High School Student Portfolio Sampler (editable and fillable resource)

About Your Portfolio
This is your Portfolio Sampler. Included are examples that will help you complete your portfolio assignments. Each year, you will be instructed to complete assignments that should be added to your Portfolio. If you do this, the Fall semester of your senior year will be less hectic. All you will have to do is review and update the materials that you have on your flash drive. You will work on your portfolio throughout the school year in your homeroom class where your teacher will help you organize your portfolio.

Turning in a completed Portfolio is a High School graduation requirement. In May of your senior year, you will participate in a Senior Exit Interview. This is where adults from the community will evaluate your portfolio and interview each graduating senior.


After the Senior Exit Interview you may pick up your Portfolio in the Counseling Office and take it home. Your portfolio will be helpful to you in the future when applying for jobs, colleges, and scholarships. You will have a copy of your high school transcripts, names, addresses, and phone numbers of people you can use as references, letters of recommendation, a list of activities and awards, a job resume, a personal essay, a sample thank you letter and a sample letter of application.


If you continue to update the information on your computer disk you will have available a lot of the information that employers and colleges require on applications.


Table of Contents Page
Sampler Cover Page …………………………..............................…………1
About Your Portfolio ………………………………………………………….......2
Calendar of Portfolio Days ……………………………………………………..3
Table of Contents …………………………………………………………………...4
Cover Sheet ………………………………………………………………………...... 5
Portfolio Expectations for Each Grade Level (9-12) ..…...……… 6
Senior Portfolio Checklist ………………………………………………………..7
Junior Portfolio Checklist …………………………………………………………8
Sophomore Portfolio Checklist …………………………………………………9
Freshman Portfolio Checklist …………………………………………………….10
How to Write an Essay of Introduction ………………………………………11
Sample Essay of Introduction ……………………………………………………..12
Sample Personal Statement……………………………………………………….13
Identification ………………………………………………………………………..........14
Application to Graduate …………………………………………………………...15
Sample Letter of Application …………………………………………………….16
Sample Resume ………………………………………………………………….........17
Letter of Recommendation ………………………………………………………..18
Recommendation Form …………………………………………………………...19
Suggestions for Writing a Letter of Recommendation ……….....20
Sample Reference Page …………………………………………………………..21
Academic Summary …………………………………………………………….........22
Transcript …………………………………………………………………………..........23
Sample Thank You Letter …………………………………………………………24
Activities/ Awards Information Sheet ………………………………………25
Attendance ……………………………………………………………………..............26
Public Schools Expected Schoolwide Learning Results (ESLR’s) 27
Portfolio Rationale Sheet ………………………………………………………….28
Student Self Evaluation …………………………………………………………...29
Reflection of Youth Service Learning Experience …………………30
Book Project ……………………………………………………………………...........31
Senior Portfolio Evaluation Checklist………………………………………32
Professional Dress………………………………………………………………… 34


Portfolio Expectations for Each Grade Level

9th Grade:
Go over portfolio checklist
Work on Activities/awards info sheet (put in what you’ve accomplished)
Start your reference sheet (list 2 people: one from school, one from the community)
Start resume
Select work to put in your portfolio (at least one example for each ESLR)
Do a rationale sheet for each example of your work you’ve put in portfolio
Fill out and turn in a proposal for a youth learning service project (22 hrs to be done by end of yr.)
Start bibliography
Calculate your percentage of attendance

10th Grade:
Update anything you have on your flash drive
Update your activities/awards information sheet
Update your reference list (add a person you’ve worked for-paid or youth service learning)
Write an essay of introduction
Review/add to your collection of work
Do rationale statement for any new work you’ve added
Update your resume
Continue working on youth service learning hours (should have a total of 45 hrs. by end of year.)
Update bibliography
Calculate your percentage of attendance

11th grade:
Update anything you have on your flash drive
Update your activities/awards information sheet
Update your reference list (you should have 2 each from: school, community and work)
Update your essay of introduction
Update your resume
Review/add to your collection of work
Do rationale statement for any new work you’ve added
Write a thank you letter
Write a letter of application
Continue working on youth service learning hours (should have a total of 65 hrs. by end of year.)
Update bibliography
Calculate percentage of attendance

12th grade:
Update your flash drive (your resume, references, and essay of introduction, etc.)
Update and complete the activities/awards information sheet
Update your essay of introduction
Update your thank you letter
Update your letter of application
Update your reference list (you should have a total of 6 references listed)
Obtain 3 letters of recommendation from adults who are not relatives
Review your collection of work (have at least 1 - 2 for each ESLR)
Be sure you have done a rationale statement for each piece of work you have in your portfolio
Do a cover sheet for your portfolio
Have 2 photocopies of personal I.D. (one with a picture)
Have a copy of your HS transcripts (you’ll receive these from portfolio teachers)
Use the Portfolio Checklist to make sure you have everything completed
Finish youth service learning hours (85 hrs. total by May 1st)
Finish bibliography for all four years of high school
Calculate 12th grade and overall percentage of attendance
Do self-evaluation of how well you achieved ESLRs
Do an application for graduation