Dedication and Table of Contents

Name:______Due date: ______Final CW Portfolio Checklist

Your final portfolio is your opportunity to show how you’ve improved as a writer this semester. In a binder, please include all requested materials. ↓(1) New Portfolio Assignments↓ (points) ↓(2) Graded Drafts↓ (points) For all graded drafts, include a clean copy and all Cover Page Including: previous drafts to show your work and development as  your name & the date due a writer. (Tabs, post-its, construction paper, or  an original 6-word memoir title * (check dividers between major pieces are helpful!) out http://www.sixwordmemoirs.com/)  original artwork/illustration: take a photo that communicates who you are without showing what you look like /5 Show your portfolio to someone important to you (not a peer/friend) and ask him/her to write a Prose Draft (Choose One to Revise: Finding note TO YOU sharing thoughts and feelings in ex.cr. Meaning, Showing vs. Telling, Place Draft) response to your writing. Include this signed note /2 pts. (noting relationship to you). /5 Dedication and Portfolio Table of Contents * Free-Verse Poem (may be an imitation from  See attached requirements class) /5 /5

Your Portfolio Introduction* Hinge Essay  See attached requirements /10 (w/rubric & full process) /5 / New writing process piece inspired by a write-in.* 10  See attached requirements Fictional Character Narrative (w/rubric & full process) /5 Writing that inspires you* Fixed Form Poem  See attached requirements /5 /5

Showing off your skills from Graded Drafts All write-ins, dated and in order  See attached requirements/chart (original; not revised; add missing entries as /30 close as possible to original dates; #______) /10 Submit a piece of writing that you wrote this semester to Teen Ink or another publication. ex.cr. Portfolio Grade Provide proof of your submission. /2 pts. /100

Key to comments: c = errors in conventions; mpd = missing previous drafts

*Starred pieces (5) must be submitted to Turnitin.com in a single file by the Portfolio due date to receive credit On check-point due dates, at least one additional piece with the clipboard check symbol is due. ______Dedication and Table of Contents • In Greek mythology, the muses inspired poets, • Below your dedication, for your table of writers, artists, and scientists to create. Who’s contents, include all portfolio pieces in the your muse? order listed below. (No page numbers • Above your table of contents, dedicate your required.) portfolio to one (or more) who inspires or has • Include the assignment names (as listed here) helped you in life or writing. followed by your titles for each. o In a complete sentence or two, explain o Portfolio introduction why each person is worthy of your o New process piece inspired by a write-in dedication. o Writing that inspires you o An amazing muse deserves an amazing o Showing off skills dedication. Be creative and original! o Submission for publication (Included are twenty-some creative, o Prose Graded Draft #1 powerful, and funny dedications from o Graded Draft Poem published books for inspiration.) o Future Vision Narrative o Fictional Character Narrative o Fixed Form Poem o Write-ins

A few inspiring dedications from authors famous and obscure

1. My first stepfather used to say that what I didn’t know would fill a book. Well, here it is. (Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life)

2. This book is gratefully dedicated to my children. My mother and my wife taught me how to be a man. My children taught me to be free. NAOMI RACHEL KING, at fourteen; JOSEPH HILLSTROM KING, at twelve; OWEN PHILIP KING, at seven. Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. (Stephen King, IT)

3. to my mother, who liked the bit about the horse. (Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency) 4. for Phyllis, who made me put the dragons in. (George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords) 5. This book is dedicated to Robert Bloch, grandmaster of darkness. May the blood drawn from your typewriter’s keys sustain us always. (Dark Destiny, edited by Edward E. Kramer) 6. For all the storytellers and tale spinners who entertained the public and kept themselves alive, for Alexandre Dumas and Charles Dickens, for Mark Twain and Baroness Orczy and the rest, and most of all, for Scheherazade, who was the storyteller and the story told. (Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio, Stories) 7. To all the English teachers, especially the great ones. (Garrison Keillor, Good Poems)

8. I dedicate this book to George W. Bush, my Commander-in-Chief, whose impressive career advancement despite remedial language skills inspired me to believe that I was capable of authoring a book. (Pedram Amini, Fuzzing: Brute Force Vulnerability Discovery)

9. For Scott, who always believes. (Ally Condie, Matched) 10. In the vastness of space and immensity of time, it is my joy to spend a planet and an epoch with Annie. (Carl Sagan, Cosmos)

11. Dedicated to bad writing. (Charles Bukowski, Pulp)

12. What can I say about a man who knows how I think and still sleeps next to me with the lights off? (Gillian Flynn, Dark Places)

13. Dear Pat, You came upon me carving some kind of little figure out of wood and you said, “Why don’t you make something for me?” I asked you what you wanted, and you said, “A box.” “What for?” “To put things in.” “What kind of things?” “Whatever you have,” you said. Well, here’s your box. Nearly everything I have is in it, and it is not full. Pain and excitement are in it, and feeling good or bad and evil thoughts and good thoughts- the pleasure of design and some despair and the indescribable joy of creation. And on top of these are all the gratitude and love I have for you. And still the box is not full. JOHN ( John Steinbeck, East of Eden)

14. For Kate and Morgan and for everyone whose first love was a hard love. (Ellen Wittlinger, Hard Love)

15. If there is an amateur reader still left in the world — or anybody who just reads and runs — I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children. (J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour)

16. Tad Williams, Otherland, books 1-5: 1. “This Book is dedicated to my father Joseph Hill Evans with love. Actually Dad doesn’t read fiction, so if someone doesn’t tell him about this, he’ll never know.”

2. “This Book is dedicated to my father Joseph Hill Evans with love. As I said before, Dad doesn’t read fiction. He still hasn’t noticed that this thing is dedicated to him. This is Volume Two – let’s see how many more until he catches on.”

3. “This is still dedicated to you-know-who, even if he doesn’t. Maybe we can keep this a secret all the way to the final volume.” 4. “My father still hasn’t actually cracked any of the books – so, no, he still hasn’t noticed. I think I’m just going to have to tell him. Maybe I should break it to him gently.”

5. “Everyone here who hasn’t had a book dedicated to them, take three steps forward. Whoops, Dad, hang on there for a second…”

17. Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR. (Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

18. To caffeine and sugar, my companions through many a long night of writing. (Robb Hobb, Ship of Magic)

19. For Colin Firth–You’re a really great guy, but I’m married, so I think we should just be friends. (Shannon Hale, Austenland)

20. TO LUCY BARFIELD My dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. LEWIS (C.S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe)

21. To Leon Werth. I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up. I have a serious reason: he is the best friend I have in the world. I have another reason: this grown-up understands everything, even books about children. I have a third reason: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs cheering up. If all these reasons are not enough, I will dedicate the book to the child from whom this grown-up grew. All grown-ups were once children– although few of them remember it. And so I correct my dedication: To Leon Werth When he was a little boy (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince)

22. This book is dedicated to Meagan, who has had the kindness and decency to not realize she’s way out of my league for many years now. It should also be noted that this entire book was her idea. Please direct complaints accordingly. (Robert Brockway, Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody – The Terrifying Real Ways The World Wants You Dead)

23. Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu: All our dream-worlds may come true. Fairy lands are fearsome too. As I wander far from view Read, and bring me home to you. (Haroun And The Sea Of Stories, by Salman Rushdie. Written when Rushdie was in hiding, note the acrostic—ZAFAR is his son.)

24. …There is a new trend among authors to thank every famous people for inspiration, non-existent assistance, and/or some casual reference to the author’s work. Authors do this to pump themselves up. So, on the off chance that this is helpful, I wish to thank the following people: the Emperor of Japan and the Queen of England for promoting literacy; William S. Cohen, former secretary of defense, for dropping me a note saying he liked my books, as did his boss, Bill Clinton; Bruce Willis, who called me one day and said, “Hey, you’re a good writer”; Albert Einstein, who inspired me to write about nuclear weapons; General George Armstrong Custer, whose brashness at the Little Bighorn taught me a lesson on judgment; Mikhail Gorbachev, whose courageous actions indirectly led to my books being translated into Russian; Don DeLillo and Joan Didion, whose books are always before and after mine on bookshelves, and whose names always appear before and after mine in almanacs and many lists of American writers—thanks for being there, guys; Julius Caesar, for showing the world that illiterate barbarians can be beaten; Paris Hilton, whose family hotel chain carries my books in their gift shops; and last but not least, Albert II, King of the Belgians, who once waved to me in Brussels as the Royal Procession moved from the Palace to the Parliament Building, screwing up traffic for half an hour, thereby forcing me to kill time by thinking of a great plot to dethrone the King of the Belgians. There are many more people I could thank, but time, space, and modesty compel me to stop here. (Wild Fire, by Nelson Demille)

25. Dedicated to America, whatever that is. (Visions of Cody, by Jack Kerouac)

26. To all those who lead monotonous lives, in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. (The Secret Adversary, by Agatha Christie)

27. You know how it is. You pick up a book, flip to the dedication, and find that, once again, the author has dedicated a book to someone else and not to you. Not this time. Because we haven’t yet met/have only a glancing acquaintance/are just crazy about each other/haven’t seen each other in much too long/are in some way related/will never meet, but will, I trust, despite that, always think fondly of each other! This one’s for you. With you know what, and you probably know why. (Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman)

28. To Mom, Who took me to the library. (Sean Carroll, The Particle at the End of the Universe)

Your Portfolio Introduction Consider this your final and most important “Writer’s Memo.” This introduction will be a minimum of three well-developed paragraphs (and may be significantly longer.) Begin with an introductory paragraph that invites readers into your collection of writings and introduces your writing, yourself, and your work as a writer.

In the body paragraphs, address each of the following areas:  List your five graded drafts from Creative Writing in order of their importance to you, followed by a reflection on each one (history of the piece: where did the idea come from? how did you create it? how different is the final version from the early drafts?) and why you ordered it as you did. In your reflections, also answer the following questions: . Which piece of writing was most difficult for you to write? Why? . Which piece of writing was most enjoyable for you to write? Why? . Which piece is “The Piece I Would Like to Burn” (or work on more, or turn into a poem/ song/ narrative)? Why?  Tell the best piece of advice you received about writing this semester. Where did it come from and why was it important in your journey as a writer?  Explain where you still need to grow as a writer. Conclude by summarizing what you take away from this course and any parting thoughts you wish to share.

New Writing Process Piece Inspired by a Write-In Read through all of the write-in entries that you completed this semester. Choose an entry with potential. Use it as a first draft or loop from it to create a new prose or poetry piece. This new piece should be something substantial that shows what you can do as a writer. Take this draft through the entire writing process as you learned about it in class. Show evidence of forming and finding (the write-in); elaborating; revising; editing; and proofreading. Include no fewer than three drafts, including at least one draft that shows you getting feedback from someone else (about more than proofreading) and a copy of the original entry in your portfolio.

Writing that Inspires You Writing is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. We’ve certainly focused on the 99%. Now think about that other 1%. For this part of your portfolio, include a selection of text -- no more than a few paragraphs -- that inspires you as a writer. (Be sure you cite where this text came from. Try EasyBib.) Having trouble picking a text? Ask yourself  What’s the best passage you’ve ever read?  What’s something that you read and thought, “It’s cool how the author did that with language.”  What’s something that made you mad because you wished you’d written it first? Then write a piece of your own – narrative, poem, essay, imitation, explanation -- inspired by that text. Remember that texts aren’t just prose paragraphs that you read in school. Whose words inspire you? How will you honor that inspiration? Showing Off Your Skills

From each graded draft, identify examples of what you have learned in this class and what you can do as a writer.  Download the “Showing Off Your Skills” template chart.  On the chart, using evidence from your graded drafts, demonstrate thirty different areas of skill/growth, showing what you have learned in class and how you applied it in your writing. (Leave the other skills blank.)  For each skill copy and paste an example from a graded draft (or new portfolio piece) that reveals that skill and a brief explanation of how the highlighted example reveals your understanding and writing prowess. o Do not use the same evidence for multiple skills. o Pull at least one piece of evidence from each graded draft. Good Writing Assignment name Cut and paste Explain how this evidence reveals your prowess with this element Skills & your title evidence of skill of good writing from graded draft Poem #1: “The “The Branches of Even though it’s the name of the place in my draft, this title isn’t a 1. An effective title Branches of Nowhere” boring label and creates mystery. It hints at the magical games of Nowhere” imagination we played as kids. I chose this title after brainstorming and it’s stronger than my original: Childhood Poem.

Good Writing Skills List

1. An effective title 38. Evidence of a discovery made while writing 2. An effective lead/beginning (identify type) 39. An effective snapshot (more than a sentence) 3. A major elaboration not present in an earlier draft 40. An effective thought-shot(more than a sentence) 4. Revising by cutting back 41. An effective exploded moment (more than a sentence) 5. Revising by reorganizing 42. Effective dialogue 6. My best example of “showing, not telling” 43. Showing action and reaction with dialogue tags 7. Strong verbs 44. Evidence that a fictional character is realistic 8. A vivid, precise, or unexpected word choice 45. Showing a character’s personality or change (not telling) 9. Effective rich, sensory detail 46. Evidence of my individual voice 10. Elegant shorthand/compressed language in poetry 47. Something surprising or unusual that works 11. My best sentence 48. Taking a writing risk 12. Establishing a clear, effective setting 49. Evidence of peer or teacher help beyond proofreading 13. Effective parallel sentence structure 50. Identify an existing area needing revision 14. An effective semi-colon 15. An effective colon 16. An effective dash (or dashes) 17. Another punctuation rule learned (list the rule) 18. An effective full-circle ending (include both the beginning and ending ,showing what’s repeated) 19. An ending that leaves readers thinking or feeling 20. A powerful ending line with “punch” 21. Evidence of a “Finding Meaning” method (label method) 22. Evidence of forming and finding (prewriting) 23. An effective scene in a narrative 24. A strong “So What?” -- theme 25. Effective, deliberate use of a very long sentence 26. Effective, deliberate use of a very short sentence 27. Effective, deliberate use of a sentence fragment 28. Original, creative simile 29. Original, creative metaphor 30. Original, creative symbol 31. Other original, creative figurative language (label type) 32. Effective repetition 33. Effective alliteration 34. Other effective sound device (label which kind) 35. Effective “white space” in free verse poetry 36. Line breaks in poetry influencing meaning 37. Writing that follows the rule of small moments Good Writing Skills Assignment name & your title Cut and paste evidence of skill from Explain how this evidence reveals your prowess graded draft with this element of good writing

1. An effective title

2. An effective lead (identify type)

3. A major elaboration not present in an earlier draft

4. Revising by cutting back

5. Revising by reorganizing

6. My best example of “showing, not telling”

7. Strong verbs

8. A vivid, precise, unexpected word choice

9. Effective, rich sensory detail

10. Elegant shorthand, compressed language in poetry

11. My best sentence

12. Establishing a clear, effective setting

13. Effective parallel structure

14. An effective semi- colon

15. An effective colon

16. An effective dash (or dashes)

17. Evidence of another punctuation rule learned (not otherwise listed here; list the rule)

18. An effective full- circle ending (include both beginning and ending to show what repeats) 19. An ending that leaves readers thinking or feeling

20. A powerful ending line with “punch”

21. Evidence of a “Finding Meaning” method (label method)

22. Evidence of forming and finding (prewriting)

23. An effective scene in a narrative

24. A strong “So What?” -- theme

25. Effective, deliberate use of a very long sentence

26. Effective, deliberate use of a very short sentence

27. Effective, deliberate use of a sentence fragment

28. Original, creative simile

29. Original, creative metaphor

30. Original, creative symbol

31. Other figurative language (label which kind)

32. Effective repetition

33. Effective alliteration

34. Other effective sound device (label which kind)

35. Effective “white space” in poetry

36. Line breaks in poetry influencing meaning 37. Writing that follows the rule of small moments

38. Evidence of a discovery made while writing

39. An effective snapshot (more than a sentence)

40. An effective thought-shot (more than a sentence)

41. An effective exploded moment (more than a sentence)

42. Effective dialogue

43. Showing action and reaction with dialogue tags

44. Evidence that a fictional character is realistic 45. Showing a character’s personality or change (not telling)

46. Evidence of my individual voice

47. Something surprising or unusual that works

48. Taking a writing risk

49. Evidence of peer or teacher help beyond proofreading

50. Identify an existing area needing revision