NHHS Senior Writing

Portfolio

Is an important piece of your portfolio – it is your introduction to your collection

Is scored on an equal basis with the other pieces in the portfolio – it is no less or more important than any of the others

Provides a unifying factor that connects all the pieces in the portfolio

Is an actual friendly LETTER, that uses proper formatting and style

Turns a manila folder of your best pieces into a true portfolio

Is designed for a student to assess him or herself as a writer

Is a letter in which you introduce, justify, critique and/or evaluate your three best pieces, as well as how these pieces display your overall writing growth

An opportunity to praise or criticize Kentucky’s education system

A generic description of stages in the writing process

A generic description of each of the portfolio categories

A thank-you note to express gratitude to the reviewer for assessing your portfolio (although a quick “thank you” at the end is appropriate)

An elaborate table of content listing and/or summarizing every portfolio entry

An evaluation of your teacher A list of unsupported claims about

your improvement as a writer An unrevised, unedited piece

written on the portfolio due date A persuasive essay to convince the

teacher how much you enjoy writing

A description of yourself as a writer, including:A) Goals as a writerB) Progress and growth as a writer

through the yearC) Who or what has influenced the writing

process and growthD) Approaches you used when writing

Discuss the selection of portfolio pieces, including:

A) How you arrived at your selectionsB) Role of the writing folder in portfolio selectionsC) Prewriting/thinking about the topic(s)D) Revision strategies that were helpful

Discuss selection of portfolio pieces, including:

E) Editing strategies that were helpfulF) Kinds of changes made and reasons for those changesG) Influence of teacher/peer conferencing

Any other comments the student wishes to make about his writing over the past four years may be included.

The Letter to the Reviewer… Is the only piece written exclusively for

the portfolio. Students have only one Letter to the

Reviewer, but have several choices regarding other categories and entries – how will you make your letter stand out?