Portfolio Checklist for Fall 2013

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__________________________________

COA ENG 1A Fall 2013 Syllabus Professor Wanda Sabir Revised English 1A Composition and Reading (3 classes)

Class code: 40002 Lec 08:00-8:50 AM MTWTh  meets in A 202
Class code: 40007 Lec 10:00-10:50 AM MTWTh meets in D205
Class code: 40008 Lec 11:00-11:50 AM MTWTh meets in D205

Class Meetings: August 19-Dec. 5; Holidays: 9/2; 11/11; 11/28-Dec.1;

Final Exam Week: M-F, Dec. 9-13 (Portfolios due via e-mail by Friday, Dec. 13, 12 noon).

Finals Schedule: CANCELED
Class code: 40002 Lec 08:00-8:50 AM: 8-10 a.m., Fri., Dec.13;

Class code: 40007 Lec 10:00-10:50 AM:10 a.m.-12 noon, Mon., Dec. 9;

Class code: 40008 Lec 11:00-11:50 AM:10 a.m.-12 noon Wed., Dec.11.

The finals are conducted in the classrooms, unless otherwise noted. The final is not optional.

Portfolio Due Date Deadline:
Portfolios due via e-mail by Friday, Dec. 13, 12 noon Noon via e-mail coasabirenglish1A@gmail.com  Make sure you receive a receipt for your submission. No paper copies, no exceptions.

Drop-in Portfolio Assembly Workshop  _______________
Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, A-205:  9 - 12 noon. (I can stay later if needed). 

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 2013, Professor Sabir’s English Class_______

The narrative will look at the theme this semester: Rebellion or Resistance and Social Change Agents who recognize a problem and fight for its resolution through the three essays: Rosa Parks, Book Report and Social Entrepreneur Profile. In 50 Essays and the earlier essays by Frederick Douglass, Sherman Alexie, Malcolm X, and Helen Keller we also explored similar topics.

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.

We shared this essay last week in a Finals Salon. ___________ (check here if present)The essay shared in the Finals Salon can take the place of Essay 1 here. You do not have to write another essay.


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,  Diana Hacker's Rules for Writing, and They Say, I Say, in your bibliography. Site at least two of these sources 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 (500-750 words) since you are citing your essays and scholarly sources.

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 ______________

Cyber-Assignments:
Frontline World __________
New Heroes__________

Muhammad Yunus_________

Book Report

Planning Sheet, Outline, Thesis___________
Final draft grade__________
Revisions__________________
Revision Goals Narrative(s)________________
Cyber-Assignments: ___________

They Say___________

 
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_________

Rosa Parks Essay
Planning Sheet, Outline, Thesis___________
Final draft grade__________
Revisions__________________ (How many?)
Revision Goals Narrative(s)________________  (Summarize all of them here. Walk us through the writing process for this essay. Why did you have to revise it 1,2,3-5 times (smile).

Cyber-Assignments: ___________

They Say___________

Reading Logs_________

Text Books

They Say, I Say Exercises____________ (How many?)
NOTE: Only post Assignments here that you posted on the blog which are not a part of an essay portfolio. If the assignment is a part of an Essay Portfolio, do not re-post.


50 Essays+:

Frederick Douglass, Helen Keller, Sherman Alexie, Malcolm X____________

50 Essays Assignments includes Freewrites ________ 

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

Exams

Multiple Choice Exam 1 Score with narrative and plan________

Multiple Choice Exam 2 Score with narrative________

In-class MLA Formatting Exam score with narrative _________

Extra Credit Assignment_________

Students can submit an essay from another course or discipline if the other teacher is okay with this provision. Include the assignment prompt, course and the grade. The essay has to use research and MLA style documentation, so certain courses are not applicable. 

Anything else? _____________________________________________



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_________