Final Portfolio Assignment Sheet

Performance Poetry Portfolio

Due Monday, May 20^th, 2013

As the final assessment for Poetry and Poetic Speech, you will be creating a cumulative portfolio. This portfolio will reflect your experiences and growth over the course of the unit: it will show how this course has affected you.

Assignment: In a binder or folder, you will organize 12 documents which you have gathered during the course.[*] These include (but are not limited to):

·       ‘Final’ drafts of any written work

·       Rough drafts of written works

·       One of your works that you love

·       One of your works that you hate

·       Poems you explicated/analyzed

·       Poems you read which particularly moved you or inspired you

·       Reflections or journal entries

·       Notes

·       Peers’ responses to your work

·       Letters, free-writes, phone messages, text messages, e-mails, Facebook posts, or anything else that contributes to your poetic artistic process

I recommend that you include as much variety as possible—as many different documents as you have. Additionally, you are encouraged to include drafts which demonstrate the progression of your work.

Not everything you include in your portfolio should be of “final draft” quality; in fact, it is better to include marked-up, “rough draft” quality documents. Documents like these better demonstrate that writing is a process, not a product. You will not be graded on the quality of exhibits you include, but rather the relevance of the documents in reflecting your writing process.

Also, you must include the following:

·       A title page with your name and date.

·       A brief reflection on each document. Write one paragraph (50-100 words) as an introduction to each document. Explain how the document demonstrates your growth as a writer, your exposure to new things, or your developing conceptualization of writing. Describe the assignment’s influence on your learning and your process.

·       A brief conclusion (200-250 words) demonstrating how your work this block (specifically, work which you included in the portfolio) functions together to contribute to your broader relationship with writing. Step back and evaluate how you have grown; then, describe that growth.

You will be graded based on the following standards (see the rubric on the following page):

·       Presentation

·       Content: Choice of works

·       Metacognitive reflections

·       Conclusion/self-evaluation

Tips for success on this project:

·       Keep everything! Drafts, journals, assignments, anything. The more you have to work with, the better your portfolio selections will be.

·       Do not wait until the last weekend before this is due. This is an ongoing process.

·       Regardless of what you accomplish day-to-day, try to think about this project and your approach whenever possible.

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[*] This figure does not include documents which the instructor requests be included in the final portfolio.