instructions for ePortfolio deposit

ePortfolio DEPOSIT FOR PROBLEM SOLVING/ORAL SKILLS


When you do your audio recording on your phone or computer (well before Feb. 14), the poem should be one either on the syllabus or Whitman or Gaiman pr by someone who could logically be on the syllabus. The whole recording should take only 1 1/2 - 2 minutes to read--for example 10-15 seconds for introductory statement, 1 min. 10 seconds for the poem and 25 seconds for the statement after it which shows your critical thinking: thesis statement and 1 or 2 quick examples to support it.

When you read the poem, it can be calm or tranquil if you like, but some feeling into it; don't mumble. Enunciate very clearly, and go slowly enough. Feel the rhythm of the poem.
The 5 or 6 sentence analysis following the reading (which of course you should write out completely and also articulate clearly and with some feeling) is basically how you solved the problem of interpretation.   Here are some outlines of examples of what you can say:

 I found a pattern of tropes and images pertaining to ________, and I traced the movement of these tropes/images  from the concept of ______  to the concept of _________. This helped me discover that ___________.

I realized that to understand the poem, I had to learn a little about the social, historical, or political context of ___________, and, once I learned this from __________, I applied it to the poem by interpreting the tropes (or images or diction, etc.) according to this context. This helped me discover that ___________.

I realized that the poem's major tropes and images could be interpreted in two different ways. I realized that the interpretation involving __________ and the one involving _________ are both equally supportable, because I found that each one had logical consistency from beginning to end.
OR
... both supportable, but not equally, because I found that the first one had more logical consistency from beginning to end.


HERE ARE THE TECHNICAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR UPLOADING:

Put your Word doc or docx on your desktop and eliminate your name and the professor's name.
For the Sound file name, do not use any part of your name or my name. 
Go to your ePortfolio and log in.

Click on ENG270.

Click on Assessment

Find the browse button

Upload the document and then you should see it.


Go to the bottom of the webpage and click Complete and Submit.  (If you don't click that, the upload is NOT registered.)