Portfolio/Midterm

For your midterm portfolio, please write a 3-4 page reflection essay on your work so far this year:

Self Reflection  Essay (Poetry/Fiction Units): 

Reflective piece: 3-4 pages, double-spaced:

Write about how you’ve grown as a writer this year, what has been easy/hard for you, what areas you feel you need more work in; reflect on your progress as a writer, a reader, and as a student. 

Write about some pieces you have chosen to include in your portfolio (per genre): why did you include these pieces in your portfolio? How does the piece show your growth and development as a writer in a particular genre? What did you learn about yourself concerning writing from this assignment or project?

Discuss the writing process you used to create the work, where you got your ideas, what you learned about the form or genre of the work as you wrote and revised it, what you learned about yourself as a writer, etc. 

Discuss special projects and reading that had an impact on you. 

Which books you read were of high interest and what did you learn about writing from reading them? 

What did you learn about writing and about yourself through these assignments and courses this year?

Discuss a GOAL you have as a writer for the rest of the year.