Final Portfolio (20% of total grade)
For your Final Portfolio, you will include selections from your original class work as well as additional assignments that require you to assess your performance in this class, improve on some of your previous work, and develop one new assignment, a Future Self Narrative. You do need to type up any of your handwritten in-class work, but your Future Self Narrative must be typed. Gather your work together in any kind of folder, binder or paper clip you wish. However, you will not earn more points for any extra work included in your portfolio or for attractive covers. Your grade will be earned exclusively for the content of your portfolio, organized in a neat and orderly way. Your Final Portfolio must include the following:

● In-class Exercises – 5 selections from your in-class exercises or assignments (freewrites, group exercises, debates, etc.) that represent your best work and 1-3 sentences for each exercise discussing its strengths;

● Blog – 5 selections from your electronic forum postings that represent your best work and 1-3 sentences for each posting discussing its strengths;

● Peer Reading Discussion – Your notes for both portions of your Peer Reading Discussions, along with 3-5 sentences discussing their strengths and 3-5 sentences discussing what you could have improved;

● Future Workbook – All four of your assignments for you Future Workbook, your Progress Check sheets, along with 3-5 sentences discussing the strengths and 3-5 sentences discussing what you could have improved for each of the assignments;

● Future Self Narrative – For this new assignment, write a semi-autobiographical narrative of your own life up to this point that extends to what you envision for your life in the future; 8 pages minimum length. To do this write about key parts of your past that have led you to who you are now, what aspects of who you are now you plan to carry into the future, and what you think you would be or do to achieve your own ideal or preferable future. Consider not only your own personal and professional future goals, but also how your personal future might connect with the future of humanity or the social community. Additional ways to think about this narrative may be found on our course website in the Final Portfolio section.