Portfolio Checklist for Spring 2014

This checklist can serve as the table of contents. Put a grade, count or number of assignments or check next to the items to show inclusion in the portfolio.

Use as the second page to the portfolio, after the cover sheet.  The arrangement of assignments that follow in the actual portfolio reflects this order.
 

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

English 1A Composition and Reading (3 classes)

ENGL 1A (23973)  Comp and Reading A-ONLINE  Jan 21, 2014-May 23, 2014  
ENGL 1A (24853) Comp and Reading (Lecture) Sa 9:00AM - 12:50PM A 200
ENGL 1A (21951)  Comp and Reading (Lecture) Tu 6:00PM - 7:50PM  A 202 Hybrid

Portfolio Due Date Deadline: Sunday, May. 25 Noon via e-mail coasabirenglish1A@gmail.com
Make sure you receive a receipt for your submission. (If more time is needed, ask.)

Drop-in Portfolio assembly workshop(s) in A-205 _______________
Tuesday, May 20 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Thursday, May 22 11-12:50 by appointment.

Grade justification:

What grade do you think you have earned this semester? Use evidence from your assignments to support this conclusion. 

1. Portfolio Essay 1 Reflection on COA Spring 2014, Professor Sabir’s English Class_______

The synthesis will look at the theme this semester: Happiness via Gretchen Rubin’s THP, student selection of a book by or about a happy person and lastly a profile of a person whose happiness is derived through service. In 50 Essays and the earlier essays by Frederick Douglass, Sherman Alexie, Malcolm X, and Helen Keller we also explored similar topics.

In an essay of 500-750 words (2-3 pages) reflect on the topic "happiness." Use your three essays (and the essay on the film Happy) as evidence.

How has this research impacted your life? 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 and happiness?

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.

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

Include the two chapters from Writing with a Thesis, Diana Hacker's Rules for Writing, also references from OWL Purdue, in your bibliography. Site at least one 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.

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. There 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. Both essays will be between two and three pages (500-750 words). This does not include the works cited and bibliographies pages.

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:
Profiles of Social Entrepreneurs (3)__________

Book Report

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

The Happiness Project Essay Portfolio

Planning Sheet, Outline, Thesis___________
Final draft grade__________
Revisions__________________
Revision Goals Narrative(s)________________
Related Assignments (how many)_________
Reading Logs ________


They Say, I Say____________ (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 repost.

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


50 Essays+:

Frederick Douglass, Helen Keller, Sherman Alexie, Malcolm X____________

50 Essays Assignments includes Freewrites (how many?)________

Happy, the film, in class essay________

Grade:_______
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.

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_________

Today in class students did peer reviews on each other's Essay 2. I read the essays as well and gave free advice (smile).

Essays are due ASAP, Monday-Tuesday is good. I want to commend Yessica on her essay, it was excellent. I really like the books students chose. All the books have protagonists who deal with difficult topics with grace. I am looking forward to the book talks Saturday, May 10, 2014 in class. Bring your books. If you want to prepare a poster or powerpoint you can.

Also due next week are the 5-10 sources for the third essay in MLA format. Students were taught a new thesis sentence form, bring three potential sentences to class on your topic. Also use the back of the worksheet for your outline for this paper.

We read the essay on Muhammad Yunus and watched a New Heroes video from Youtube on him as well. This is a model for the third essay. The third essay is your final. It is the essay where you demonstrate your grasp of MLA and research scholarship. Each essay is building towards this final paper.

There were also handouts on Revision from Writing with a Thesis. We also went over the cyber-assignments not many students are completing. Make sure you read They Say, I Say. This coming week we are completing the final chapters: 8, 9 and 10. I will post the specific assignments later. Use these moves in the final essay. Each essay used specifics moves based on where we were at the time of the writing.

If you have been absent, call me or come to my Tuesday evening class, A-205, 6 p.m. We only have two more meeting left. Your final portfolio is due into me by Saturday, May 24, 2014.