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Centennial High School
Tenth Grade Portfolio Requirements
All students are responsible for writing these entries and placing required writings in their portfolios in their English classrooms. It is the student’s responsibility to meet all required deadlines.
Portfolio requirements:
1. Notes from group work evaluating a speaker or presentation. These notes will be created during a group assignment done in-class. Include a half-page evaluation of the group’s dynamic with attention to active listening and participation.
2. Literary Analysis essay based upon the piece’s themes or cultural/ historical perspectives. Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment. Essay must include a works cited page.
3. Text, PowerPoint, or files from a presentation explaining or arguing a position based upon a current event or topic of relevance. The portfolio requirement will include a self-evaluation of the presentation. The presentation must consider the target audience.
4. Multi-genre writing. Must include a one-page self-reflection on the editing process and how it affected the craft of your writing.
5. Evaluation of writing based upon a criteria- for example a rubric, checklist or other evaluation tool. The evaluation should be based upon a through analysis of the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone as well as the author’s establishment of credibility.
6. Research paper- ROUGH DRAFT with FINAL DRAFT on top. Include research questions and copies or printouts of source information. Utilize primary source documents to evaluate a literary work’s contribution to society.
7. Persuasive writing, speech, or presentation with a focus upon use of persuasive vocabulary. Writing must be 0ne to two pages in length or a 3-5 minute speech. Include an evaluation of at least two peers’ presentations that analyzes the speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence. Use an evaluation of your own speech to include a revised version for the portfolio.
8. Memoir. Must be appropriate format and length with attention to audience. Use an Internet resource to produce or publish the memoir.
9. Word Study. Create a word journal of words encountered over a course of study (for example the first semester). Entries must meet specified criteria for developing meaning for each selected word. Use the word journal to draw conclusions about new terms and provide examples of where at least 10 of these new academic or domain specific words or phrases have been successfully incorporated into your own writings.
10. Compare/contrast response to the development of an idea or concept across multiple texts. Texts selected should represent seminal US documents of historical and literary significance. Textual support is required from all selections discussed.
11. One written assignment from each class. The assignment should be something that has been graded and returned to the student. There should be six (6) written pieces to fulfill this requirement.
One assignment from this portfolio must be completed, reviewed, edited, and rewritten using Google Docs or similar Internet tool. Documentation of submission, editing, and any other applicable times or information needs to be stapled to the corresponding portfolio item.
The completed portfolio score that includes evaluations for each writing sample will equal a fourth quarter test score.
Adopted: 30 June 2010
Tenth Grade Portfolio Requirements
All students are responsible for writing these entries and placing required writings in their portfolios in their English classrooms. It is the student’s responsibility to meet all required deadlines.
Portfolio requirements:
1. Notes from group work evaluating a speaker or presentation. These notes will be created during a group assignment done in-class. Include a half-page evaluation of the group’s dynamic with attention to active listening and participation.
2. Literary Analysis essay based upon the piece’s themes or cultural/ historical perspectives. Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment. Essay must include a works cited page.
3. Text, PowerPoint, or files from a presentation explaining or arguing a position based upon a current event or topic of relevance. The portfolio requirement will include a self-evaluation of the presentation. The presentation must consider the target audience.
4. Multi-genre writing. Must include a one-page self-reflection on the editing process and how it affected the craft of your writing.
5. Evaluation of writing based upon a criteria- for example a rubric, checklist or other evaluation tool. The evaluation should be based upon a through analysis of the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone as well as the author’s establishment of credibility.
6. Research paper- ROUGH DRAFT with FINAL DRAFT on top. Include research questions and copies or printouts of source information. Utilize primary source documents to evaluate a literary work’s contribution to society.
7. Persuasive writing, speech, or presentation with a focus upon use of persuasive vocabulary. Writing must be 0ne to two pages in length or a 3-5 minute speech. Include an evaluation of at least two peers’ presentations that analyzes the speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence. Use an evaluation of your own speech to include a revised version for the portfolio.
8. Memoir. Must be appropriate format and length with attention to audience. Use an Internet resource to produce or publish the memoir.
9. Word Study. Create a word journal of words encountered over a course of study (for example the first semester). Entries must meet specified criteria for developing meaning for each selected word. Use the word journal to draw conclusions about new terms and provide examples of where at least 10 of these new academic or domain specific words or phrases have been successfully incorporated into your own writings.
10. Compare/contrast response to the development of an idea or concept across multiple texts. Texts selected should represent seminal US documents of historical and literary significance. Textual support is required from all selections discussed.
11. One written assignment from each class. The assignment should be something that has been graded and returned to the student. There should be six (6) written pieces to fulfill this requirement.
One assignment from this portfolio must be completed, reviewed, edited, and rewritten using Google Docs or similar Internet tool. Documentation of submission, editing, and any other applicable times or information needs to be stapled to the corresponding portfolio item.
The completed portfolio score that includes evaluations for each writing sample will equal a fourth quarter test score.
Adopted: 30 June 2010
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