. This document could be a variety of genre; it could be a homework assignment, a journal entry, a single draft of an essay you are not including in another section of your portfolio, a Blackboard assignment, perhaps even a photocopy of annotations on your reading or your written feedback on a peer's essay. Think creatively in this category. Please provide a written explanation of the assignment or context for your "writer's choice" document in your self-assessment essay.

In addition to the items listed above, your final written exam for English 12 will be placed in your portfolio by your teacher.

A few tips and requests from the portfolio readers:

• Please do not staple the entire contents of the portfolio together. This makes it extremely difficult to look through drafts and to look through the portfolio as a whole.
• Please do label everything very clearly--particularly the drafts of your revised essays. We will look at the revision process you engaged in with each essay, so we need to be able to look at your drafts in the order you wrote them.

Works Cited Page

Title it Works Cited and center the title.

List sources in alphabetical order by author’s last name

Michaels, Leonard. “My Yiddish.” Exploring Language. Ed. Gary Goshgarian. New York: Longman, 2010. p. 75-81. Print.

I can't do it here, but remember each entry should use HANGING text (go to paragraph, choose "special" and choose "hanging").

Remember that Works Cited pages should be in ALPHABETICAL order.

OWL links:

Basic Works Cited Info

Sample Works Cited Page

In-text Citations, Paranthetical Citations

In-text Citations:

Want to use 1-3 quotes per paragraph.

Sandwich Your Quotes
1.) Lead into and out of them
a. Set up the quote (here’s something important)
b. Quote the quote and cite it
c. EXPLAIN why the quote is significant/important/relevant
2.) Don’t start or end paragraphs with quotes.

What Citations Should Look Like

Leading into quote, “Something brilliant” (Hunt 276).

Hunt said, “Something brilliant” (276) and it was totally awesome.

Hunt said something brilliant (276), and it was totally awesome.

PUNCTUATION ON THE OUTSIDE!!!!

If you quote someone that was quoted in the essay you read, here's how to cite that:

Ravitch argues that high schools are pressured to act as "Social service centers, and they don't do that well" (qtd. in Weisman 259).

Quotes longer than 3 typed lines use a block quote. Or, edit.

Some OWL links:

Citations

Block Quotes

Essay 2 Organization

Compare and Contrast Organization

For example… Jane Austen’s Heroine Qualities

Heroines are Sassy & Traditional
Elizabeth (Pride &Prejudice)
Emma (Emma)

Paragraph 1
Elizabeth and Emma, Sassy

Paragraph 2
Elizabeth and Emma, traditional
OR

Paragraph A
Elizabeth is sassy and traditional

Paragraph B
Emma is sassy and traditional
For YOUR essays:

Option 1:

Paragraph 1: Essay 1 Ideas and Rhetorical Critique (or Rhetorical and Ideas Critique)

Paragraph 2: Essay 2 Ideas and Rhetorical Critique (or Rhetorical and Ideas Critique)

Paragraph 3: Discussion of the essay you feel is most successful and why

OR
Option 2:

Paragraph 1: Discuss Essay 1 and Essay 2 rhetorically (or ideas)

Paragraph 2: Discuss Essay 1 and Essay 2 ideas (or rhetorically)

Paragraph 3: Discussion of the essay you feel is most successful and why

Don’t forget stylized intros and conclusions. :) Woo to the hoo.

For Monday

For Monday: Be ready to begin working on Essay 2. That means... have your two essays you want to compare and contrast in mind, and have some ideas about how to go about that.

Have a great weekend! :)

For Wed

Tomorrow:
“There is no Unmarked Woman”

And... bring pencils. :)

For Tuesday 5/3

Tomorrow:
1.) Handout: “Real Men Don’t” and “There is No Unmarked Woman”