Wed Dec. 14
Meet me at 10:00am
Room E-219.
I will only be on campus at this time.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Peer Review Wed/TH
Bring draft 2 of essay 2 or 3.
Make sure your essay has a title, but remove your name.
Bring 2 copies.
Do NOT come to class and then ask if you can go print. Be on time. Bring printed copies to class. On time. :)
Make sure your essay has a title, but remove your name.
Bring 2 copies.
Do NOT come to class and then ask if you can go print. Be on time. Bring printed copies to class. On time. :)
Monday, November 21, 2011
Self-Assessment Essay Instructions
Instructions for the Self-Assessment Essay
English 12 Final Portfolio
In order for your portfolio to be complete and ready for final assessment by outside readers, you must compose and include a self-assessment essay. This essay is the most important document in your portfolio, so it deserves your time and attention. In this essay, your task is to demonstrate that you have met, or haven’t met, the assessment criteria for English 12 as described in the portfolio assessment criteria document. The self-assessment essay should:
• Consider the assessment criteria categories one by one, describing how well you have met these criteria in the writing you have included in the portfolio.
• Make explicit and detailed reference to particular pieces of writing and places within those pieces that provide evidence demonstrating your accomplishments and/or your struggles in a particular area.
• Be brutally honest and straightforward in its description of your progress, accomplishments, and struggles.
• Highlight progress and change through the semester. Make it easy for your reader to see how your essay writing has developed over the course of English 12. No one expects you to be a “perfect” essay writer by the end of the course; instead, we value evidence of your growth as a writer.
• Explain the document you have chosen to include in your “writer’s choice” category (if you have chosen to include something). In order for this document to be valuable to your readers, they need to understand what you are trying to accomplish through the writing and why you have chosen to include it in your portfolio.
• Be an essay—meaning that it should be a focused, cohesive piece of writing in which you argue for your own accomplishments as a writer in English 12.
The self-assessment essay should avoid:
• Flattery of yourself and of your instructor.
• Unsupported and exaggerated claims of growth and change as writers and learners. Any claim you make regarding your growth as a writer must be explicitly supported by evidence drawn from the documents you have chosen to include in the portfolio.
Finally, it is vitally important that you take this self-assessment essay seriously and spend quite a bit of time working on it. It will serve as your readers’ “map” for your portfolio. It may strongly determine what your readers notice and value as they read over your coursework. Please take the time to do meaningful work on this essay before submitting a final version of it in your portfolio.
English 12 Final Portfolio
In order for your portfolio to be complete and ready for final assessment by outside readers, you must compose and include a self-assessment essay. This essay is the most important document in your portfolio, so it deserves your time and attention. In this essay, your task is to demonstrate that you have met, or haven’t met, the assessment criteria for English 12 as described in the portfolio assessment criteria document. The self-assessment essay should:
• Consider the assessment criteria categories one by one, describing how well you have met these criteria in the writing you have included in the portfolio.
• Make explicit and detailed reference to particular pieces of writing and places within those pieces that provide evidence demonstrating your accomplishments and/or your struggles in a particular area.
• Be brutally honest and straightforward in its description of your progress, accomplishments, and struggles.
• Highlight progress and change through the semester. Make it easy for your reader to see how your essay writing has developed over the course of English 12. No one expects you to be a “perfect” essay writer by the end of the course; instead, we value evidence of your growth as a writer.
• Explain the document you have chosen to include in your “writer’s choice” category (if you have chosen to include something). In order for this document to be valuable to your readers, they need to understand what you are trying to accomplish through the writing and why you have chosen to include it in your portfolio.
• Be an essay—meaning that it should be a focused, cohesive piece of writing in which you argue for your own accomplishments as a writer in English 12.
The self-assessment essay should avoid:
• Flattery of yourself and of your instructor.
• Unsupported and exaggerated claims of growth and change as writers and learners. Any claim you make regarding your growth as a writer must be explicitly supported by evidence drawn from the documents you have chosen to include in the portfolio.
Finally, it is vitally important that you take this self-assessment essay seriously and spend quite a bit of time working on it. It will serve as your readers’ “map” for your portfolio. It may strongly determine what your readers notice and value as they read over your coursework. Please take the time to do meaningful work on this essay before submitting a final version of it in your portfolio.
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.
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.
Due Dates
Friday, Nov 25, Noon: Essay 3 Draft 1 (optional)
Monday/Tuesday November 28/29: In-class final exam. No lab.
Wed/TH November 30/December 1: Peer Review Essay 2 or 3, draft 2.
Monday, Dec. 5: Portfolio due.
Get thee a 2 pocket folder, and put your name and my name on the front.
Monday/Tuesday November 28/29: In-class final exam. No lab.
Wed/TH November 30/December 1: Peer Review Essay 2 or 3, draft 2.
Monday, Dec. 5: Portfolio due.
Get thee a 2 pocket folder, and put your name and my name on the front.
Wiki
Hi, Guys.
Because I can't upload files to the blog, I made a wiki!
http://hunteng12.pbworks.com
There are norming session essays for the Classical Argument, as well as the reading for the final, in case you lose yours.
Woot.
Because I can't upload files to the blog, I made a wiki!
http://hunteng12.pbworks.com
There are norming session essays for the Classical Argument, as well as the reading for the final, in case you lose yours.
Woot.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Essay 3
For Essay 3:
Essay 3 is a classical argument of your choice based on our readings in Exploring Language. You choose an issue from the topics we've read and discussed.
For example, we read essays about English as the global language. I want to argue that sign language should be our global language. I'm going to use the readings from Exploring Language to supplement my argument.
You should use 4 sources for this essay. All of which can be from Exploring Language, there are essays on all the topics we didn't use for class.
You can use other sources, but, you have to be able to cite them correctly.
Classical Argument Format:
Introduction: Stylized and Dazzling
Background: Background information, historical information, groundwork (What is the basis of this argument?)
Argument: Probably 2 solid paragraphs
Counter-Argument: a nod to the other side, usually a paragraph
Rebuttal: countering-the counter argument "They have good points, but I'm still right because..." your best arguments should go here.
Conclusion: Stylized and Dazzling
Essay 3 is a classical argument of your choice based on our readings in Exploring Language. You choose an issue from the topics we've read and discussed.
For example, we read essays about English as the global language. I want to argue that sign language should be our global language. I'm going to use the readings from Exploring Language to supplement my argument.
You should use 4 sources for this essay. All of which can be from Exploring Language, there are essays on all the topics we didn't use for class.
You can use other sources, but, you have to be able to cite them correctly.
Classical Argument Format:
Introduction: Stylized and Dazzling
Background: Background information, historical information, groundwork (What is the basis of this argument?)
Argument: Probably 2 solid paragraphs
Counter-Argument: a nod to the other side, usually a paragraph
Rebuttal: countering-the counter argument "They have good points, but I'm still right because..." your best arguments should go here.
Conclusion: Stylized and Dazzling
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