AP Language and Comp Portfolio Project (this is an optional assignment if you have taken the AP exam and are passing the class)
Gingrich, Spring 2016
Value: 100 points in summative
Due Date: Portfolios are due at the end of your period’s final exam time slot:
Select the three pieces of writing from this school year that you think represent your best work. Revise those three pieces, or print out fresh copies, and place them in a folder.
A fourth piece that must be included in the portfolio is the reflective paper which is described below. You should have one essay from each of the following categories.
A paper which makes and supports a persuasive/argumentative stance. (P)
A paper which responds to a text of some sort. (T)
A paper which illustrates your personal voice, personality, and originality. (V)
Papers
The following is a list of papers from the year and what category they most fit in. A paper may fit in more than one category.
1st Semester
Romanticism/Gothicism Story (V)
Survival Games Project (P, T)
Individual and Society Essay (P, T)
Persuasive Essay Rogerian (P,T)
Summer Reading Essay (P, T)
2nd Semester
Creative Nonfiction (V)
Documentary Multigenre (V, T)
Documentary Review (T)
Decades Synthesis Paper (P,T)
Rhetorical Analysis of Articles (P, T)
Any of your in class, AP Practice Tests. Only use one of these tests within your portfolio. A persuasive would be used for P, V, or T. A rhetorical analysis would be used as V or T. Remember that even an 8 or a 9 might have received a C or lower on an outside of class essay because it represents about 40 minutes of work and is really only a rough draft. Use these if you think it is actually better than another work, not based on the grade it receives.
Reflective Paper/Letter:
Write a reflective letter of 250-500 words in which you address your next year teacher. Focus the paper on yourself as a writer and how these papers represent your abilities. The following are some questions that you may consider in writing the paper. The paper can take any form that you want, essay, narrative, story, poem, etc. Many students address the paper as a letter written to your next your teacher. AP Lit (Ms. Wren), 12 English (?), College English (Perimeter College Professor).
Label each of the four pieces of the portfolio. Staple each individual piece. Ideal clamp the four pieces together and place a rubric (which you will be given) on the front of the portfolio. Turn this all in by the end of your final exam period. Turn back in your writing folder with all original/drafts of papers as well.
Gingrich, Spring 2016
Value: 100 points in summative
Due Date: Portfolios are due at the end of your period’s final exam time slot:
Select the three pieces of writing from this school year that you think represent your best work. Revise those three pieces, or print out fresh copies, and place them in a folder.
A fourth piece that must be included in the portfolio is the reflective paper which is described below. You should have one essay from each of the following categories.
A paper which makes and supports a persuasive/argumentative stance. (P)
A paper which responds to a text of some sort. (T)
A paper which illustrates your personal voice, personality, and originality. (V)
Papers
The following is a list of papers from the year and what category they most fit in. A paper may fit in more than one category.
1st Semester
Romanticism/Gothicism Story (V)
Survival Games Project (P, T)
Individual and Society Essay (P, T)
Persuasive Essay Rogerian (P,T)
Summer Reading Essay (P, T)
2nd Semester
Creative Nonfiction (V)
Documentary Multigenre (V, T)
Documentary Review (T)
Decades Synthesis Paper (P,T)
Rhetorical Analysis of Articles (P, T)
Any of your in class, AP Practice Tests. Only use one of these tests within your portfolio. A persuasive would be used for P, V, or T. A rhetorical analysis would be used as V or T. Remember that even an 8 or a 9 might have received a C or lower on an outside of class essay because it represents about 40 minutes of work and is really only a rough draft. Use these if you think it is actually better than another work, not based on the grade it receives.
Reflective Paper/Letter:
Write a reflective letter of 250-500 words in which you address your next year teacher. Focus the paper on yourself as a writer and how these papers represent your abilities. The following are some questions that you may consider in writing the paper. The paper can take any form that you want, essay, narrative, story, poem, etc. Many students address the paper as a letter written to your next your teacher. AP Lit (Ms. Wren), 12 English (?), College English (Perimeter College Professor).
- What you see as your strengths as a writer?
- What you see as your weaknesses as a writer?
- Describe each of the three papers that you selected for your portfolio and explain why you chose them and why you think that they represent your best work in that category.
- If you were to revise them more, what would you change or alter about those pieces?
- Goals for yourself as a writer. How do you see yourself using writing in the future?
Label each of the four pieces of the portfolio. Staple each individual piece. Ideal clamp the four pieces together and place a rubric (which you will be given) on the front of the portfolio. Turn this all in by the end of your final exam period. Turn back in your writing folder with all original/drafts of papers as well.