ENG4C Portfolio:

A Report Demonstrating My Achievement of the Curriculum Expectations for Grade 12

Prepared by:
Makenah Hind
ENG4C
Glendale High School

Prepared for:
Mr Harris

June 11 2016

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A. Summary
In this section of your report, you will summarize the contents of the body of the
report. Make sure you identify the different pieces that you will be referring to throughout
your report. To give the reader a clear idea of what kinds of information they will find in
the report, make sure you address the content covered by each heading. End with an
overall statement about how you have demonstrated growth as a learner throughout this
course.

B. Knowledge
In this section I will tell you about what I did and did not know about conducting
research, theories of fear and the elements of fiction.
i.

Conducting Research
There are three stages of conducting research. The first step is to prepare. You

want to prepare by figuring out what you are being asked to do and what kind of
information youll need to find. Second step is to access your resources by locating
information from a variety of sources. It is a good idea to access information from a
variety of sources. Librarians also ar a good thing to use as they know how credible sites
are and they can show you better ways to search the topic youre researching. Thirdly you
have to analyze all your research by organizing it, crediting the work from the sites or
books you found your information in also. When trying to cite sources properly you want
to use MLA or APA format. You can find websites online that will either cite your work
for you or it teaches you how to cite work on your own. Another step in finding

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information is an advanced internet search. You can do this by typing in key words or
using special phrases/symbols.
ii.

Theories of Fear
a. Freuds theory of the unconscious mind and why we respond to horror
fiction
b. Stephen Kings theory about why people like scary stories
c. The physiology of fear
d. The three sub-genres of horror

iii.

Elements of Fiction
When reading fiction novels or short stories you need to know if you have
a reliable or unreliable narrator. A reliable narrator tells you the whole
story and doesnt skip details or curve away from the truth while and
unreliable narrator does exactly that. In the book Crank Kristina/Bree was
an unreliable narrator due to her drug use and manipulative behavior. The
characters also play into the elements of fiction, there are two types of
characters, round and flat characters. Round characters have dimension,
the have diferent aspects in their personality and ou usually see more of
them in a story while flat characters are almost like background noise,
they are there but you very seldom notice it.
a. Realism in Fiction: How does an author create a sense of realism in
fiction? Is this important or even necessary in fiction? Provide examples
from your literature circle novel or one of the short stories you read in this
course.

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C. Thinking
The three reading strategies I have used in this semester were activating
prior knowledge, skimming and making connections. This has helped me
with thinking aspects of this course, especially when we did our novel
readings. I made connections with the real world while reading crank as
where I live there are people who are a lot like Kristina. Skimming also
helped me while doing the research report because it helped me read over
unnecessary things that werent needed. Activating prior knowledge also
helped me with the horror content in this semester since I enjoy watching
horror movies and I knew the visual aspects of what makes a movie scary.

i.

Listening Strategies
When working on speaking skills the three strategies that have helped me
were making eye contact, avoiding unnecessary words and varying my pace
and tone. Making eye contact helped because it makes you seem like you are
more confident and you have practiced your speech or whatever you are
saying to your audience. Avoiding unnecessary words helped me because I
learned to not say um or like as filler words and also using better synonyms
for like. Varying your pace and tone has helped me because I tend to talk
faster when doing speeches and understanding the tone makes you appeal
more to your audience.

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ii.

Writing strategies
When doing writing strategies I have figured that brainstorming, revising and
proofreading and using templates has helped the most. Brainstorming using a
mind map helps you think of topics and subtopics. Revising and proofreading
have helped me make sure that my grammar and sentences are correct. Using
templates ad examples as models have helped me create a better
essay/business letter/memo by giving me something to add onto ad make my
own.
E. Communication
I believe that I did the best on my personal essay, blog posts and memo. For
my blog post I met the criteria, and my communication skills grew as before I
would never actually record my own voice. My blog posts made the audience
clear, the purpose was intended to give the audience insight to what was
happening in the book. The memo was made out to a certain audience, I had a
semi-formal voice while making the memo and the structure could have been
better but I think it was okay.

F. Application
I can use the knowledge, skills, and strategies you developed in this class outside
of this class when reading text, continuing school and in the workplace when reading in
on an animals chart per say. Activating prior knowledge, skimming and making
connections will be the most useful for you in your future. For example activating prior
knowledge can help me in the workplace as my prior knowledge would be science and I

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want to work as a veterinarian technician. Listening skills will also help me in the work
place when someone is telling me what is possibly wrong with their pet.