Portfolios are collected three times, and count for 5% each time.

The most important component of the portfolio is your reflection on your online participation.

This assignment asks you to compile the agenda items you posted, the most productive online conversations in which you participated, and thoughtful expansions of agenda items that you found particularly intersting. It also asks you to reflect on your developing understanding of key concepts and issues that we have been discussing.

If you post about one well-thought-out follow-up a week, including brief quotations from the literary works and supplemental materials we have been studying, then the portfolio assignment will be easy. If you fall behind, you'll have to do a lot of writing to catch up, and the activity won't be as rewarding. (More details will be announced after everyone in the class has had some time to learn and adjust to the online environment where we'll be working.)