Portfolio Instructions

Assembly Instructions for your
Final Portfolio for English 12


Your portfolio should be in a pocket folder or another type of document holder that holds papers securely. A regular manila file folder is not an appropriate choice.

Inside the portfolio, you should arrange the following documents in a way that will be clear and helpful for your portfolio reader. Please be sure that everything is labeled clearly:

• Self-Assessment essay: Please present us with a single draft of an essay in which you reflect on your own progress and learning in English 12, as evidenced in the written work presented in the portfolio. Please see more details on the separate instruction sheet for the self-assessment essay.

• Two revised essays: Please present us with two essays that you have written for your English 12 class and that have gone through a process of drafting and receiving feedback from your teacher and peers. For each essay, we expect to see at least three drafts (a first draft with comments, a second draft with comments, and a final draft), but you may include more than three drafts.

• Optional –“Writer's choice”: If you wish to, you may present us with an additional document you produced as part of your English 12 class that you feel exhibits your strengths and/or growth as a writer and reader. This document could be a variety of genre; it could be a homework assignment, a journal entry, a single draft of an essay you are not including in another section of your portfolio, a Blackboard assignment, perhaps even a photocopy of annotations on your reading or your written feedback on a peer's essay. Think creatively in this category. Please provide a written explanation of the assignment or context for your "writer's choice" document in your self-assessment essay.

In addition to the items listed above, your final written exam for English 12 will be placed in your portfolio by your teacher.

A few tips and requests from the portfolio readers:

• Please do not staple the entire contents of the portfolio together. This makes it extremely difficult to look through drafts and to look through the portfolio as a whole.

• Please do label everything very clearly--particularly the drafts of your revised essays. We will look at the revision process you engaged in with each essay, so we need to be able to look at your drafts in the order you wrote them.