Portfolio's

Have you ever had to make a portfolio? If you have, you know that all a portfolio contains is pieces of work someone has done with and a written reflection. I had to do a portfolio in high school with all of my papers in English class all through out my four years. We had to write a quick reflection on the paper and then when we were writing our next papers our teacher made us look back on the papers in order to learn from mistakes. 

When starting a portfolio just make sure you have items in there that are relevant to the topic or goal in which you want to achieve. Also, make sure you evaluate each piece in your portfolio and not just put the work into the folder. 

Chapter 27 Norton Field Guide

Evaluations

Have you ever read a movie or book review? Was there too much of the plot in the review that you did not need to see the movie or read the book? That is why when writing a review, one has to have a very concise description of the subject. I was on the newspaper staff in high school and I had to write my share of movie reviews. The reviews that ran in the paper had a very brief summary of the plot and a majority of the review was how I liked it and what could be improved.

When writing evaluations one should write for the age group the movie is trying to target. If the target age group is teens, use language and act like you are talking to a teen. Also, more people will read a review is written by someone in the target age group. For example: I wrote a review on the movie "17 Again," and more people read it because it is a teen movie and the review was written by a teen. 

Michael Jackson

We decided to change our project from a short video to a website dedicated to Michael Jackson's Moonwalk. Darryl made a video demonstrating how to do the moonwalk. We have information about Michael Jackson's life, History of the Moonwalk, what else was going on the year the moonwalk was first done. So we just have more information about Michael Jackson in general. 

The website was a lot easier to do that the video. Everyone has contributed to the website and it has gone smoothly.