Second Semester Portfolio Project

The General Learner Outcomes Presentation Portfolio

Purpose:  This portfolio will help you reflect on your work in all your MeneMAC classes for the entire year.  In it, you will make connections between your activities and culminating assessments throughout the year and the ultimate goal of education in Hawaii, the General Learner Outcomes.  You will document the projects and activities that you feel provide the best evidence that you have met those six learner outcomes.

The Hawaii General Learner Outcomes

1. Be responsible for one's own learning
2. Understand that it is essential for human beings to work together 
3. Be involved in complex thinking and problem solving

4. Recognize and produce quality performance and quality products
5. Communicate effectively with a variety of audiences for a variety of purposes
6. Use a variety of technologies effectively and ethically

Portfolio & Presentation

1. Portfolio Format
1. An introduction to the portfolio itself that sets your purposes for the presentation portfolio and describes your experiences this past year in the MeneMAC integrated learning center program.
2. A conclusion that describes your possible goals—educational and career, thus far in your high school experience (link to college and career websites)
3. Evidence for each GLO

                                               i.     Minimum of two varied pieces of evidence linked per GLO

                                             ii.     Explanation of each piece. Very important—this is the documentation that explains, clearly and articulately, why you have met each general learner outcome and how the evidence proves it

4. Presentation portfolio should be linked from your blog and should contain a growth-based theme

                                               i.     Overall design, layout, and graphics should support your portfolio metaphor

                                             ii.     Directory structure and navigation should be clear and intuitive

                                            iii.     Appropriate and effective graphics should illustrate your artifacts

2. Directions for portfolio
1. Go through the Hawaii General Learner Outcomes listed above and fill in the worksheet.
2. Explain each of the outcomes in your own words.
3. Find support in your activities or products in the learning center that proves that you have attained each of the outcomes. List your examples and support on the worksheet.
4. Be sure that you provide a variety of evidence (some online, some print, some video, etc.)
5. Explain each piece of evidence, relating it to the outcome you have met.
3. Directions for presentation
1. Parent Presentation: 

                                               i.     Post an invitation on your blog, with the portfolio link.

                                             ii.     Share your portfolio with your parent or guardian.

                                            iii.     Have your parent/guardian respond to this question as a comment on your blog: “What did you learn about your child’s achievements and experiences in MeneMAC this past year?”

2. ALL MUST BE COMPLETED BY Tuesday May 20

** YOU MAY USE wix.com, webs.com, or weebly.com**

The Impact of the Media

Assignment

• With a partner, research and gather three different resources that are of media related (news article/magazine add). One of the sources must discuss the impact media has on people and one other must be a visual resource, the last can be of your choice.
• After gathering your three resources and discussing with your partner, individually take a position on how the media affects how we live our lives and the society as a whole.
• Practice citing the three sources that you have gathered with your partner to support your opinion. Use the format of citing sources that you have learned from earlier practice when using direct quotations.
• Use at least two direct quotations and cite visual resource at least one.
• Please be thorough in your written discussion.

Macbeth Essay Assignment

Macbeth by William Shakespeare holds many different themes that we have discussed through assignments in class. Some themes inlcude the pursuit of power, power is the root of all evil, it doesn't matter how you got there as long as you reached your goal.  Now I want you to select or produce a theme that you feel holds the most connection to the novel and do a literary analysis essay on the theme of Macbeth. You may use all the notes you have to complete the essay. Remember to follow the five paragraph essay including:

·       Intro and thesis statement (stating what the theme is)

·      Three supporting paragraphs (Chunky paragraphs for each).

·      Conclusion

*Please remember to be thorough in your discussion, using in-text evidence with appropriate citation, strong thesis and a conclusion that has your overall lasting impression on the chosen topic.

Rough Draft due Monday begining of class on blog. 

Macbeth pre-reading work

Macbeth Anticipation Guide

Directions: Read the following statements. Write if you agree or disagree.  Write two sentences and a personal experience to support your thoughts about each statement. There are no right or wrong answers! 

1.     Behind every great man is a great woman (every great man is supported, guided, helped and even pushed by a great woman).

2.     Witches, demons, and evil spirits actually exist.

3.     Sometimes it is necessary to do something wrong to get what you want.

4.     What goes around comes around (karma).

5.     Human beings are easily tempted by things they want, even if it’s wrong.

6.     If someone feels that the ruler/s of his/her country is destroying the country, that person should try to overthrow the ruler/s.

7.     There are circumstances or events that justify murdering someone.

8.     Success is worth any price you have to pay.

9.     Kings are appointed by God, and they rule as His representatives on Earth.

10.  Your astrological forecast (your horoscope) is a good indicator of how your day will go.

11.  Traitors should be executed.

Once you are done with a partner look at the following questions and answer them together. Your answers need to be in complete sentences and you need to provide what you and your partner discussed. PROVIDE AT LEAST A PARAGRAPH PER ANSWER. Please list who your partner is. 

1. Is evil inherent in human nature? That is, are some people just “born evil,” or is evil caused by circumstance or environment? 
2. Are our lives determined by fate, or by the acts of our free will? 
3. Is redemption truly possible? That is, is it possible to commit an act of genuine evil and truly recover from it? 
4. Is it possible to admire or respect a person whom you know has committed acts of genuine evil? 
5. Do “the ends justify the means”? That is, if one uses morally evil methods to acquire a goal, is that goal forever tainted or polluted by the actions one has taken to achieve it? 

PLEASE POST ALL ANSWERS ON INDIVIDUAL BLOG AND LABEL "MACBETH PRE-READING WORK." THIS IS DUE AT THE END OF THE CLASS. 

LC Reader Response #3

This is an individual assignment, but you may discuss the questions with others in your team.  Be sure that whatever answers you come up with are written in your own words.

1. Write 2 thesis statements for which you could write well-supported literary analysis essays. Remember when analyzing the literature we are always trying to determine the meaning of the literature. It is not a summary or you repeating what is already known. So in the thesis you need to tell us something that you can prove through evidence from the book. You need to write two thesis statements based off these literary elements:

1. Theme (i.e., Humanity to many come as a natural habit, in the novel "Night" inhumanity is proven to be something that can never ne justified).
2. Character (i.e., The holocaust is something that is imaginable, for survivor Elie Wiesel he is the true definition of hope and faith in the beauty of life.)

Group Reader Response LC#2

Group Reader Response LC #2:  Dialectical Journal Practice

This is an individual assignment, but you may discuss the questions with others in your team.  Be sure that whatever answers you come up with are written in your own words.

1. Critical Stance:  Wiesel chronicles the gradual dehumanization of the prisoners.
1. First, define “dehumanization”
2. Then, describe the behavior of the various prisoners that shows their gradual transformation from their normal behavior as human beings.
3. Last, describe the behavior of Eliezer, the changes that he notices and his response to them.
2. Dialectical Journal Entries

1. Find quotations for each of the comments you have made in question #1
2. Share these amongst group members so that you each have a complete DJ upon which you can rely for the following weeks’ discussions.

Group Reader Response LC#1

Group Reader Response LC #1: Dialectical Journal Practice

This is an individual assignment, but you may discuss the questions with others in your group. Be sure that whatever answers you come up with are written in your own words.

1. Critical Stance:
1. Discuss how Wiesel sets up the contrast between the panic of the Jews with each new decree or action of the government and their attempts to reassure themselves and to adjust to each new infringement on their freedom.
2. Dialectical Journal Entries

1. Find five direct quotations from the book that you feel is important to the story and provide each with you rown commentary.
2. You may use the same quotes as other group members but not all can be the same, and your comments must be different that other group members' comments.

Introductory Assignment for "Night"

With your partner, research and reflect on man's inhumanity to man and man's humanity.
You may browse the StopGenocideNow website or find other instances of both inhumanity AND humanity and share your responses.
Please include the following:

1. Your name and your partner's name
2. The source(s) of your information; include a clickable link.
3. Details or stories from your research that will help us, as a class, to explore the idea of "humanity."