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Stories help us to make sense of things. For your Personal Superlatives Portfolio, you have selected
important moments from your life and information about yourself, and you have told its story in
creative ways by applying different genres. In a way, you have created a new kind of narrative that
reveals something important about you to your audience, and perhaps to yourself as well. In
essence, you have reconsidered your experiences from a variety of angles, and along the way you
have considered issues of organization, description, detail selection, point of view and audience.
RESEARCH
The main research resource for this assignment is yourself. While it may seem daunting to choose
and write about just one of many significant moments in your life, the activities you will do in and
out of class will help you sift through your history to find a rich story to tell. As you narrow your list
of possible ideas, you may find some real documents or images such as emails, journal entries, or
postcardsthat might enrich the telling of a particular story.
ORGANIZATION
Some authors experiment with headings, genre, and point of view as a way to play with a
traditional, linear plot while still telling a coherent story. For instance, think of the different ways
writers might tell about their last year in high school. If you wanted to use different genres to
organize the story, you might include a conversation in the car, a map of the school, a facebook
profile of your new classmate sitting next to you, a picture of your classroom, a journal entry about
your emotions entering your senior year of high school, an email you wrote to a teacher or guidance
counselor, a text conversation with your best friend, a selfie you took at Homecoming, etc. As this
assignment will show, writers make decisions about organization, focus, and development all the
time.
OPENING LETTER/PROLOGUE/PREFACE: The Reflection
Your portfolio needs to begin with an address to your reader. This address can be written as a
letter, a prologue or a preface. The purpose is to TELL what you SHOW in the narrative. This is
your chance to set up what is to follow. Explain your SO WHAT, WHAT, and HOW. Tell your readers
what you want them to get out of your portfolio. What did you hope to accomplish? What do you
want them to realize or know about you once theyve read your narrative? What genres did you use
and why? What is your repetend/motif and how does it connect your pieces together? Most
importantly, how does your selection of superlatives and your creative genres tell a specific story
about you?The reflection will be used as an introductory frame, in the form of an opening letter.
Ultimately, the purpose of this reflection is to communicate to your audience why this story is
significant in your life, and why you decided to tell it.Think about how everything connects, as this
is how you will create and explain the repetend.
REPETEND
A repetend is a motif or a recurring pattern that serves to link your vignettes together and tell a
specific story about you. Repetend could be a repeated genre, idea, pattern, visual etc. You will be
packaging your portfolio using an image that represents your repetend, or pattern, between your
superlatives - how does everything link together through this one image? Place the repetend at the
bottom of your opening letter/prologue/preface.
No title
Provides little
substantive
information, doesnt
compel reader to read
on, may be overlong
or too brief
Missing
Unifying element
present and
somewhat consistent
throughout pieces,
effective
____Visual Elements/Genres
Unifying element
present but not
particularly effective
or memorable
Missing
Contains few
errors in
grammar,
punctuation,
spelling,
typography
Contains more
than a few errors
but meaning not
seriously affected
Contains enough
errors to the
point of
distraction,
writer, perhaps,
has not
proofread well or
does not have
knowledge of
grammar, usage,
and spelling.
Frequent,
repetitive errors,
a copyediting
disaster
Notes follow
most genres, but
Notes are
missing.
Notes are
informative and