Portfolio 1 Portfolio 2 Portfolio 3 Portfolio 4 Portfolio 5
Portfolio 6 Portfolio 7 Portfolio 8 Portfolio 9 Portfolio 10
Portfolio 1 (30 Points)
Choosing to be a University Student
Reflect on your life before entering Ohio State. Consider the choices you have made and the people who have influenced those choices. Focus on those choices that have led you to be a university student. In no less than two double-spaced pages using a size 12 point font, write an essay that answers the question, “What choices have led me to be a university student?”
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Portfolio 2 (30 Points)
Applying the Strategies
Think about the problems and challenges Cedric has faced so far in A Hope in the Unseen, Chapters 1-3. Look for examples of the four strategies and their sub strategies in action: Take Reasonable Risk (Go for the Goal & Bite-Size Pieces), Take Responsibility (Think Positive & Plan), Search the Environment (Just Ask & Visualize It), and Use Feedback (Keep Track & Tell Yourself).
Write about 4 situations in which the strategies and their substrategies were used or could have been used to Cedric's benefit. Fore each one, you must have a detailed description of the situation and explain clearly how Cedric used or could have used one or more of the strategies in that situation. Your paper should discuss all 4 of the strategies and their substrategies.
Grading Guidelines:
1. Did you write about 4 situations? Did you include enough details for each situation that the reader could understand the problem or challenge Cedric was facing? 10 points
2. Did you include all 4 strategies in your paper? Did you explain clearly in each of your situations how Cedric used or could have used the strategy or strategies? 10 points
3. Is your paper correctly formatted? That is, is it at least two pages in length, double spaced, and written in a size-12 font? 5 points
4. Is your paper “reader friendly”? That is, did you use a Spellchecker for spelling errors and read your paper aloud (or have a friend read it to you) to check for good grammar usage and clarity of your ideas? 5 points
Portfolio 3 (30 points)
To Do Checklist
For this portfolio you will make five daily To Do Checklists. This activity requires you to: (1) Write 5 headings, each corresponding to each day of the week. (2) Under each heading list at least 3 activities that you need to accomplish for that day. For example, Monday is the first heading; under this heading there must be 3 or more academic activities that need to be accomplished. The second heading could be Tuesday with the 3 or more corresponding academic activities, and so on. (3) This must be done for at least 5 days out of the week.
All academic activities must follow these general rules:
(1) The academic activities should cover all of the courses you are taking.
(2) No item on the list may take more than one hour. (If you have to do something longer, break it down into shorter tasks.)
(3) Every task on the list must start with a specific verb.
(4) Every task must be specific and measurable, so that you know when you have completed it.
(5) Each day’s activities must have at least 3 academic tasks.
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Portfolio 4 (30 points)
A Success Story
Write about an actual academic experience you have had where
you were faced with a challenge and you were successful. This should be an
accomplishment of which you are proud.
Describe in detail the situation and circumstances as if
you were writing a story for a magazine. Make yourself the central character.
Write about your thoughts and feelings, your behavior, and how others reacted to
you. Make it clear how your thoughts influenced your feelings and behavior.
Make reference to the information presented in Module 4.
Your story should be at least two double-spaced pages in a 12-point font.
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Portfolio 5 (30 points)
Portfolio 5. A Matter of Judgment*
Imagine that you are planning to go home for a few days during break week and you ask your neighbor in the apartment house you live in to take in your mail and your newspapers while you are gone. In return, you offer to drive her to the grocery when you get back (she doesn’t have a car), and she agrees. But when you get back from your trip, your newspapers and all your accumulated mail are piled up outside your door. It also looks like someone may have tried to get into your apartment when you were gone. You go to your neighbor to find out what happened. She apologizes and says she hadn’t been able to get out of bed since you left because she got sick. You notice that she looks a little done in. But later, another neighbor tells you that people had been going in and coming out of her apartment nonstop while you were gone, and maybe your neighbor had been too busy partying with friends to watch your place.
Identify three different causal explanations you might think up to
help you understand and deal with the situation, the feelings that each
would cause you to have, and the behaviors likely to follow each.
Show how each of the three thought-feeling-action patterns relate to the
ideas of controllability and responsibility,
that is, how each of the three differ or are the same in these respects.
Indicate which of the three behaviors you would choose to follow and why,
based on your answers to the first two parts of this question.
*Note: This portfolio is different from the one
listed in the LMS textbook.
Grading Guidelines
Portfolio 6 (30 points)
Choose a set of lecture notes written in a particular class. The lecture notes can be any notes that you have taken from a particular instructor’s lecture in any course you are currently enrolled in or have previously been enrolled in. This assignment requires that you develop a Question-Answer outline from this material. The actual assignment requires you to do three things: (1) Type out the lecture notes for which you are going to write the Question-Answer outline. (2) For each of the typed pages of notes type at least 3 Reflection questions, 1 Recap question, and 1Reasoning question. Reflection questions should be labeled as RF, Reasoning questions should be labeled as RS, and Recap labeled as RC. Type all of these questions, a total of 20, on a sheet of paper. (3) On the lecture notes underline the content that correspond to the questions that you have written and write the question number next to the appropriate answer.
YOUR PORTFOLIO SHOULD INCLUDE THE TYPED PAGES OF 20 QUESTIONS, YOUR TYPED CLASS NOTES WTH THE ANSWERS UNDERLINED AND CLEARLY NUMBERED.
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Portfolio 7
(30 points)
You will be given an attachment by the instructor via email titled "Portfolio 7 Book Notes". This assignment requires that you develop a Question-Answer outline from this material. In order to do this you have to open the attachment, and then save it with your first name and last name to a hard drive or disk. The actual assignment requires you to do two things: (1) For each of the headings, type a recap question. For each paragraph or pair of paragraphs type a reflection question. For the overall passage, type two reasoning questions. Type all of these questions, a total of 30, on a sheet of paper. (2) On the Portfolio 7 book notes document underline the sentences or heading that correspond to the questions that you have written and write the question number next to the appropriate answer.
YOUR PORTFOLIO SHOULD INCLUDE THE TYPED PAGES OF 30
QUESTIONS, AND THE PORTFOLIO 7 BOOK NOTES WITH THE ANSWERED UNDERLINED AND
CLEARLY NUMBERED.
Portfolio 8 (30 points)
Organizing
for Tests
There is an attachment, emailed to you by your instructor, that will guide you through this portfolio.
Write a recap question. Then, create a CC Web Chart that
covers all of the information necessary to answer that recap question.
Write an essay question that covers some or all of the
material covered in Portfolio 7. Create a Skeleton Key Diagram that could help
you answer the question.
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Portfolio 9 (30 points)
1. Your instructor will email you an article from a news magazine.
2. Closely read the article.
3. Write a Recap Question for the whole article.
4. Write three or more recap questions for the article.
5. Write three or more reflection questions for each of the recap questions.
6. Organize these questions into an outline that looks like the one on pages 156-157 of the ILM course packet. This is to be turned in as part of the portfolio.
7. Create a Skeleton Key Diagram for the whole article. This is to be turned in as part of the portfolio.
8. Turn in with your assignment the URL web link of the article with the portfolio.Grading Guidelines
Portfolio 10 (30 points)
Grading Guidelines
Portfolio 12. Preparing for Your Future (Bonus)
Reminder: This portfolio is optional for those students who wish to earn extra credit points.
When exploring careers, you’ll want to know more about the jobs than the Internet, brochures, or counselors can tell you. It is important to know what a particular job is like from the viewpoint of people who currently work in that type of job. Choose one job that you find interesting and about which you’d like more information. Interview a person who is currently employed in that type of job. Write a two-page paper (at least 500 words) including the following parts:
1. A brief description of the career explored (at least one paragraph).
2. The name of the person interviewed. (You need only interview one person in the chosen career area.)
3. Contact information for the person interviewed (telephone number or e-mail address).
4. The person’s responses to the following questions:
a. What is a typical day of work like? (“What do you do during a typical day?)
b. What kind of education and experience are needed to obtain the job?
c. What are the best and worst aspects of the position?
d. How much and what kind of responsibility does the job require?
e. How easy is it to advance in the career?
5. The person’s responses to at least three other questions about which you are curious.
Monitor Your Writing
1. Did you include a description of the career and the name and contact information for the person interviewed? 3 pts
2. Did you include answers to the 5 questions given above and 3 of your own questions? 24 pts
3. Is your paper of the proper length, correctly formatted, and “reader friendly”? 3 pts
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