Portfolio Essay

Estrada 1

Darlene Estrada

English 2 / Period 5

Mr. Logan

May 11, 2012

Expected School Wide Learning Results

The portfolio essay has always been really easy for me these past two years. I always have trouble starting and brain storming about what to say. In the end I think I always end up with an amazing essay. What do you consider yourself like as a person? I believe that while you’re in school you should try and find yourself and what kind of person you really are like. I believe that I am a Complex Thinker and Effective Communicator. I thankfully have the ability to think my way out of complex situations. When I’m in Math class I always have the answers to the hardest questions, after I have solved them of course. When I have to write essays In my Spanish and English classes I think that I do a pretty darn good job in translating my insightful thoughts onto a piece of paper and turning it into a meaningfull message. The Expected School Wide Learning Results are ways that can help you find out who you are in life. They help you evaluate yourself and try to figure out how you should improve in your school work and life. I think I show my ESLRs the most in Algebra Two, Spanish Natives Two and English Two.

I have been in Spanish for Natives since I was a freshman. Now that I am a sophomore I have Spanish for Natives 2. Spanish was my first language ever spoken and I was always excited to learn about my history and the culture of my heratage. When I found out that it was kind of like English class but in Spanish I was sadly disappointed but I love it anyways. In Spanish you

Estrada 2

must show that you are a Complex Thinker and an Effective Communicator because we translate English messages into the Spanish language. We read many stories in this class and some are very interesting and some are so boring I don’t even remember the title or what it was about. Sometimes it is hard for me to start essays and now that I have to write them in Spanish it’s...