Dear Andrew Letter

This paper was the first writing assignment we have had in this course. There-

fore, it will also be the start of my portfolio. This paper introduces me as a student and

who I am outside of school. I learned what sort of writing I would be doing this semester

and how to properly write about myself during this assignment.

Confidentiality Statement

This document represented the start of our practicum. I had to take responsibility

and make sure all things for my practicum were set and in order before I began my

study. Having this document signed signified that everything was ready for me to begin.

I learned what was needed to be done when interviewing a person or place to ensure

that everything works out right.

Bitch Session

This assignment was given to us to complain about all our issues at the point of

midterms. I wanted to include this because it was a pretty fun assignment and I learned

a lot from it. I learned how to re-word papers depending on the intended reader. How I

wrote for each audience proved to be challenging but it really helped me later when writ-

ing different assignments.

Practical Proposal

Here you will find my original proposal for my practicum subject. This is the intro-

duction to my actual blog. While writing this I learned about thinking long-term. I had to

choose a subject that I would be studying in detail for the entire semester.

Human Experience Criteria

Here you will find my personal criteria for what the Human Experience is and

what traits one would need to be an example of the Human Experience. This is paired

with my proposal because I used these criteria to help choose which place I wanted to

interview. From this, I learned what my personal definition of the human experience is

and who and what fits the definition.

Making the Lists

Here you will find a group work assignment where we chose categories and had

to decide what belonged into said categories. This assignment interested me a lot as I

did it, so I felt it was important for me to add to my portfolio. I learned about grouping

things and being able to develop criteria for subjects.

Meme & Reflection

Here you wild my meme of me. This project made me describe myself and how

others view me in respect to one specific hobby. This project taught me to look at things

from alternate views other than my own.

The Arrival mini-project

Here you will find my project in response to The Arrival by Shaun Tan. This was

a interesting book and project and was also a requirement for my portfolio. This book

and project taught me how to interpret different types of literature. It also taught me that

books do not have to have words to tell a meaningful story.

Practicum Blog

Here you will find a link to blog that I have been working on throughout this se-

mester. It was a very extensive project and had a lot of pieces to it. From this project I

learned that you can interview a place and get its history through the observation of the

people who visit the place.

Contemporary Literacy Project

Here you will find the written and visual form of my literacy project in relation to

my practicum and blog. This project has taught me different types of literacies and what

literacy actually means. It also taught me that places can be literate in many different

things.

Annotated Bibliography

Here you will find an annotated bibliography of sources for the novel American

Gods by Neil Gaiman. This is a mandatory document for my portfolio, but I also chose it

because it is a good description of the novel we had to read this semester.

American Gods Reflection

Here you find my personal reflection of the novel American Gods. This is a

mandatory document for my portfolio, but it also is a good indicator of everything I

learned from this novel. From this assignment, I learned more about what I thought of

the book since I was forced to think on it deeper.

Academic Wild Card: LBST

Here you will find the link to my Visual Arts photo project. I chose this item be-

cause it was one of the more enjoyable things I had the chance to do outside of this

class. While doing this project, I learned different things about landscape and visual arts

and the purpose of interpretation.

Personal Wild Card

Here you will find a compilation of all my art I have done this semester. I chose

this because none of it was done for academic purpose, but it is still very interesting and

took up a lot of my time. My drawings and paintings have taught me that there are a lot

of ways to de-stress and that even if you aren’t great at something does not mean that

you can not do it.

Reflection: A Humanizing Experience

Here you find my reflection on this portfolio. This is a mandatory piece of the

portfolio, but also, it concludes my thoughts of my own portfolio and brings an end to my

portfolio and this class. I learned that all the small assignments we have done through

the year are not as silly as they seemed at he time. I also learned that I am capable of a

to more than I thought.