This digital portfolio represents a tremendous amount of hard work, determination and maturity. It exhibits work products and showcases intellectual skills that are crucial to the successful transition to both post-secondary education and the professional work force.
By clicking on the buttons below each entry, you can discover the nature of each assignment, its connection to high school, university and workplace competencies as well as the student's formal response to each challenge.
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SEMESTER ONE - THE STUDY OF NON-FICTION
SEMESTER 2 - THE STUDY OF FICTION
ENTRY A - IMPACT OF LOGICAL FALLACIES IN THE MEDIA
ENTRY D - LITERARY ANALYSIS PAPER
View two fictional television commercials that analyze the impact of logical fallacies in consumer and political advertisements.
Students demonstrate their ability to process and
analyze literature in a written format. Read an electronic transcript of the student's response to a selected novel.
ENTRY B - PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE
ENTRY E - FAVORITE POEM PROJECT
Two-student teams pair off in a spirited debate on a
host of complicated and controversial issues. Watch the complete video footage of their interaction.
The power and beauty of poetry is captured in the
students’ reading of and reflection on a poem that speaks
to them on a meaningful and individual level.
ENTRY C - UNIVERSITY-LEVEL RESEARCH PAPER
ENTRY F - SHORT STORY
America's complex and paradoxical relationship with
the world is analyzed through the perspectives of history's
greatest thinkers in a university-level scholarly discussion.
Students translate their knowledge of the figurative
devices and elements of fiction into a full-length short
story of their own creation.
