Not current (from 2005)

The Midterm Portfolio

The Final Portfolio

Your Midterm Portfolio is due Monday, 11/7/05.

Your Final Portfolio is due during the final week of class.

Description: The Midterm and Final Portfolios contain all of the work you have generated this term, organized in such a way as to represent the ways in which you progressed through each writing assignment and introduced by the formal Reflections you generated and deeply revised in your Writing Group.

Purpose: The Midterm and Final Portfolios represent to others what you have done and learned in the course. Think of the Midterm Portfolio as a “dry run” of the much more significant Final Portfolio, which will be worth 40% of your final course grade and will largely determine whether or not you will pass English 100.

Who will be reading the Midterm Portfolio? I will. During our midterm portfolio conferences next week, I will answer the following questions with respect to your Midterm Portfolio: (1) As I reviewed this representation of all you have done this term, what did I learn about your growth as a writer thus far? (2) If I were to offer this Midterm Portfolio a grade, what grade would it earn and why? (3) What can you do to the Midterm Portfolio and the works contained within it in order to improve this grade (and/or maintain it) and ensure that the panel of readers assessing your Final Portfolio will be equally impressed with your work this term?

Who will be reading the Final Portfolio? A panel of readers made up of all the English 100 instructors in our program. In these pages, you will be speaking to them as much as you are speaking to me.  Remember this (from your syllabus)?

Your Final Portfolio will be reviewed by a panel of experienced English 100 instructors. This panel will be looking for things like this: How evident is your growth as a writer in this portfolio? Is there evidence here that you understand the importance of deep revision? Is there evidence of your ability to effectively rework these writing assignments to meet (or exceed) specified criteria? Are you ready for the demands of English 101?

Your Midterm Portfolio should contain the following texts in the following order—

1.        Responses to the Midterm Self Assessment questions (attached)

2.        The most recent draft of WA1, followed by any and all drafts and notes you used to generate this most recent draft.

3.        The most recent draft of WA2, followed by any and all drafts, relevant notes (from interviews, group activities, journals), peer review feedback, instructor feedback, and anything else you used to generate this most recent draft.

4.       The most recent draft of WA3, followed by any and all drafts, relevant notes (from interviews, group activities, journals), peer review feedback, instructor feedback, and anything else you used to generate this most recent draft.

5.       Handouts from Group Presentations on Rose’s The Mind at Work  

6.        The most recent draft of WA4, followed by any and all drafts, relevant notes (from interviews, group activities, journals), feedback from tutor, instructor feedback, and anything else you used to generate this most recent draft.

7.        The most recent draft of WA5, followed by any and all drafts, relevant notes (from interviews, group activities, journals), responses to Trekkies 2 and Faking  It (if relevant and available),  feedback from tutor, instructor feedback, and anything else you used to generate this most recent draft.

8.        The most recent draft of WA6, followed by any and all drafts, relevant notes (from interviews, group activities, journals), peer review feedback, instructor feedback, and anything else you used to generate this most recent draft.

9.        The most recent draft of WA7, followed by any and all drafts, relevant notes (from interviews, group activities, journals), peer review feedback, and anything else you used to generate this most recent draft.

10.     Your Dialogue Journal! (almost 15% of your final course grade)

Midterm Portfolio Conferences: Beginning Wednesday, 11/9/05

Your Final Portfolio should contain the following texts in the following order—

1.        The most recent draft of the Final Reflections, followed by any and all drafts, notes, and feedback you used to generate this most recent draft.

2.        Responses to the Midterm Self Assessment questions (see above)

3.        The most recent draft of WA1, followed by any and all drafts, notes, and feedback you used to generate this most recent draft.

4.       The most recent draft of WA2, followed by any and all drafts, relevant notes (from interviews, group activities, journals), peer review feedback, instructor feedback, and anything else you used to generate this most recent draft.

5.       The most recent draft of WA3, followed by any and all drafts, relevant notes (from interviews, group activities, journals), peer review feedback, instructor feedback, and anything else you used to generate this most recent draft.

6.        The most recent draft of WA4, followed by any and all drafts, relevant notes (from interviews, group activities, journals), feedback from tutor, instructor feedback, and anything else you used to generate this most recent draft.

7.        Handouts from Group Presentations on Rose’s The Mind at Work.  

8.        The most recent draft of WA5, followed by any and all drafts, relevant notes (from interviews, group activities, journals), responses to Trekkies 2 and Faking  It (if relevant and available),  feedback from tutor, instructor feedback, and anything else you used to generate this most recent draft.

9.        The most recent draft of WA6, followed by any and all drafts, relevant notes (from interviews, group activities, journals), peer review feedback, instructor feedback, and anything else you used to generate this most recent draft.

10.     The most recent draft of WA7, followed by any and all drafts, relevant notes (from interviews, group activities, journals), peer review feedback, and anything else you used to generate this most recent draft.

11.      Handouts from Individual Presentations (comparing/contrasting school literacies with vernacular ones)

12.     The most recent draft of WA7, followed by any and all drafts, relevant notes (from interviews, group activities, journals), peer review feedback, and anything else you used to generate this most recent draft.

13.     Your Dialogue Journal! (almost 15% of your final course grade)

14.     Anything else you’d like to include (poetry, short stories, something else) that represents you as a writer at the end of the fall term, 2005.

Final Portfolio Conferences: Beginning the final week of class.

Midterm Self Assessment

Before your Midterm Portfolio Conference, please complete the following questions:

1. What is your assessment of your own work thus far? After seeing your entire semester represented in this way, what are your thoughts?

2. Which writing assignment did you enjoy the most and why?

3. Which writing assignment did you find most difficult and why?

4. What have you learned about yourself as a writer and a reader in these last several weeks (since August)?

5. What else do you hope to learn? What concerns do you have about your growth as a writer and/or your performance in the course thus far?

Anything else you’d like me to know before I review this Midterm Portfolio?