Portfolio Checklist

Copy this into your notebook — the boxes here are printed, not clickable.

Across the course

• Your First Entry, untouched
• At least twenty-five journal entries, dated
• Annotated copies of the short stories and of two acts of the play
• Passage notes for your seminar novel, with page numbers
• Your vocabulary page

The assessed pieces, with drafts

• The Story Behind the Story — story, craft note, and draft
• The Scene, Staged — script with blocking, and the director’s note
• The Literary Essay — outline, draft with feedback, final
• The Seminar — your question, your passages, your follow-up
• The Media Deconstruction — the analysis and the paired texts you made

For the examination

• Your essay outline template, the one that works for you
• The list of texts, with two passages each you could write about cold
• Showing Growth — the pair, and three named differences

The one people forget

The drafts. Nothing in this folder carries a mark — but a final copy with nothing behind it leaves you nothing to set beside it in Showing Growth, and that pair is the only place you get to see how far the term actually moved you.

Curriculum connection

C4.3

select a variety of examples of different types of writing that they think reflect significant advances in their growth and competence as writers and explain the reasons for their choice (e.g., identify work in which they deliberately tried to include strong verbs and concrete diction; explain how they used real-life examples to add depth to their essay about a societal issue)

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D4.2

identify a variety of their skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing and explain how the skills help them interpret and produce media texts (e.g., the ability to understand how rhyme and symbols enhance meaning in a poem can help them create a powerful song lyric)

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