Review Everything from your Portfolio Thoughtfully

Review everything from your portfolio thoughtfully. Answer the following questions carefully and specifically. Use your answers as a guide to prepare for your presentation. Your presentation will focus on your goals and your development and improvements this semester. As you answer these questions, evaluate your strengths as a student. Consider how your growth this semester has prepared you for advancement. Use complete sentences or a paragraph to respond to each item.
1. What goals did you set this semester?
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2. When you look through your portfolio, what improvements do you notice in your work?
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3. What changes have you made to help you achieve your goals? What do you know now that you didn’t know before?
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4. How do these changes affect the way you see yourself as a student (or writer, scientist, mathematician, etc.)?
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5. How well did you meet your semester goals?
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6. Which goal was most important to you? Explain why.
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7. What new goals do you have for yourself to continue your personal and educational development?
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8. What specific steps or actions will you take in your next semester? Explain what you will do to stay on track to reach the new goals.
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Transitional Words
In your presentation, you’ll need to show how you’ve grown this semester.

Transitional words communicate relationships between ideas and show how those relationships have changed over time.

Here is a list of transitional words you can use to discuss your transformation throughout this semester.

Afterwards
At last
At the same time
Before
Before this
Currently
During
Eventually
Finally
First/Second/Third
Formerly
Immediately
Last
Later
Next
Soon after
Then

Portfolio: Presentation
You will be presenting your portfolio and discussing your goal-setting and achievement process. Use the Portfolio Presentation Assignment as a planning tool.

During your presentation, you will share one example of your work.

Review the rubric to find out how your presentation will be graded.

Schedule a time with your teacher to share your portfolio. Remember to speak clearly and confidently during the presentation.