Semester-End Assessment: Semester Portfolio & Symposium- A Capstone Experience
What's the Semester Portfolio?
Semester-End Assessment: Semester Portfolio & Symposium- A Capstone Experience
What's the Semester Portfolio?
Your semester portfolio is a site you create to offer evidence of competency as a self-directed learner, critical thinker, creative thinker, and problem solver. (This represents competencies 2 & 3.)
In the week leading up to SEA Week...
Click here to create a copy of the semester portfolio template and save it to your Junior English course folder. (It's essential that it goes in this folder.)
Select a theme for your portfolio and apply it to all pages.
Follow the directions embedded on each page in your portfolio template.
Complete this portfolio (aside from the On-Demand Essay) before you come to your two hour SEA block.
Resources
Canva Template
If you're looking for some help with CANVA, click here for a Literary Works Template.
Where do you get images from?
Britannica ImageQuest - great artwork and credit/citation information already done for you.
Google Images - to cite this, add the creator's name (last, first), the title of the image, website name, date you accessed the image, and URL.
Personal Photo- to cite this, you add your name, a short description of the photo, and the date the photo was taken. For example: Winchester, Dottie. Photograph of Bookcase. 9-24-2024.
What's a performance reflection?
A performance reflection is a short piece of writing which offers the writer space to think about:
- what went well or didn't go well with a specific task (reader's response, summative assessment, nature journal entry etc.)
- how performance can be improved or repeated to ensure success in remediation or the next time around.
SAMPLE Performance Reflection for Summative Assessment
Performance Reflection
Now that I have finished my third and final essay test response for the semester, the essay test on Moby Dick, I can see how I did well with interpreting the novel. Unlike my first two essay tests, I now understand how to place a passage in context. This is something I struggled with last semester and the key seems to be my reader's response. I finally have a way of writing those responses so that I'm including context when I write about a passage or story element. This is like doing "advance work" for future summatives.
SAMPLE Performance Reflection for Formative Work
Performance Reflection
I'm working on finding a balance with my reader's responses. I'm trying to ask more questions as I read and really have a dialog with the book. The passages I'm identifying are ones I hope to use in a discussion and/or a possible summative. Having an idea of which summative I want to do next is shaping what I am looking for as I read. What I need to work on is identifying connections. Those will also help with a future summative so it's like I'm getting some of that work done in advance.