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8/11/2019 Portfolio - Final Exam

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ISFD N30Profesorado en InglsLanguage and Written Expression IIITeacer! "las "igatti

Final #ssess$ent

Personal Portfolio

Anglica Santi


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Contents

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General Reection 3

Monitor Writing %

Final Drafts of Individual Assignments &

Personal Selection '(

Personal Journal '%


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General Reection

!n the "rst place# ! must say this subject is not my favourite one$ ! never like

what ! write# and it is very embarrassing for me to know that somebody is going to

read what !%ve written$ &erhaps that is the reason why ! spend so much time in

writing just a few sentences and in the end it turns out to be very exhausting$ 'his

drawback is something ! would like to improve$

Secondly# it is worth pointing out that ! consider my writing has improved

quite a lot$ Although ! have been writing in (nglish for a long time# some concepts

and notions became clearer after this year%s work$ ! believe that the organized

schedule helped a lot in achieving that improvement$

'hirdly# the variety of tasks was an advantage as it helped me in trying not

to be so structured and controlling$ )orking in pairs or groups is surely enriching

but for a dominant character like mine it was a real challenge$

*ast but not least# the assessment was de"nitely bene"cial to improve my

writing production$ Although process writing is a time demanding kind of

assessment# ! think it is worth applying it to this subject$ +ue to a large number of

students and shortage of time some aspects could not be taken into account# such

as the possibility to write more drafts or the advantage of receiving a detailed

assessment from the "rst draft onwards$ 'he actual problem was that we followed

the teacher%s suggestions in the "rst draft# and new mistakes appeared later in

the parts of the piece of writing that has not been changed because it was

supposed to have no mistakes$ ! believe that this was really confusing$

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Monitor Writing

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First Writing Instance0


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!t was raining hard in ew 2ork the day 3ussians invaded Afghanistan$ A dark "gure

was striding along the street as it rained$

Suddenly he stopped and broke into a house where an old man was sleeping$

4e woke up in confusion and demanded to know who was there$

After a while and having no answer# he decided to take a gun from his night table

and addressed the intruder aggressively# again "rmly requesting about his identity$

5ut there was no answer so he continued searching around the house# until he saw

a light coming out from the fridge# as its door was open$ !t was empty but somebody had

put a coat and a piece of paper in it# so the man took that piece of paper and read the

note$ !t said6 75ehind you$8

Second Writing Instance

!t is raining heavily this night$ 9ootsteps from the street can be heard splashing

around$ Awaken by those noises# the man quickly gets up and takes his gun$ 4e is

convinced somebody has broken into his house$ 4e walks around every room until he

gets to the kitchen$ A piece of cloth is sticking out of the fridge$ :autiously# grabbing the

gun harder# he opens the fridge%s door$ 'here is a raincoat inside and a note# signed with

a strange symmetric symbol# that reads6 75ehind you$8

Reection on Monitor Writing

Although it looked like a very interesting visual aid# this comic was not really

appealing to my imagination$ !n fact# ! found it very hard to come out with some

idea during the "rst instance of writing$ !t was merely a careful and detailed

attempt of descriptive writing$ 'he second instance of writing is more similar to a

narrative as the events are described in a more interesting manner$ 'o be honest#

the day ! ful"lled this task ! felt completely palled by it$

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Final Drafts of Individual Assignments

#ssign$ent

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What has een !our e"#erience as regards children$s literature% Write a one&ort'oaragra#h reection u#on it(

! started reading books for children as soon as ! learnt to read$


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#ssign$ent 3 / Indiidual

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Te er4 5ungr4 )aterpillar

)ritten and !llustrated by (ric :arle

&uDn 5ooks >1C/C

&aperback E; pp$

@3eview by Anglica SantiB

7!n the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf$8 So begins this lovely story that

follows a starving caterpillarFs path through his metamorphosis$ Gne apple on


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Process! improvement out of feedbackand comments in class$*(0+,

:lear improvement after feedback$ Someunsuccessful corrections worsening the initialcondition$ @1/B

Final $ar6! &.+

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#ssign$ent 7! Indiidual

Essa4 Writing

Aout tal)ing houses* tric)sters and the #o'er struggle

Houses dont talk, you know!, writes *inda 4ayward at the end of 74ello#

4ouseH8# her simple retelling of one of the K'ales of Lncle 3emusK# a well known collection

of oral tradition folktales compiled by the American journalist and writer Moel :handler

4arris $

&robably an adaptation of the African cunning rabbit1# 5rer 3abbit# the clever

protagonist of 74ello# 4ouseH8 as well as of other two>thirds of the 7'ales of Lncle 3emus8

and a supporting character in most of the rest# is regarded by some scholars as the best>

known trickster in American literature$'hroughout this story he manages to outwit 5rer

)olf# one of his usual victimized opponents# with complex simplicity$ 4e does so in such away that readers are almost compelled to reIect upon his doings$ And out of this

reIection various authors have considered 5rer 3abbit as 7a revolutionary black "gure8

from African> American traditional lore$,


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would come up with any prank to deal with the crisis$ Similarly# 5rer 3abbit achieves his

main objective# to fool his enemy# by performing a trick that best suits the circumstances#

through lies# stealing# injuring# betraying# humiliating# even murdering$ !n the case of

74ello# 4ouseH8# 5rer )olf is really humiliated after falling for 5rer 3abbit%s trick of making

him believe that the house would answer to his calls$ Another tale places 5rer 3abbit at

the bottom of a well# a hapless victim of 5rer 9ox# and develops in 5rer 9ox rescuing him

from the well by asserting that the moon reIected in the water at the bottom of the well

is really a block of cheese$ 5rer 9ox jumps into the other water bucket# descends into the

well# and# in the process# enables 5rer 3abbit to rise to freedom$

5eing at ease during stressing times is another interesting aspect of this

character%s personality$ !t is the perfect complement to brains and the cherry on the cake

in 5rer 3abbit%s temperament that# together with sensibility and wits# leads him to take

the dominant role in underprivileged conditions$ 'his emotional>rational combination is

perfectly pictured in 74ello# 4ouseH86 5rer 3abbit does not panic when he comes back

home and sees the door open$ !nstead# he calmly inspects the surroundings and "nally

comes up with the brilliant culminating idea of making 5rer )olf believe that the house

would talk$

!n trying to "nd a way out of the oppression# the enslaved peoples found it

impossible# under that social context# to parallel their masters% power$ 'hey had to get

the most out of their cultural wisdom and did so by trickster stories like 74ello# 4ouseH8#

which contains underlying serious comments of the injustice they had to endure and

whose leading roles are performed by animal characters that carry considerable

signi"cance$ )hen placed in the stereotypical situation of the weak against the powerful#

the weak characters# who represent the black minority# use brains# intuition and prior

experience to "nd a smooth way out of conIict and outwit the strong ones representing

the more educated# resourceful white society$

2ou were able to solve most of your initial problems$ 'he only important thing toreconsider is the somewhat marginal place you give to your main story at some point inyour argumentation$ 'he rest is sound and well>informed$ ?reat essay$ :ongratulationsH

'his is the "nal assessment6Content: organisation, coherence, clarity ofideas.(45%)

Clear and sound argumentation. Pertinence ofcontent and organization in the main. Focus lost atone point in the argumentation (40%)

Language: correction of form and register.

Style. (35%)Sound and creatie use of language. Correction of

style and register. Fe! language inconsistenciesaffecting clarity. ("0%)

Process: improement out of feed#ac$ andcomments in class.(20%)

Clear and conscious improement after feed#ac$.(&%)

Final mark: 88%

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Personal Selection

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Draft '

Te er4 5ungr4 )aterpillar

As a young graphi designer, ri Carle wanted to inno"ate with this uni#ue array o$

olour$ul illustrations, die%ut pages and rhyth&i prose' And he sueeded! Throughout these

years it has sold &ore than () &illion opies and been translated to *+ languages' Another

$asinating part o$ this book is that the pages are not all the sa&e sie' They get bigger as the

a&ount o$ $ood the aterpillar eats inreases' He lea"es holes in the "arious $oods he eats, too'

These gi&&iky holes o&bined with the "i"id illustrations gi"e e-tra $un and en.oy&ent whilelearning about nature, $ood and the days o$ the week' /t &ay as well enourage on"ersations

about natures &ost $a&ous &irale, the li$e yle o$ the butter0y and disussions on si&ple and

uni"ersal &oral topis1 dont .udge by appearanes and real beauty is &ore that skin%deep'

)e discussed about this previously and extensively but ! think this part of the "rst

draft of my individual review is worth being considered as an achievement$ !t took

me a long time of thinking about the language style# vocabulary and structure$ 9or

this purpose# ! read many reviews by other people and used the words or phrases#

! thought appropriate for the task$ 2ou called it plagiarism$ ! consider it learning$ !

must be true to myself and my points of view about learning a language6 !t%s not

wrong to copy words or phrases to enrich and expand your vocabulary and

knowledge when you%re learning$

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conclusive thought an idea that you haven%t clearly developed before$$ @consider pointing back to your object

of analysis in your "nal commentB$

Lndoubtedly# it was a major goal for me to be able to write an essay# even more

on such a topic$ 'his "rst draft and all the comments show how diDcult it was to

achieve coherence and cohesion$

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Te Door8ell 1ang

&at 4utchins

?reenwillow 5ooks# ew 2ork# 1C;/@3eview by invited visitors are children of di=erent ages and cultural backgrounds who arrive in a bigger number at

every new ring of the doorbell$

!n all# +he Doorell Rangis an attractively illustrated picture book with plain pictures and bright colours$ All

this combined with a conIict in crescendo turns a frequent domestic situation into an opportunity to use


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'his review is my favourite not only because of the result but also because of the

process$ )e could do it in a quite short time and with the least mistakes$

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Personal Journal

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'he &ersonal Mournal experience was a really awkward task to ful"l$ !%m not veryfond of writing about my thoughts or emotion# even in letters$ 'he interaction wasscarce so the result was not the expected$

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