Assignment/Activity Title Mentor/ Sage Monologue Skill Communication

YearFreshman Portfolio Category Media& Communication

The Mentor/Sage project was given to us at the end of our first semester, in order to increase our skills with public speaking and to practice standing on stage alone and feeling comfortable with our own writing. The assignment required us to interview someone over 50 years of age that we looked up to as a mentor or a sage. We were told pay attention to their stories, and learn a lesson from their words. We wrote their stories down in a monologue format, and prepared to present them to our class. The project sounded quite simple, but we also had to embody our interviewee both emotionally and physically by using everything from their personal quirks to the things they carried with them. This project helped me get through my stage fright in front of the class. In the beginning of the year, I had terrible stage fright, and could barely get a word out on stage during group projects, let alone by myself. I was incredibly self-conscious of what others thought about me and my performing. This overthinking led to me constantly forgetting my lines during performances, bad blocking, terrible physicality and other avoidable experiences. The stage fright plagued me for the entire first marking period, and I was constantly messing up on my performances, because of this my grade began to falter. Then one day, just like that, my anxiety went away. I was now confident and composed when I went up to present and I had almost no worries presenting in front of classrooms from now on.

The Mentor/Sage project symbolizes for me a lot of things. It symbolizes the project where I was first able to overcome my stage fright and it also symbolizes my new heightened sense in my media communication skills. I received a 95 percent on this assignment and I was very proud of myself not only for overcoming one of my biggest fears, but also because I received a high grade. This assignment will help me progress through all of high school because the lessons I have learned from this assignment about presenting in front of a class alone are irreplaceable, and these lessons will help me power through the CAP program.

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Assignment/Activity Title SkillWriting, Media, Research.

YearFreshman, Sophomore PortfolioCritical Reasoning, Ethics.

Metacognitive ReflectionThe following questions ARE NOT A SCRIPT!! Use the ideas within the questions to reflect on the assignment and its significance to you. Your reflection MUST use Times New Roman font, size 11, single spacing

How does this assignment reflect your growth in the category in which you are placing it? How have you changed as a result of this assignment? Why is it important to include this piece in your portfolio? How and where does this fit in with your prior knowledge? How do you think that others will react to this product? What process did you use to complete the product? What did you learn by doing this assignment? How does the portfolio product illustrate the connection(s) you've made between yourself and the course material? In what ways would you do things differently if you could do it over again? What did you discover about yourself? How does it relate to your future? How does it illustrate your strengths and/or weaknesses? What obstacles and challenges did you have to deal with, and how did this struggle change you? How does the portfolio product show that your perspective on the world has deepened? How does it relate to your understanding of the world around you? Which of your accomplishments makes you feel most proud?

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