PGHS Capstone Project

The PGHS Capstone Project (previously known as the High School Portfolio), is a project dedicated to ensuring our students are prepared for the college/career they wish to embark upon. The PGHS Capstone Project will have students reflect on growth and mastery of key skills desired by employers, and to present evidence of those successes.

Freshman-Juniors

Google Drive Folders - In your freshman year, you will create a folder for each of the six EGUSD Graduate Profile skills:

• Creative problem solving

• Technical literacy

• Community engagement

• Self-awareness, self-reliance, and self-discipline

• Integrity

• Community and collaboration

Throughout all four years, these six folders are where you will place artifacts that you believe represent your growth in these areas. 

Summative Letters - At the end of each year (except your senior year), you will create a letter addressed to the principal in which you discuss your growth in two out of the six Graduate Profile skills. It is up to you which areas of the Graduate Profile you choose to discuss, but you will be expected to explain in detail the events that helped you grow in those areas.  The assignments and artifacts you put in your Google Drive folders throughout the year will help with this task.

Community Service - At Pleasant Grove High School we want all of our students to participate in the bettering of their communities. For this reason, you will do community service, for a number of hours that varies depending on your current year of high school. Between your freshman and sophomore years you must complete a total of ten hours of community service. In your junior year you are expected to complete twenty hours, and in your senior year you are expected to complete twenty-five. 

Seniors

Reflective Research Essay -In your senior year at Pleasant Grove High School you will produce the Reflective Research Paper. This paper will explore your academic growth, your community service experiences, and your emerging future plans. In keeping with PGHS English department standards, the paper must achieve a 1500 word minimum length.  This essay is worth 10% of your second semester English 12 grade. 

Capstone Presentation - The culminating activity will be your Capstone Presentation.  During the last week in April, you will make a formal presentation about your high school journey (similar in content to the Reflective Research Essay) to a panel of PGHS faculty members.  

Google Drive Folders - These will be completed in Advocacy on February 24th

Summative Letters - These will be submitted via a Google Form by Monday, April 7th

Community Service - For 9th-11th grade students, community service hours are due by Monday, May 19th. For seniors, community service hours are due Monday, April 7th. 

Reflective Research Essay - Seniors will submit the Reflective Research Essay to their English classes by March 7th.

Capstone Presentation - Seniors will be presenting Capstone Presentations April 22nd through April 24th. However, seniors must submit a link to their presentation (via Google Forms) no later than the end of the school day on Monday, April 14th.

Yes. The PGHS Capstone Project will appear on your transcript in multiple ways.

Advocacy is a pass/no pass class. In order to receive a passing grade for Advocacy, you will be expected to do two things. For the fall semester, Google Drive Folders will be checked to ensure that artifacts have been added. If additional artifacts are present, you will earn a passing grade. For the spring semester, you will earn a pass for Advocacy if you earn at least a 7/10 on your summative letter. 

Community service appears on your transcript as well as a pass/no pass class. If you meet your required hours for community service each year, you will earn a passing grade. If you are any amount of hours short of the requirement, the grade will be a no pass. Note: due to freshman and sophomore year sharing the ten required hours, there is no community service grade for freshman year.