The Electronic Portfolio

1.  You will create an "Electronic Portfolio" that will be posted on the internet.  This portfolio will be a biography of yourself.  You will create the following pages:

-Opening Page with a picture of yourself and "buttons" that lead to other pages.  You may be as creative as you like with how this page looks.
-Personal Resume with information about your academic record (credits etc...), awards, community service, goals for the future, etc...
-Extra Curricular Activities- this page will encompass all aspects of your free time outside of school.
-Awards/Recognitions- here you will provide a log of all awards and recognitions you have received.  This can go back as far back as elementary school.
-Goals for your Future- on this page you will research a career of your choice and any university or educational path you will need to partake of in order to prepare you for this career.
-Family/Friends- here you can provide a closing page with pictures, a message board, music, quotes, etc...  BE CREATIVE!!!

Your assignment is due  MAY 19TH, 2006!!!

Other projects may be announced throughout the semester and year...

Media Mural
Mrs. Perez will select a topic that is a media story; usually a story that can be followed in the media over time.  These media stories are high profile, usually on a national level, and can be any topic.  The media stories should have two sides to an issue.  Students should be able to decide a verdict, make a decision, or take a position.

Students will collect articles from various types of media on this high profile media story.  ONE article per day.  Mrs. Perez will determine a point value for each article that is required.

For this year's topic Mrs. Perez chose the recent "immigration reform" laws.
This was a great topic for our school which is 99% Hispanic.

"The Wall" was given a title that asked a question of passers by: "Are you for or against the immigration issue?"  The wall was divided in half and the teacher selected the best articles to be posted on each side.  One side supported stricter laws (blue), and the other opposed the laws (white).

Students were rewarded with extra credit points if their articles were selected for "The Wall".  Along with the articles students also had to develop a statement in the form of an argument that was a point made in the article.  These were written out as bullets on the wall and were written next to the article.  Later, a lesson on Pathos, Ethos, and Logos (the three forms of argumentation developed by Aristotle) was done in class.   Students wrote a "T-Chart" with all the bullets written out on it.  Each bullet is also labeled with Pathos, Ethos, and Logos.  These bullets were also incorporated into a formal letter students wrote that was later mailed to our local Senator, Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa.

This project has been done with other topics in passed years.  Here are other topics done before:
     - Is Michael Jackson innocent or guilty?
     - Should the U.S. attack Iraq and enter war?
     - Is Scott Peterson innocent or guilty?
     - Are you for or against stricter  immigration laws?

ENRICHMENT
Students also decided to hold a debate with another English III class.  The debate was filmed and viewed school wide.  The debate reported both sides of the issue and a school-wide vote on the issue of immigration was taken.