Book Portfolio – Third Term -- Nonfiction
General Information and Helps
☞Dates to Remember: (Write these in your planner, if you haven’t already.)
By January 21: Find your book and hand in this form, filled out and signed by a parent or guardian. (Last day for any points on this is February 6.)
By February 24: Hand in book assignment.
☞ March 13 is the very last day any late or revised work will be accepted for points. (Write this in your planner, but have everything done on time or early so you don’t have to worry about it!)
Quality Standards for the Portfolio
Use 8 1/2" x 11" paper unless otherwise specified.
Do not use lined paper for illustrations.
Do not use paper with spiro-bits.
Work must be neat and legible.
The text must be typed or done in standard blue or black ink. Do not use pencil.
Take pride in your work.
Samples for Fact Sheets and Works Cited Page
The Top Ten Facts I Learned About Memory
by Reading Hmm?: The Most interesting book you’ll ever read about memory
1. “If you stashed away 1000 new bits of info every second of your life, you’d still be using only part of your total storage space.” p. 5
2. The brain has three main sections, and the sections that are most vital to memory, according to scientists, are the cerebrum and the cerebellum. p. 7 (This is just a sample. You’d have at least ten facts sheet.)
The Top Ten Facts I Learned About Memory
from Other Sources
1. According to a reference article in ScienceDaily, “The study of memory “has become one of the principal pillars of a new branch of science that represents a marriage between cognitive psychology and neuroscience, called cognitive neuroscience.” (This is just a sample. You’d have at least ten facts.)
Works Cited
Swanson, Diane. Hmm?: The Most interesting book you’ll ever read about memory. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2001.
Long Term Memory. (Level of Explanation: Beginner) The Brain from Top to Bottom. Retrieved January 17, 2008, from http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/d/d_07/d_07_cr/d_07_cr_tra/d_07_cr_tra.html [sponsored by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research]
Memory. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 17, 2008, from http://www.sciencedaily.com– /releases/2003/06/030606081111.htm
Murphy, Pat, and Paul Doherty. “Messing with Your Mind.” Retrieved January 17, 2008, from
http://www.exploratorium.edu/memory/messingwithyourmind/index.html
National Geographic Society. The Incredible Machine. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1986.
Pendick, Daniel. “This Is Your Brain On Booze.” Memory Loss & the Brain Winter 2007: Retrieved January 17, 2008, from http://www.memorylossonline.com/winter2007/alcohol_brain.html
See page 761 in our Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar text. Use the MLA Style for Listing Sources found on page 761. Another sample Works Cited List is found on page 764.
Utah State Core: ILO’s 1.a.b., 2.b., 5.a-e., 6.d., Standard 1. Objective 2, Standard 2 Objectives 1 and 3, Standard 3 (inquiry/research) Objectives 1 and 2.
