Our Portfolio Project: Bringing It All Together

Part of learning a language is immersing yourself. This means surrounding yourself with that language and using it rather than memorizing and translating it. To accomplish this goal, we have combined projects in our classes to assure what you’re learning and working on in one class continues in your other classes. 

This immerses you because you use your background knowledge, language skills and vocabulary in reading, writing, listening, speaking and grammar, which are the main ways we learn and use language – and the core classes you’re taking at the ELC.

Below are descriptions of the various projects you’ve completed and will revise and package for your “Portfolio Project.” We will host this portfolio on our blogs and link all the pieces together to make it coherent. All elements are tied together to the topic/issue you’ve done for your argument paper, so in effect you are presenting your knowledge on that topic using the various assignments we’ve done in class.

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Piece 1: Argument Paper

After your final draft, make revisions and post into blogger. Be sure to provide at least ONE picture from a royalty-free Web site. After the introduction, add a jump to encourage reader interest and avoid people skipping over your essay. Finally, make sure the presentation is “handsome” meaning the picture is aligned left or right and not too big. Also, make sure there aren’t huge gaps between paragraphs, and that paragraphs are in an appropriate font, size and color.

Piece 2: Vocabulary Study

For this topic, pick FIVE words you believe are important to understanding the topic. Make a post where you include the word, its various forms, pronunciation, definition and a sample sentence. Like all posts, make sure it is formatted and presented “handsomely.” J

Piece 3: Annotated Bibliography:

These are source citations with summaries. You’ve written two summaries for your topic, so simply provide the citation above them and post them into Blogger.

Piece 4: Spoken Introduction Video:

This post will be the last one and the one that ties everything together. We will make a video or a sound bite where you discuss your topic, what you read and what your opinions of the issues are. This should not be the same as the essay or other elements of your Portfolio, and, in fact, should be broader and more conversational.

Below where you post your video should be a contents page where you link to the other Genres listed above.