Part 2: The Reflective Letter:
In addition to your 3 items, you should include a reflective letter that helps me understand the choices you made. The letter should be at least 500 words long. Address that letter to me, your instructor.
You will write your letter in paragraph form (do not submit one long paragraph, nor a series of bullet points). Here are the questions that your letter should answer:
What items did you decide to include in your portfolio and why? Was it a tough choice or was it easy to choose which items to include in your story-telling trio?
If making selections was hard, explain why. If making selections was easy, explain why.
You’ve already submitted this work in some version earlier in the semester. The capstone portfolio is comprised of final versions.
What specifically did you change and why? If you didn’t change something, why not?
If every part of the portfolio submission doesn’t reflect your full understanding, creative and intellectual capacity, where do you think this portfolio submission stumbles a bit and why?
Are there any special circumstances – positive or challenging — that influenced what I will be reading on the pages you submit?
Which parts of your portfolio submission make you feel the most proud?
Think of some part (or parts) that you worked especially hard on or which feels particularly inspired. Be as specific as you can be. You don’t want my eye to slide past your best bits. Tell me about them.
What did you like or dislike about curating the portfolio of your work?
Did the instructions, work with your classmate, instructor feedback, and/or assigned reading help you build this portfolio? How?
If a classmate helped guide you, give that person a shout out!
Was there anything missing that would have helped you to do your best work?
Is there something that you wish we’d covered more slowly or in more detail?
If you could step into a time machine and go backward in time, what would you do differently in preparing this assignment?
Do not rush. Look over the work that you will hand in to me. Take some time to think before you begin writing. Your answers matter to me – tell me what happened.
