Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Portfolio Checklist

Portfolio Checklist Fall 2012 DRAFT

This checklist can serve as the table of contents. Put a check next to the items to show inclusion in the portfolio. Use as the second page to the portfolio, after the cover sheet. Where there are questions for the section, students can post the answers to the narrative there. Number the pages with a header.

Name ______________________________
Date ______________________________
Class including class code and semester ____________________
Address _______________________________________
Phone number __________________________________
Email address__________________________________

English 1A Composition and Reading (2 classes)
Class code: 400002 Lec 08:00-8:50 AM MTWTh Sabir meets in A 202 at COA
Class code: 400008 Lec 11:00-11:50 AM MTWTh Sabir meets in C113 at COA


Final Exam Friday, Dec. 14, 8-10 AM; Wed., Dec. 12, 10-12 noon
Portfolio Due Dates: Friday, Dec. 14-Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 12 Noon via e-mail coasabirenglish1A@gmail.com

Drop-in Portfolio assembly workshop in A-205 _______________
Monday, Dec. 10, 2012:  9 - 12 noon; 1-3 p.m.

The flexible due dates: Dec. 14-18, means that students can submit the portfolios per their convenience. Make sure you receive a receipt for your submission. No paper copies, no exceptions.

Grade Justification
What grade do you think you've earned this semester? What evidence supports this conclusion?

1. Portfolio Essay 1 Reflection on COA Fall 2012, Professor Sabir’s English Class_______

The narrative will look at the 18 weeks, the themes we looked at this semester such as: Respect, Parenting (Motherhood), Destiny-Choice, Nature vs. Nurture, Hip-Hop Culture, Tupac Shakur, Substastance Abuse, Black Power Movements, Education, Domestic Terrorism (Klu Klux Klan)-- International Terrorism 9/11, Iraqi War, Prison system.

What have you learned about yourself this semester? What have you learned about the discipline you are studying here: reading and writing that you plan to carry forth into your lifelong pursuit of learning.

Please also comment on the texts and whether or not they were helpful in this process. You can also talk about the instruction, culture of the class and the teacher. You can also offer suggestions.

2. Portfolio Essay 2 Reflection on revision process__________________

Look at the writing process and what you have been learning about yourself as a writer. Take two essays and talk about the planning, research and revision strategies you used. It helps to choose an early paper and compare to a later paper. Often you can more easily see the differences in your writing and a better example of mastery of certain concepts. Look at the role grammar plays in the writing process. Include here a discussion of your two MCE scores.

Also discuss skills you need to improve and how you plan to address that.

Include the Write Course Video: "Revision Strategies," the two chapters from Writing with a Thesis, and Diana Hacker's Rules for Writing, in your bibliography and also site at least one in your analysis of your revision process. Also cite your essay(s) used as examples in this second essay. This is a scholarly essay and it does count. There are cyber-assignments connected to the Write Course video and the Writing with a Thesis chapters, not to mention your responses to me re: the MCE. Use this writing where appropriate to write this second essay.

Additional narrative considerations for the portfolio essay:

The second essay has students look at the writing process and discuss their own writing process: the topics chosen, the information used, revision strategies, writing as a process. This should include a definition of the difference between editing and revising and a value statement on the place for both in composition.

I am really interested in discourse about audience and how that shapes or determines how the writer approaches her topic.

I am also interested in discussion of the revision process, and whether or not seeing writing as a work in progress or a draft, liberates or stagnates the creative process. (Students are to use examples from their writing to illustrate these points.)

I'd also like students to think about and give at three specific ways how they have grown as writers and thinkers this semester. Essay 1 is about 250 words. Essay 2 will probably be a bit longer (250-500 words) since you are citing your essays and scholarly sources. should be minimally

Give your essays a title.

Social Entrepreneur Portfolio

Planning _____________

List of sources (5) minimum in MLA format (post in the portfolio)_________

If included check off.
Essay: Planning Sheet, Outline, Thesis__________
First Draft (peer review)__________
Final Draft Grade ______________

SE Presentation date ___________
Self-reflection __________
Abstract ___________
Classmate responses __________

Cyber-Assignments:
Frontline World ___________
New Heroes ___________


Book Report

Planning Sheet, Outline, Thesis___________
Final draft grade__________
Revisions__________________
Narrative(s)________________

Book Report Presentations
Grade is an “A” for all presentations or “-0-“ for opting out. The presentation is a quarter of the grade for this assignment
Abstract___________
Self-reflection__________
Feedback_____________
Grade_________


They Say, I Say____________ (How many?)
Post Assignments here that you posted on the blog, wrote out or shared________

Additional Cyber-Assignments (not connected to an essay)
How many?__________ (Post here in the Portfolio)


Essays connected to class literature:

Respect Essay (Farai Chideya)____________
In class essay grade (include comments--type them)__________Revision Grade(s)______________ (how many?)
Narratives_____________ (how many?)
Cyber-Assignments_________(how many?)


Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary  

Essay: Planning Sheet, Outline, Thesis__________
First Draft (peer review)__________
Final Draft Grade ______________
Revisions ______________ (how many?)
Narratives_____________ (how many?)
Cyber-Assignments_________(how many?)


Holler if You Hear Me
Essay: Planning Sheet, Outline, Thesis__________
First Draft (peer review)__________
Final Draft Grade ______________
Revisions ______________ (how many?)

Narratives_____________ (how many?
Cyber-Assignments__________(how many?)



Byron Hurt In-Class Essay re:
Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes and the interview with ME Dyson in Dyson's book, Know What I Mean.


Essay: Planning Sheet, Outline, Thesis__________
Grade ______________
Revisions ______________ (how many?)

Narratives_____________ (how many?
Cyber-Assignments__________(how many?)


Peer Review of Student's Body of Work: Essays 1, 2, 3 ____________
Include the narrative and the titles of essays reviewed.

The Rose that Grew from Concrete Cyber-Assignments and Freewrites _____________
(how many?)



Teacher research

Can I use your work in presentations and publications? Would you like to be anonymous? If I plan on using your essays or work in a book, I will let you know and share any proceeds.

Yes, I agree.
No, do not use my work.

Final Grade

Portfolio checklist _____________
Portfolio Essay 1_______________
Portfolio Essay 2_______________
Portfolio Grade_________

Course Grade_________

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