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=PERSONAL PORTFOLIO =

CALENDAR

Now that you have taken the AP exam, I would like us to focus on the college search. In addition to the college search, I would like you to reflect upon the last three years and make goals for next year. Lastly, I would like you to challenge yourselves to learn something new, and unrelated to academics. As you proceed through the process of completing the following steps, please create a wikispace that contains all the pieces of this project and also reflects your individuality and creativity. (I will save the pages until September. You should consider moving the information by that date to your own wiki or another medium.) COLLEGE RESUME Please visit this link for professional advice regarding the writing of college application resumes. [|College App Resume] The purpose of this resume is to market your academic successes. You may, and should, also include any jobs you have held or volunteer services you have provided as these help create a more accurate representation of you.

COLLEGE ESSAY I will provide you with models in class. However, you are to download three applications and take a look at the essay questions. Write **two** college essays. Refer to this site for tips on "how to." [|College Board] The site also provides sample essays. (Navigate through the right-hand side by clicking on "Essay Skills.") You will be asked to follow the advice given in "Three Steps to a Great College Essay."

CREATIVE WRITING SAMPLE The skills you employ in academic writing will be invaluable as you go on to higher education and eventually a career. However, it is equally important that you practice coloring outside the lines, thus exercising your creative writing muscles. For this piece, please write a poem or a fictional piece. This is a challenge piece. Try something new. Do not write haiku. Try a sonnet or a [|villanelle]. [|Poets. org] has many suggestions (forms as well as poems). Or you may write prose. Let your imagination run wild. **Please include a reflective piece that explains your motivation or inspiration.**

THANK YOU MESSAGES The "thank you" note has been replaced by the "thank you" e-mail. :( I would like you to write a note to two people in your life who you do not thank often enough. Tell them why you appreciate them.  REFLECTION/INTRODUCTION Once you have completed all the pieces of this portfolio, I would like you to look through your blue writing folder and think about your high school career and the pieces that you have created for this portfolio and answer the following question: What do you think? What do you see? What do you hope the work in the portfolio reflects about you and who you are as a student and as a human being? This reflection should be on the welcome page of your wiki. Include pictures or images to beautify your space/page.

REMINDER: ALL THE ABOVE MUST BE ORGANIZED IN A WIKISPACE TO BE VIEWED BY ME AND YOUR PEERS ONLY!