CAP Portfolio

My Role in the World

Senior Junior 7 Sophomore 7 Freshman 7

Critical Social Media & Advanced Reasoning Awareness Communications Exhibitions

Critical Reasoning: Assignments in this category require that students deeply analyze an issue or topic and examine both their own and others beliefs and perspectives. o How does this assignment help me better understand my thinking and question those ideas I believe to be true? Social Awareness: Assignments in this category help students gain a better understanding of the environment and world around them and help them attain greater capacity to affect change in their community. This category has been combined with Ethics and Values. o How does this assignment help me learn more about society and provide me an opportunity to promote positive change within my community? o How does this assignment help me better understand my values and the role they play in the decisions I make? Media and Communications: Assignments in this category reflect an understanding of medias role in shaping our society, and/or how mass communication can enrich or limit society. o How does this assignment help me understand Medias influence? To what extent does the Media shape our values? Advanced Exhibitions: Assignments or activities in this category are ones that are generally beyond the traditional classroom setting and showcase individual and unique student talents or interests. Exhibitions may be academically based, or completely outside the classroom. Students are required to showcase one different Advanced Exhibition per year, for a total of three. o How does this activity enrich my life and the lives of those around me?

All assignments submitted for consideration must include a reflection (see attachment). Gradelevel teachers will approve all portfolio submissions.

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Writing Media Creative Literature Research Group Dynamics Public Performance Assignment/Activity:

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Writing Media Creative Literature Research Group Dynamics Public Performance

Writing Media Creative Literature Research Group Dynamics

Writing Media Creative Literature Research Group Dynamics Public Performance

Assignment/Activity Title Live Play Review Skill Writing

Year Freshman Portfolio Category Media and Communications

For my live play review, I decided to watch The Laramie Project, which describes the town of Laramie after a young, gay man was murdered there. The play really made me think about how I see the world compared to how others view it, and how this relates to my everyday life. The performance made me reflect on my own everyday thoughts and actions, and its unique format helped with this. Each actor in the play was more than just one person, portraying multiple people. The most interesting part was that almost the entire play was composed of actual quotes, and the characters portrayed were actual, live people in this town of Laramie. The play itself was very entertaining and interesting, and I am so glad this is the play I ended up watching. The live play review really helped me sort out my feelings and put all of my thought and emotions down on paper. The review also made me sit down and think about what I had seen instead of just watching the play and taking it for face value. I was able to appreciate what each actor and stage crew members had done, and I was able to see how much hard work had been put into the production when I was paying attention to it. The process that I took for writing this piece was also different from the process that Ive taken for writing different types of assignments, such as essays and paragraphs. The paly review was more about my own opinion rather than an objective topic that I had to back up with textual evidence. Instead of finding facts in the play and using them to write a cohesive review, I had to think about what I personally liked and disliked about the play, and how this was shown throughout the play. I have never written a play review, so it was a bit strange for me to try out a new format of writing that I have never really tried before. I really did enjoy writing this piece, and it shows in the quality of the writing. This is part of the reason why it is important to include this piece of writing in my portfolio. Because the play review has a subject that is very important to me, this shows in how passionate I am about what I wrote. This passion is also shown in the quality of the writing. One of my favorite parts of this play review is the ending, where I discuss how people often perceive those around them as different from who they actually are, or as objects and not people. The Laramie Project, as well as my play review, showed how this is not a good thing, and this subject is something that I believe is very important and should be talked about more. I very much enjoyed writing my play review for The Laramie Project, and I am very proud of the review I wrote for it. Heavy subjects, such as the unfair treatment of gays that the play and my review discussed ought to be talked about more often throughout homes and schools, so it is very important that this review is included in my portfolio.

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Assignment/Activity Title SkillWriting, Media, Research.

YearFreshman, Sophomore PortfolioCritical Reasoning, Ethics.

Metacognitive ReflectionThe following questions ARE NOT A SCRIPT!! Use the ideas within the questions to reflect on the assignment and its significance to you. Your reflection MUST use Times New Roman font, size 11, single spacing

How does this assignment reflect your growth in the category in which you are placing it? How have you changed as a result of this assignment? Why is it important to include this piece in your portfolio? How and where does this fit in with your prior knowledge? How do you think that others will react to this product? What process did you use to complete the product? What did you learn by doing this assignment? How does the portfolio product illustrate the connection(s) you've made between yourself and the course material? In what ways would you do things differently if you could do it over again? What did you discover about yourself? How does it relate to your future? How does it illustrate your strengths and/or weaknesses? What obstacles and challenges did you have to deal with, and how did this struggle change you? How does the portfolio product show that your perspective on the world has deepened? How does it relate to your understanding of the world around you? Which of your accomplishments makes you feel most proud?

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