12th Grade

Senior Portfolio Links

• 1.  Download a copy of the High School Portfolio Website Template -  you can use the Google Site template or another website generator that is accessible with your Chromebook.   Be sure to include all of the required pages.

  2.  Update/personalize the website - add personal information, graphics, etc.  

  3.  Update the reflection page for each of the Graduate Profile Skills you have already submitted - (Copy/paste the text from the reflection window to the Graduate Profile Skill Reflection webpage.

  4.  Ensure that you have a reflection and work samples for each of the Graduate Profile skills.  You may use more than one piece of evidence to showcase development of a graduate profile skill.

HIGH SCHOOL PORTFOLIO COMPONENTS

A. The Portfolio Website

Congratulations! You are now a senior at Pleasant Grove High School! The Portfolio documents that you have been diligently creating and collecting since the ninth grade are finally going to be put to use this school year. This year, your English 12 teacher will assist you in completing your Reflective Research Essay, assembling your final Portfolio, and preparing for your oral presentation. At the end of this year, your Portfolio will be examined by the PGHS faculty and staff who will score it based the Portfolio rubric.

Your final Portfolio grade is worth 5% of your Term 2 English 12 grade. Completing this portfolio  and submitting a link to the website  by the assigned due date will make you eligible to complete your Senior Presentation (which is worth 10% of your senior English grade). Conversely, student that do not complete a portfolio, and turn it in by the assigned due date will NOT be eligible to do their Senior Presentation.

You will present your Portfolio at the end of April to a panel of judges consisting of teachers, administrators, parents, and other PGHS staff members. Your final portfolio must contain a reflection window and supporting evidence for each of the graduate profile skills:  Creative Problem Solving, Self-awareness, Sel-reliance, Self-discipline, Technical Literacy, Collaboration & Communication, Community Engagement and Integrity.  

The purpose of the Portfolio:

1. A collection of material that represents student's college/career readiness

2. A guide for the Reflective Research Essay, and High School Portfolio oral presentation

3. Material to be used as a reference for jobs and/or college.

C. The Oral Presentation

The culminating activity for your High School Portfolio will be your presentation. For students that successfully completed, and submitted their Portfolio prior to the due date, will be given an opportunity to give their senior presentation. During the last week in April, you will make a formal presentation about your Portfolio to a panel of PGHS faculty and staff members. Every student in the senior class will be scheduled at 20 minute intervals all day for four days. It is important for you to review the presentation dates with your family and reserve all four dates, because special requests for presentation dates and times will not be considered due to the large senior class. In this presentation, you will describe how your Best Work assignments, CCGI assignments and career research, community service activities, awards, achievements and and newly acquired skills or life-changing experiences support the following categories: growth, strengths, and future goals and plans. You should plan to be rehearsed and professional in your manner, dress, and appearance. Since this is your last big performance of your high school career, shouldn’t it be your most brilliant?

Minimum Requirements of the Oral Presentation:

Your presentation must…

• Be eight to eleven minutes in length, with a five minute question and answer period.

•  Include a visual and/or audio aid to provide physical evidence and support.

• Address each of the following categories growth, strengths, and future plans and goals providing examples of how your course work, experiences, activities and honors completed while attending PGHS supports each category.