This portfolio includes a well made book talk video over the book Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles, an in depth theme analysis of the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a Pecha Kucha over the theme of Macbeth by William Shakespeare and how it connects to a modern day example of that theme, an analysis of a panel in the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, a response to a short story, and finally a series of blogs over various topics throughout the semester. I learned many things this year by reading all of these books. After analyzing these stories they all taught many good and useful lessons about the world today and how people act and treat each other by teaching lessons of history and how things were in the past. I accomplished a lot this semester with all the projects i have completed on this portfolio. I feel very successful and accomplished in being able to create a portfolio that not only looks good but has good substance as well. This portfolio addresses to many of the standards of english. This portfolio attends to comprehension as I had to comprehend what I was reading to break the story down and understand them so I could look deeper into the stories. It attends to analysis and developing theme as I had to analyze many aspects of the different books whether it was the theme or a panel in a graphic novel. Developing Ideas and critical thinking came in when I had to connect stories based in the past and connect it to things going on currently, it took a lot of imagination and deep thinking to develop those ideas. Which also addressed the English standard of making connections to the real world. There was also a lot of writing involved which improved my writing ability tremendously. I put a lot of hard work into this portfolio throughout this semester and I think it turned out really well.