Writing Portfolio

For the Writing Portfolio, you will create your own Google Site and post the following assignments that you will complete throughout the quarter. Be creative!

You will create a GOOGLE SITE and personally style your portfolio. This site you make will be titled Firstname.Lastname's Writing Portfolio (Example: DebbieDalen'sWriting Portfolio). Turn in when finished on Google Classroom. See Assignment List for Google Classroom link.

Organize your entries and posts as you like, but so that they are titled and easy to find.

Google sites can be found in your google apps by clicking on the waffle when you are logged into your learn account. We will do a tutorial on how to set this up during the first week of classes. Example Site

Assignment 1: All About You. Who are you?

(Direct instruction at the NE campus we did the mindmap "What do you want to achieve this quarter?" and the following test found at this site: https://www.16personalities.com/)

Write a letter that tells your readers (just me...) who you are, what makes you you, how you are as a learner, what your goal is for the course and what your plans are for next year. Also, include anything that I should know about you that will make me better able to help you as a learner and in-turn make me a better facilitator for your learning. Create a section in your Google Site for this Entry: All About Me.

Assignment 2: Maslow Analysis and Myers-Briggs Personality Test

Response 2: Character Analysis

Watch the Maslow video at the bottom of the page in Part 2 Short Story. Select a character from one of the short stories in Part 1 and explain what level they are on Maslow's pyramid of needs. Use specific supporting evidence (can be a quote or specific moment explained) from the text to back up your statement.

www.16personalities.com/

2C. Click on the above link to complete your Myers-Briggs Personality survey - if you'd rather not complete this on yourself pick a literary character to do it for. Add to writing entry for 2.

Response 2B: Maslow Analysis

What is it we really want in life? What makes us happy? Abraham Maslow sought to answer these questions (pretty good objective really!) and came up with a simple and straightforward model of how to attain happiness and satisfaction in life. Watch the video below and then complete the assignment that comes after it.

Response : Reflect and then explain where you think you are on the pyramid and what you think it will take to attain happiness in your life using the ideas in the video. This involves some reflection and focus on what self-actualization could look like for you. Link the levels to what you have experienced in life and use your lived experience ( that you care to share ) as evidence. The personal values assessment will help as well to understand this.

Assignment 3: Word of the day: Languishing. Read the following article and write a response to the ideas expressed there. Were your experiences during this pandemic similar or different? Contribute to the idea with your own anecdotal experience and support in a personal response paragraph. Add a photo to your post to communicate your idea visually.

There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called LanguishingThe neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.

Piqued your interest? There's actually a lot written about Revenge Bedtime Procrastination. HERE IS ONE LINK... if you are redirected, click on the URL provided.

Writing Portfolio Entry 4: Cognitive Dissonance

What is an example of cognitive dissonance in a story you have read in short stories?

How does the character resolve the dissonance. Explain fully. Use the terms from the video.

Assignment 5: Diversity and Bias

The danger of a single storyOur lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

Assignment 5:

For Reflection only: Look at the diversity wheel and consider the short stories you have read. Think of how the issues in the wheel appear in the conflicts in the texts we have read.
For reflection only: Complete the Implicit Association Test and reflect on the results and how you perceived the test.
Watch Chimamanda Adichie's talk. Write a brief response on what the "danger of a single story" is and any experience you have had with it in your life. When you write your personal response use narrative story telling techniques. Include dialogue!

Assignment 6:

Changing education paradigmsIn this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools' dwindling stake in the arts, and ADHD. An important, timely talk for parents and teachers.

a. Divergent thinking test. Time yourself for 4 minutes and see how many uses you can think of for a paper clip? Be creative and list as many as you can!

b. After listening to the talk (Changing Education Paradigms on the left) what points by Sir Ken Robinson resonate with you considering your own school experience. Connect your own school experience with the ideas in the video.

Assignment 7: Memoirs

Read one of the short memoirs here: https://bookriot.com/short-memoirs/

What techniques did the author use to create realism and bring you into the story?

What was the main idea of the memoir?

Assignment 8. Featured Writer of the week.... HANIF ABDURRAQIB

Assignment: find an online article by Abdurraqib that catches your interest. Get comfortable. Read the article. Then complete the assignment below...

A.In a paragraph response: State his main idea/argument/thesis.

B. Paraphrase his article.

C. Add any new vocabulary that you glean from the article to your vocab page.

Articles by Hanif AbdurraqibArticles by Hanif Abdurraqib

Hanif Abdurraqib – MediumRead writing from Hanif Abdurraqib on Medium. Poet. Writer. | Poetry editor @MuzzleMagazine | Author of The Crown Ain't Worth Much & They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us. | Ohioan.

A Night In Bruce Springsteen's AmericaHanif Willis-Abdurraqib goes to a stop on The River Tour.

Assignment 10

Writing Portfolio 9 entry: What the video above "The Peace of Wild Things." What is the single story of nature that you have been given through your experience with texts (novels, stories, books...) and media (t.v. film, music) Reflect first on how our view of the natural world is constructed in our minds.

Points to add to your reflection / personal writing

What is your experience with the natural world and does it conflict with how others see it?
How do you feel nature is portrayed in school?
How is nature portrayed in society?
Do these portrayals sometimes come into conflict with each other
AND most importantly what do you think?? Based on your own lived experience. Provide some for evidence.

Thoughts for consideration...eco criticism:

How is nature represented in this text?
How has the concept of nature changed over time?
How is the setting of the play/film/text related to the environment?
What is the influence on metaphors and representations of the land and the environment on how we treat it?
How do we see issues of environmental disaster and crises reflected in popular culture and literary works?
How are animals represented in this text and what is their relationship to humans?
How do the roles or representations of men and women towards the environment differ in this play/film/text/etc.
Where is the environment placed in the power hierarchy?
How is nature empowered or oppressed in this work?
What parallels can be drawn between the sufferings and oppression of groups of people (women, minorities, immigrants, etc.) and treatment of the land?
What rhetorical moves are used by environmentalists, and what can we learn from them about our cultural attitudes towards nature?

Writing Portfolio 11: Film Choice

Film Choices: Pick one.

Try and watch one you haven’t seen before.

Criterion on Demand:

Student Login:

Username: 9220806

Password: stanStu

IMBD parent guides - read them for any parts that you may find triggering or inappropriate

Choices:

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Million Dollar Baby

Shawshank Redemption

Casablanca

Assignment:

Title: Name of idea in Name of Film.

Look at the film through the lens of one of the big ideas we explored in class (Bad Faith, Cognitive Dissonance, Plato’s Cave, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Values and Inclusion.

Write a paragraph response (page) detailing the connection of the idea in the film as it relates to the idea in the videos we have watched. Use supporting evidence from the film to support your idea. Use filmic elements to show how the film maker developed the idea.

Assignment 12

PRUFROCK: Pick a line - your favourite and explain why?

Assignment 13

A few more poems... pick ONE poem from the selection below. Complete the TP-CASTT sheet for that poem.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996 was awarded to Wislawa Szymborska "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality".

TPCASTT Handout

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