Writing Portfolio
Collect
• Use the folder (provided by Mrs. Donovan) to collect and organize pieces into your 2012-13 portfolio.
• Begin collecting all your writing and reading artifacts for a portfolio:
1. business letter to Whole Foods,
2. tree metaphor expository essay,
3. friendly letter to the tree,
4. multigenre project about the Maya,
5. Journals (what we watch on TV, rules for watching TV, terrible things, danger/advice for 6th graders, value vs. worth, hope vs. hopelessness, sharing space),
6. Video game argument essay,
7. argument essay on topic of choice,
8. what makes a good poem argument essay,
9. friendly letters (English/Spanish) to My Melody,
10. poems - -symbol, snapshot, elegy, villanelle, haiku, sijo, tanka, ballade, ballad, ghazal, quatrain, free verse, blank verse, sonnet, concrete
11. analysis of professional poem
12. 3 original poems and analysis,
13. personal narrative
14. fiction story,
15. informational essay about Anne Frank,
16. informational essay about your future self,
17. essay questions from the reading/literature tests (look for the longer passages that you wrote in the reading tests.
18. Others?
Reflect
1. What do you remember about writing this or that?
2. What did you learn to do?
3. How did this writing push or stretch your thinking?
4. Looking at the beginning to the end, what do you notice in your thinking and writing development?
5. What are your best memories of writing?
Select
for side A of the folder : Celebrate what you can do!
ð Decide which pieces demonstrate what you learned to do as a writer this year.
ð Be sure that what you select you can explain the genre, the grammar you focused on, the topic-specific language.
ð Select a variety of genres to show the range of genres, how you organized ideas, support or example, any poetic techniques, styles, word choice, organization, and grammar focus.
ð Choose ten and put them in chronological order on Side A (or the left side).
ð Complete this chart and put it on side A as a table of contents (type it later if time).
Side A (left) Writing Portfolio
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Genre
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Date Originally Written
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The writing skills:
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Select AGAIN: Selection or side B of the folder:
o Select a few pieces that remain in the collection to revise, rework, or begin anew. This can be a poem that was scribbled , or a journal that was partly done, or a draft of a personal narrative or fiction that you chose not to peer edit and get graded. This can even be an essay that you wrote in a reading test and want to type out and add to. Another idea is to rework one piece into another genre; for example, take a poem you wrote and turn it into a story, or take a journal and turn it into an argument. And, a final idea is to take a poem or story written by someone else, and rework it into a new genre. For example, I might take the poem "The Quiet Room," by Evelyn Lau, and turn it into a short story or a news article -- inspiration.
o The purpose is for you to have at LEAST
o one poem,
o one, one-page piece of writing (12 font, Times New Roman, double-spaced), and
o one longer piece that would be two full pages or more (12 font, Times New Roman, double spaced.
o Complete this form and get it signed by Mrs. Donovan.
A piece I want to change or start new
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Genre it was
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Genre it will be
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Writing skills and/or thinking I will try to demonstrate:
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Mrs. Donovan’s signature:
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Bonus Revised or New Piece:
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Bonus Revised or New Piece:
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Revise
ð Work on the three pieces you selected for side B in class over the next few days. When you and a few friends have one piece done – even if they are different genres - -tell Mrs. Donovan, and you can do a peer conference (with or without Mrs. Donovan).
ð Staple the original BEHIND the new and put these in the right side of your folder with a table of contents like above (or cut out above and tape it to the inside of the folder).
ð You can do more or original pieces if you have extra time! This will be a bonus grade.
Letter to the Reader
Write a 1-3 page (12 font, Times New Roman, double spaced) reflective letter that gives your reader a TOUR of your portfolio.
Use friendly letter format and start with “Dear Reader” ; write about your experiences as a writer this year as you introduce the collection of your work to your reader
ð Discuss how have your feelings about yourself as a writer changed throughout the year? Describe what exactly has changed and how this makes you feel.
ð What has frustrated/excited/confused/worried/etc. you the most about writing this year? Why have you felt this way, and what (if anything) could have changed the way you felt?
ð We have placed great emphasis on writing together, conferencing, and working on techniques , or a multiple draft approach to writing. How has this approach helped you as a writer/student?
ð Can you pin-point a specific time during the quarter when you had an “Aha” moment, or a moment where you had a “breakthrough” and things started to make more sense to you?
ð What specific writing assignment/activity/lesson/etc. was the most influential or meaningful to you? Why?
ð What essays did you select for side A in the folder? Name the title, genre, and writing skills you needed to create this piece. Give specific examples from the text. For example, I might say: “I selected my argument essay title, “A Good Trade,” about my father to show what I learned about writing an argument. I had to show two sides, so I used transitions like ‘on one hand’ and ‘on the other hand.’ I also had to include the counterargument of what my siblings might say.”
ð What essays or genres did you select for side B in the folder? Why did you select these? What were you trying to show by revising them. Tell your reader what to look for as he or she reads it. Include the title, genre, skills, and thinking you are trying to show.
ð How does your portfolio, as a whole, “tell a story” of your writing experience, growth, frustrations, pride, etc. from the quarter?
ð Include a closing and your signature.
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B
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C-D
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Total
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Collection and Reflection in clip
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In the clip, readers will find a COMPLETE (minus side A)
1. a collection of your writing from the semester. In here, we should see the journals, poems, essays, literature tests, and anything else you wrote.
2. A reflection worksheet.
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More than just a few items are missing, but the reflection worksheet is very thoughtfully written.
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Quite a few items are missing from the collection, and/or the readers does not have much to read on the reflection.
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___/10 collection
___/10 reflection
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Selection and table of contents, side A (left)
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On side A, readers will find
1. A collection of ten pieces of your writing that shows you have written a variety of genres and for a variety of audiences and purposes.
2. A table of contents that guides the reader to finding each piece.
3. A list of skills you practice when creating the pieces.
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The collection is complete and the table contents is done, too, but some of the details are missing.
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Quite a few pieces are missing or the table of contents is not thoughtfully created to guide the reader.
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____/5 the number of pieces
____/10 table of contents
____/10 skills
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Revision, side B
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On side B, readers will find
1. A new poem that demonstrates how you arrange words in a concentrated form using poetic technique.
2. A one page piece of writing that shows you can choose your words carefully when creating a shorter piece of writing with consideration for audience, genre, and purpose. Conventions are strong.
3. A longer, 2-3 page piece of writing that demonstrates you can elaborate and extend ideas for the purpose and genre you are writing. Conventions are strong.
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This collection is complete yet there are just a few issues with the genre or conventions.
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The collection is mostly complete, perhaps one or two piece are incomplete or one piece or more pieces are missing. Some of obvious errors in spelling and grammar are not “caught” by the writer before publishing.
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_____/10 short piece
____/15 one pager
____/20 two-three pager
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Letter to the reader, side B
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On top of the 3 piece on side B, the reader will find a letter that
1. Is in friendly letter format
2. Explains to the reader how to read the portfolio and includes most of the talking points on the assignment
3. Gives details and examples from your writing to explain to the reader your experience of writing
4. Demonstrates thoughtful consideration of collecting, selecting, and revising
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The letter meets most of the criteria for an A but might lack support or detail to help the reader understand how to read the portfolio.
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The letter is not too helpful for the reader and/or does not demonstrate thoughtful consideration of writing this year.
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____25
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total
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_____/115
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