CAP Portfolio

My Role in the World

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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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Assignment/Activity TitleQuarter 1 Live Play Review YearFreshman Skill

Portfolio CategoryCritical Reasoning

Id never seen a legitimate, professional live play before my Live Play Review for freshman year. As interesting as it seemed to me, I never had the drive or reason to commit and view one. When Ms. Jeral asked me to write a review for a live play, I felt outclassed. Most of my classmates had not only seen plays, but also critiqued, directed, and acted in them. I knew that this paper would be a challenge due to my lack of experience and knowledge in theater. The play that I picked to view for my review was Detroit by Lisa DAmour. During the play, I was faced with the immediate problem of taking notes. Having very little idea of what should be noteworthy, I took notes on just about every aspect of the play. Upon sitting down to write, I took my list of notes and picked through them for useful content. Once I got started writing, ideas and critiques just showed themselves to me. I used the directions and prior course material to their fullest, as they provided stable background information from which I could write. Upon viewing the complete product, I felt accomplished for making something despite my lack of prior experience. The review felt especially important to me because I constantly had opinions to share when I was younger, but they were always invalidated and shooed away due to my general lack of experience and preparation. My play review was concise and professional, and it gave me the skills required to share ideas in a professional and presentable manner. This feels appropriate for my portfolio because it exemplifies my ability to overcome difficulties through will. The fact that I watched this play also deepens my knowledge of Theater, and opens me to a whole new realm of discussion and analysis. I feel most accomplished with my paragraph on the character portrayal, because I find it fascinating that physical depiction can influence human perception. I believe that this paper shows my fluency with word choice. The way that I phrased key concepts in my review made me proud when I reviewed them. I felt like I was able to take the feel of a poem and insert into it the information one might see in a newspaper article. I am especially satisfied with my use of repetition when discussing various comedic scenes in the play. That being said, there were some problems with my writing upon reflection. While my paper was very powerful with its diction and wording, it is still weak in the fact that many of the paragraphs were short and were not as packed with information as I would hope it would be. As a writer, I always find struggle balancing my writing being poetically concise and industrially information-packed. It is easy to write things beautifully and say very much with very little, I find. The problem occurs when I compact things so far that it gets to the point where I run out of things to say before Ive written half of what Im supposed to. I then face the problem of having to put in more spread-out information without making it seem like some fluff with no other purpose other than to make my friends impressed when I show them my paper. In my review of Detroit, I leaned a little bit to the poetic and compact side of things, which made the paper look and feel too short for my taste. This is what I feel is the major weakness of my writing. I also regret that I took poor, generally off topic, and disorganized notes. The notes that I took were nondescript, and I had a lot of trouble discerning any meaning from them weeks later when it was time for me to begin writing my draft. This will not be an issue for my next live play review, as I now have the experience to understand how to take good, organized, usable notes. The CAP can do that to you pretty fast, I must say.

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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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