A Letter to the Reviewer
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Transcript of A Letter to the Reviewer
NHHS Senior Writing
Portfolio
Is an important piece of your portfolio – it is your introduction to your collection
Is scored on an equal basis with the other pieces in the portfolio – it is no less or more important than any of the others
Provides a unifying factor that connects all the pieces in the portfolio
Is an actual friendly LETTER, that uses proper formatting and style
Turns a manila folder of your best pieces into a true portfolio
Is designed for a student to assess him or herself as a writer
Is a letter in which you introduce, justify, critique and/or evaluate your three best pieces, as well as how these pieces display your overall writing growth
An opportunity to praise or criticize Kentucky’s education system
A generic description of stages in the writing process
A generic description of each of the portfolio categories
A thank-you note to express gratitude to the reviewer for assessing your portfolio (although a quick “thank you” at the end is appropriate)
An elaborate table of content listing and/or summarizing every portfolio entry
An evaluation of your teacher A list of unsupported claims about
your improvement as a writer An unrevised, unedited piece
written on the portfolio due date A persuasive essay to convince the
teacher how much you enjoy writing
A description of yourself as a writer, including:A) Goals as a writerB) Progress and growth as a writer
through the yearC) Who or what has influenced the writing
process and growthD) Approaches you used when writing
Discuss the selection of portfolio pieces, including:
A) How you arrived at your selectionsB) Role of the writing folder in portfolio selectionsC) Prewriting/thinking about the topic(s)D) Revision strategies that were helpful
Discuss selection of portfolio pieces, including:
E) Editing strategies that were helpfulF) Kinds of changes made and reasons for those changesG) Influence of teacher/peer conferencing
Any other comments the student wishes to make about his writing over the past four years may be included.
The Letter to the Reviewer… Is the only piece written exclusively for
the portfolio. Students have only one Letter to the
Reviewer, but have several choices regarding other categories and entries – how will you make your letter stand out?