Portfolios are collected three times.

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

The portfolio asks you to choose several agenda items and follow up -- that is, write out and post a well-thought-out response to some of the most interesting agenda items -- your own, or ones that your peers posted. 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.)