English I Poetry & Writing Portfolio Project

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1 English I Poetry & Writing Portfolio Project Now that you are near the end of your English I career, you will need to create a portfolio reflecting everything that we discussed. The portfolio should be neatly composed, organized, and creatively crafted. This project is not only a reflection of your English I career, but is also a reflection of your personality. Have fun! Each individual assignment is worth 10/350 10pts- Student has successfully completed assignment and adhered to requirements 5pts- Student completed half of the assignment 0- Student failed to complete assignment Poem Points Earned Comments 1. Write a letter to your friend and display a picture. 2. Create a personal narrative about a memorable moment. 3. Find a poem about friendship and display a picture. 4. Write and create a picture about a word that describes you. 5. Write a journal entry about your favorite song, include the song lyrics and a picture. 6. Write a poem about yourself using metaphors, similes, and adjectives to describe yourself. 7. Create a memory poem about a favorite past time using 3 examples of imagery. 8. Choose your favorite journal entry or quote from your daybooks and add as an entry to your poetry project. Make sure to use pictures or illustration to go along with the journal entry. 9. Find a poem about love and display illustrations or photos. 10. Find a poem about feelings, aspirations, and desires. 11. Write an old friend and discuss an issue that has bothered you for a long time. 12. Write a journal entry about your favorite holiday memory using sensory language. 13. Write about a historical past time of America. Display photos or illustrations. 14. Write a poem about dreams use similes and metaphors within the poem. 15. Choose an event from today s world views an earthquake, a revolution, a famine and imagine its taking place in your community. Write about it. Use photos or illustrations.

2 16. Include the song you translated into Shakespearean Language 17. Journal Entry: Pick a writing piece from any point this year. Be a critic! What strengths and weaknesses do you see? 18. Write to your future and explain if you would change or not change your life and how could you make it better? 19. Friendly quotes: Find 10 friends and have them write down their favorite quotes. Attach a photo of them with their quote. 20. Journal Entry: If you could live in any place in the world where it would be in why? Write about it. Use description and details. Display photos, brochures, newspaper clipping or any type of information to display location. 21. Compare someone you love to an animal he or she most resembles. Write a short piece in which the person is magically turned into an animal. 22. Imagine you are 100 years old. Discuss memorable moments with friends family and past time events that kept you alive for so long. 23. Talk about a topic that gets your mind boiling. Take the opposite side and discuss. 24. Write a poem about respect and love. Make sure you discuss how you would use these tools in the world? 25. Turn into your favorite car. How does it feel to be that particular car? Display a picture 26. Include your Theme for English B 27. Include your My Name poem 28. Write a poem about your shoes. 29. Create your own unique rhyming poem. 30. Find 6 quotes referring to your career goals. 31. Talk about your favorite thing that makes you happy and discuss why? 32. Journal Entry: Describe your first semester experience of high school and things that you would do differently using a literary style. (2-3 paragraphs) 33. Create a survival guide in the form of a list for 9 th graders next year. (2 items) 34. Create an advertisement page for Phillip O. Berry using one persuasive technique. 35. Create Closing Remarks about your piece. Display a personal photo of yourself.

3 Cut the follow strips out and glue them on the page displayed with your poem. 1. Write a letter to your friend and display a picture. 2. Create a personal narrative about a memorable moment. 3. Find a poem about friendship and display a picture. 4. Write and create a picture about a word that describes you. 5. Write a journal entry about your favorite song, include the song lyrics and a picture. 6. Write a poem about yourself using metaphors, similes, and adjectives to describe yourself. 7. Create a memory poem about a favorite past time using 3 examples of imagery. 8. Choose your favorite journal entry or quote from your daybooks and add as an entry to your poetry project. Make sure to use pictures or illustration to go along with the journal entry. 9. Find a poem about love and display illustrations or photos. 10. Find a poem about feelings, aspirations, and desires. 11. Write an old friend and discuss an issue that has bothered you for a long time. 12. Write a journal entry about your favorite holiday memory using sensory language. 13. Write about a historical pastime of America. Display photos or illustrations. 14. Write a poem about dreams use similes and metaphors within the poem. 15. Choose an event from today s world views an earthquake, a revolution, a famine and imagine its taking place in your community. Write about it. Use photos or illustrations. 16. Include the song you translated into Shakespearean Language 17. Journal Entry: Pick a writing piece from any point this year. Be a critic! What strengths and weaknesses do you see? 18. Write to your future and explain if you would change or not change your life and how could you make it better?

4 19. Friendly quotes: Find 10 friends and have them write down their favorite quotes. Attach a photo of them with their quote. 20. Journal Entry: If you could live in any place in the world where it would be in why? Write about it. Use description and details. Display photos, brochures, newspaper clipping or any type of information to display location. 21. Compare someone you love to an animal he or she most resembles. Write a short piece in which the person is magically turned into an animal. 22. Imagine you are 100 years old. Discuss memorable moments with friends family and past time events that kept you alive for so long. 23. Talk about a topic that gets your mind boiling. Take the opposite side and discuss. 24. Write a poem about respect and love. Make sure you discuss how you would use these tools in the world? 25. Turn into your favorite car. How does it feel to be that particular car? Display a picture 26. Include your Theme for English B 27. Include your My Name poem 28. Write a poem about your shoes. 29. Create your own unique rhyming poem. 30. Find 6 quotes referring to your career goals. 31. Talk about your favorite thing that makes you happy and discuss why? 32. Journal Entry: Describe your first semester experience of high school and things that you would do differently using a literary style. (2-3 paragraphs) 33. Create a survival guide in the form of a list for 9 th graders next year. (2 items) 34. Create an advertisement page for Phillip O. Berry using one persuasive technique. 35. Create Closing Remarks about your piece. Display a personal photo of yourself.

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