Portfolio Final
I. Writing Reflection (answer in complete sentences)
1. How do the pieces in your portfolio show the ways you have changed and grown as a writer? The pieces in my portfolio show how I have grown just by the way I think and my imagination that I put into my work.
2. What are you goals as a writer? My goals as a writer are to become a better writer so I can do essays and reports a lot easier.
3. How do you think your writing has changed? My writing has changed and got more mature. What do you notice when you look at your earlier work? When I look at my earlier work my ideas are more childlike and my thought jumps allover the place. Later work? My later work is more in line with my thought and my thoughts have grown up.
4. In your Descriptive Essay, copy a sentence in which you feel you were especially descriptive (use of sensory detail/figurative language). Hospitals are huge places with floor after floor of never ending corridors with room after room of sick and afflicted.
5. In your Descriptive Essay, choose a sentence you feel could be re-written to be more descriptive. Copy the original sentence then write the new one. Hospitals are big scarry places. Hospitals are terrifying places that are just like a nightmare.
6. From your Narrative Essay, copy the sentences you used to set off your flashback. Did you make use of the past perfect form of a verb? If not, re-write your sentence using the past perfect form of the verb in the sentence. Not available
7. From your Narrative Essay, copy two sentences that best exemplify your attempts to use vivid verbs? Or, copy two sentences where you could have used vivid verbs rather than the ones you used. Rewrite sentences with new verb choices. Not available
8. Describe how your writing has improved this semester. What was the writing skill in which you saw the greatest improvement? The writing skill that I saw the most improvement was being able to keep on task.
9. What are your strengths? My strengths are my creativity. Weaknesses? My weakness is being able to put my thought on paper.
10.What is the writing skill that you will continue to work on? I will continue to work on everything.
II. Literature Reflection
1. With which character do you most identify? Explain. I identify with boio because he wants to do things but is not allowed.
2. Which heroic attribute do you possess? Draw a parallel between your example and that of one of the characters from the reading. How are you similar? How are you different? I posses the greatest power of all, un matched by any hero before, the power to know right from wrong.
3. Choose a piece of literature from this semester and complete the following:
a. State the main theme. Death is always there.
b. Choose and either copy, or cut and paste a passage that best shows this theme These movements left the condemned man and the sergeant standing on the two ends of the same plank, which spanned three of the cross-ties of the bridge. The end upon which the civilian stood almost, but not quite, reached a fourth. This plank had been held in place by the weight of the captain; it was now held by that of the sergeant
c. Think of a song that is an example of that theme. Cut and paste the lyrics of the song and underline the sections of the song that apply. This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need...of some...stranger's hand
In a...desperate land
Lost in a Roman...wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake...he's old, and his skin is cold
The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here, and we'll do the rest
The blue bus is callin' us
The blue bus is callin' us
Driver, where you taken' us
The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door...and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother...I want to...fuck you
C'mon baby, take a chance with us
C'mon baby, take a chance with us
C'mon baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin' a blue rock
On a blue bus
Doin' a blue rock
C'mon, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end
d. Write a paragraph where you compare/contrast the song and the piece you chose. The song just goes on talking about the end and how it looms over us all while in the story he tries to avoid it yet it still gets him because �this is the end.�
4. Describe an event in your life when you lived up to the �Chivalric Tradition.�
I always live up to chivalric tradition at wrestling tournaments where the coach is the lord and we serve him to the best of our abilitys and treat our enemies with respect.