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Portfolio Rubric: Your advancement toward strong and varied language skills in English
Vocabulary use
Advanced
9 or 10
Formal speaking
able 1
to make use of language subtleties, such
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as humor, idioms and irony.
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the audience.
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Achieving
intermediate
8 or 9
thinking in English.
intermediate
7
beginner
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Achieving
Developing
beginner
Articulates
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Box 1new ideas and original
Check analysis
Box 1of an academic topic without
substantial help from written work.
Reading
Analyzes works of poetry effectively
Uses and
synthesizes
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35 information from
non-academic genres to enrich work
Writing
Expresses original, academic thinking with a high
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Box 35
command of language. Check Box 35
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35of techniques to engage the
Uses a wide
range
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Box 35
and stylistic level. Check Box 35
Articulates new ideas and original thinking beyond
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Able to present synthesized information
support Check
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in an organized, academic manner.
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35
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Explains facts and restates ideas or summaries
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using
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formal45
English writing conventions Check Box 45
through traditional quizzes and exams
Contributes
new 1
ideas clearly. Check Box 12academic material and offers opinions
Shows comprehension of longer fiction.
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Self-edits
work
on
a
Can use a variety of strategies to decode Demonstrates original thinking about class topics. Check
without substantial
help from written work.
Check
Shows comprehension
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Uses paragraphs
effectively. Check Box 45
unknown words.
Student
is
not
afraid
to
make
mistakes
or
try
Speaks
at
length
fluently
without
substantial
Shows
comprehension
of
non-fiction.
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Box 45
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help from written work. Check Box 21
new ways of speaking. Check Box 12
Can use written English in a variety of genres. Check Box 45
unknown words, independently.
Developing
Business comunication
Score: 38/61
After you have checked the points that you believe you have demonstrated competency for and scored yourself for your current level, answer these questions:
What have you improved on most during this partial (or, if this is the 4th partial, during the semester)?
I have improved my writting abilities and also my speaking abilities althought I don't like to talk in front o many people.
What aspects of your English do you think still needs more work?
I really need to speak more fluently and with confidence.
What aspect of your portfolio are you most proud of so far? Why?
I am so proud of my writting ability because I wasn't able to write that well before this semester.
What aspect of your portfolio do you think needs the most improvement? Why?
Speaking because I still get nervous and I forgot more of the words when I try to speak.
Current Level: __
Your portfolio will include work that you have done all throughout the semester. You will not include all assignments and work i
Once each partial, you will have time to meet with the teacher, discuss your portfolio and your general improvement in English
TO BEGIN: Get the following materials together in one p For the first 3 partials, you will NOT be graded on your portfolio based
Floppy disk
4 copies of this rubric (one for each partial)
Your Final partial grade will be based directly on this rubric and is wor
Videotape
Cassette
Large binder that can hold ALL materials in an organized manner
ll assignments and work in your porfolio, but will choose the best work you have done that shows master of all the steps up to and within yo
al improvement in English during the semester. During the fourth and final partial, you will turn in your final portfolio. On that day, you will me
ed on your portfolio based on this rubric. Your first 3 partial portfolio grades will be based on THE PROGRESS YOU MAKE.
steps up to and within your target level. You will be responsible not only for saving your work and choosing the most representative work du
. On that day, you will meet with the teacher to present your portfolio and to grade your own work in the class. You will be asked to explain
ost representative work during the semester, but also for bring videotaping materials to classes in which you intend to demonstrate strong fo
u will be asked to explain what you have improved upon during the course and to defend the level you believe you have acheived. The teac
d to demonstrate strong formal speaking skills. and audiotaping materials for days in which you intend to demonstrate strong informal speak
have acheived. The teacher will either approve your level or make changes (which may be higher or lower than your target level) according
our target level) according to her perspective. You will have the chance to discuss your level, but the final level is determined by the teacher.
etermined by the teacher. Your level will determine 60% of your grade in this class.