E-Portfolio Requirements

Layout: professional with appropriate graphics

Profile: appropriate information and photo

Writing: HD level 1 quality

Posts:
1. Procedure: How to Fail the Portfolio
2. Procedure: The Hajj
3. Narration: Accident in the Desert
4. Narration: Ramadan Story
5. Process: Your choice
6. Process: Your choice
7. Comparison/Contrast: Your choice
8. Comparison/ Contrast: Your choice
9. Reflective Essay

Comments: Useful suggestions for all team members’ posts except the Reflective Essay.

Reflections on English 125

Introduction: Describe your overall experience with this course this term, especially as it relates to your writing, your blog/e-portfolio and your participation as a blog team member.

Body Paragraph 1: What was best for your writing in this course? What helped you the most? What did you do that contributed to your improving as a writer?

Body Paragraph 2: What was the most challenging for you in the writing portion of this course? What do you need to work on the most? What did you do to help yourself through these challenges?

Conclusion: Assess your performance in this course. What could you do in the future to help yourself be even more successful? What do you want to achieve in the future related to your writing?

Team Effort

Comparison contrast essays are due today! Please post comments on your team members' essays. You should cover:

* introduction on appropriate topics (topics given on HD1 site)
* 3 similarities given for comp paragraph
* 3 differences given for contrast paragraph
* general conclusion
* comparison & contrast vocab (see HD1 site)
* appropriate word length (200)
* grammar & spelling

Progress Test

Exciting opportunity to display your command of English! Come one; come all to the ADMC auditorium from 1:45 -5:15pm, Monday, Nov. 2. Bring ID, pencil and eraser to demonstrate your reading, writing: narration and procedure, and listening skills. See you there!

Processing...

Well done! To those of you who have completed your procedure posts and commented on your team members posts. Those of you who submitted your posts on time have received my feedback on your narrative writing. You now have the procedure criteria and my narration writing comments. You are expected to edit your posts appropriately for the portfolio grade.

We are launching into process writing next. All of the criteria for procedure are also true for process except that instead of using the imperative verb tense, the passive voice is used. On the HD1 website under 125, you will find: “Describing a Process…” Under the introduction, please read: 1. Layout… 2. More… 4. Using a computer… 9. Expanding…; please do exercise 6. Exercise sentences. Choose two topics from the list provided, click on the link(s), read or watch information about your topics, then write your process essays – one for each topic. Both posts are due November 17.

Blog Team Checklist

Please read your team members posts and give them feedback in the comments section of each post. Be sure to give your name, so that you get the credit. Comments should note what your partners have done well, as well as provide constructive criticism. Please make suggestions for editing and give your reasons.

Procedure Essays:

1. Length (150 words)
2. Organization: 3 paragraphs including introduction, body and conclusion
3. Verb Tense: modals & imperative
4. Linking Words
5. Grammar, Spelling and punctuation

Meet at the Movies

Monday, October 12^th our class will not meet. Instead during our class time those of you who have Maurice will meet with him in our classroom. On Tuesday we will meet at our usual time for the reading test. After class we will have an extra session, instead of Maurice’s class. We will meet at Cinestar 2 at 4:15 for the MEIFF movie “Earth Whisperers” . I suggest you purchase your tickets in advance on the MEIFF website, 10AED. See you there!