CAP Portfolio

Senior

My Role in the World

Junior
7
Sophomore
7
Freshman
7
Critical
Social
Reasoning Awareness

Media &
Advanced
Communications Exhibitions

Critical Reasoning: Assignments in this category require that students deeply analyze an issue or topic
and examine both their own and others beliefs and perspectives.
o How does this assignment help me better understand my thinking and question those ideas I
believe to be true?
Social Awareness: Assignments in this category help students gain a better understanding of the
environment and world around them and help them attain greater capacity to affect change in their
community. This category has been combined with Ethics and Values.
o How does this assignment help me learn more about society and provide me an opportunity to
promote positive change within my community?
o How does this assignment help me better understand my values and the role they play in the
decisions I make?
Media and Communications: Assignments in this category reflect an understanding of medias role in
shaping our society, and/or how mass communication can enrich or limit society.
o How does this assignment help me understand Medias influence? To what extent does the
Media shape our values?
Advanced Exhibitions: Assignments or activities in this category are ones that are generally beyond
the traditional classroom setting and showcase individual and unique student talents or interests.
Exhibitions may be academically based, or completely outside the classroom. Students are required to
showcase one different Advanced Exhibition per year, for a total of three.
o How does this activity enrich my life and the lives of those around me?

All assignments submitted for consideration must include a reflection (see attachment). Grade-level
teachers will approve all portfolio submissions.

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Reasoning

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Awareness

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Writing
Media
Creative
Literature
Research
Group Dynamics

Writing
Media
Creative
Literature
Research
Group Dynamics
Public Performance

Writing
Media
Creative
Literature
Research
Group Dynamics

Writing
Media
Creative
Literature
Research
Group Dynamics
Public Performance

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Writing
Media
Creative
Literature
Research
Group Dynamics

Writing
Media
Creative
Literature
Research
Group Dynamics
Public Performance

Writing
Media
Creative
Literature
Research
Group Dynamics

Writing
Media
Creative
Literature
Research
Group Dynamics
Public Performance

Assignment/Activity TitleDrama- Dada Performance

YearFreshmen 2015
Skill Creative
Portfolio CategoryCritical Reasoning
In this project, students were asked to work in groups and create some kind of performance about an issue. My
group and I decided to do our performance on labels. We then decided to perform a scenario where there is a new student
who is labeled by other students. This assignment reflects my growth in the category of critical reasoning. I never really
believed labels to be good, or even true, but after completing this performance, I realize even more that labels can really
harm someone. I now thoroughly understand my thinking that labels are bad and harmful, and I am now able to question
labels as a general idea. There are certain labels believed to be good, but if you begin to question those labels, those labels
may be bad after all. Im not sure why people feel the need to label everything, from their relationship to their gender. I
think people may label things to try to understand certain things, but in certain cases, by labeling someone, they only
succeed in hurting the person labeled.
This assignment revealed to me that everyone has strengths and weaknesses, and sometimes there is only fine line
between these two things. I consider one of my strengths to be very focused, but that is also a weakness because I will
then become absorbed in one aspect of an assignment. With this project, I focused too much on the meaning and trying to
have layers in the performance. Although it was not bad to do this, I shouldve focused on the entire project, and the
significance of the dada movement to improve our performance. The significance of the dada movement was that all the
different types of performances addressed issues, and were random, both meant to provoke a reaction in the audience.
I think it is important to include this performance in my portfolio because it represents most of the categories, and
the goal of this project was something important to be able to reflect upon. It represents the need for change in societys
mindset, and allows me to think more about how I can help contribute to some of the reshaping society needs. In drama
class, we have done different things about society, with things such as exercises with high class and low class, as well as
these dada performances.
This performance relates to my future in a few different ways. The first way is just improving my attitude towards
labels and names. The other way is because as I grow older, I am exposed more and more to issues such as bullying,
labels, rudeness, and unfair things. The more exposed I am, and the more I explore these subjects in class, the more
prepared I will be when I venture out into the world. In this world, there are many unfair things- racism, sexism, etc. This
project has deepened my understanding that even though labels are not something that is normally called to the front of
the line of issues, those unfair things- racism and sexism- they are based on labels. Racism only exists because people
have been labeled base on their ethnicities, and the same thing applies to sexism. I now understand that all things in this
world are going to somehow be connected to each other.
Im proud of this assignment because, although others may not realize it, by addressing labels as an issue, we
addressed so many more issues that are also taking place, things that are much more well known than labels, solely
through this one project. This idea makes me proud because I was able to address all sorts of issues in which there are
many concerns, all through this one project.

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Assignment/Activity Title
SkillWriting, Media, Research.
Ethics.

YearFreshman, Sophomore
PortfolioCritical Reasoning,

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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