Portfolio Details

This term’s portfolio has been significantly reduced considering the amount of work done on the research paper process. As a result, the following is your task:

Choose two assignments from the first six items listed below and write/revise them for final submission. All students must complete selection 7, for a total of three pieces to earn a passing grade. You must complete all pieces. The completed portfolio must include all prewriting and rough drafts that demonstrate the writing process. Your portfolio grade, along with your research paper, will be added to a category which is calculated as 40% of your grade. Strive for craft and elegance in your writing and you can earn a higher grade.

1. Open response essay on mood in “The Cask of Amontillado”
2. Open response essay on suspense in “The Most Dangerous Game”
3. Open response essay on character perspective in A Separate Peace
4. Open response essay based on prompts for Night
5. Open response essay on character development in Lord of the Flies
6. An imaginary dialogue between yourself and a literary character from one of readings this term
7. A reflective paper honestly appraising both how you have grown as a writer over the year*

Here is the porfolio rubric which will be used to assess your work. Many of you can really use a boost in your semester grade and this assignment is exactly where you can get it. Both your portfolio and research paper will combine for 40% of your semester grade. Here are a reminder fo the guidelines for submitting:

Guidelines

1. Assemble all items in a bound folder or binder with pockets.
2. All items must be typed and in the standard format (margins: 1” trbl | font: Times New Roman, 12 point | line spacing: dbl).
3. All portfolios must have a cover page with a title, name, class, and date.
4. All final portfolio items should be listed on a table of contents, following the cover page.
5. Include all drafts and work that has led to the final product. Please arrange it so that all prior drafts follow each final draft in the bound portfolio (final – roughs, final – roughs, final – roughs, etc.)

Deadlines:
Period 2: Monday, June 11
Period 4: Friday, June 8
Period 7: Monday, June 11

Lord of the Flies Reading Schedule

As we begin our final novel, you can anticipate reading about four chapters a week to ensure that we finsih the reading and have time for a deeper examination. You are also free to read ahead at your own pace and encouraged to do so. Please just don’t spoil the story or discussion for others.

Period 2 – Read Ch. 3-4 by next class Wednesday, 5-30
Period 4 – Read Ch. 2-3 by next class Tuesday, 5-29
Period 7 – Read Ch. 2-3 by next class Tuesday, 5-29

Everyone should do the following:

• Answer Chapter 2 questions independently
• Complete vocabulary squares for four words from the Chapters 1 & 2 lists

Wrapping-up Night

As part of your assessment on your understanding of Night, you must finish reading the novel independently and prepare for an in-class open response writing assignment. You will be allowed to use any pre-writing (book, notes, outline, etc.), with the exception of a pre-written draft of your response(s). Here are the possible prompts from which you may choose:

1. Dehumanization is the process by which the Nazis gradually reduced the Jews to little more than “things” which were a nuisance to them. Discuss at least three specific examples of events that occurred which dehumanized Eliezer, his father, or his fellow Jews.
2. After Eliezer’s father was beaten by Idek, a Kapo, Eliezer says, “I had watched the whole scene without moving. I kept quiet. In fact I was thinking of how to get farther away so that I would not be hit myself. What is more, any anger I felt at that moment was directed, not against the Kapo, but against my father. I was angry with him, for not knowing how to avoid Idek’s outbreak. That is what concentration camp life had made of me.” Discuss what the last line signifies. Discuss how his attitude changed.
3. Discuss why you think the townspeople remained complacent despite the advance of the German army.
4. Discuss why Eliezer lied to Stein, his relative, about Stein’s family. Discuss whether or not you think he was morally right.
5. Discuss the significance of “night” in the novel.
6. Explain the author’s meaning when he says after the hanging of the youth from Warsaw that “the soup tasted excellent that evening,” yet after the pipel was hanged, “the soup tasted of corpses.”

Period 2: Select three question and prepare for a three separate responses (approx. 5 ¶s 1+ each)
Period 4: Select three question and prepare for a three separate responses (approx. 5 ¶s 1+ each)

Period 7: Select one question and prepare for a single response (approx. 5 ¶s)