Due Dates:Typed Draft April 9, Final on April 14
My Plan Essay
The Extended Application
(EA) is an Oregon graduation requirement. In Portland Public Schools, the
EA is fulfilled when, during their senior year, students write a “My Plan
Essay”. This is a formal reflection of a student’s high school experiences related
to college and career, future plans, and goals. The My Plan Essay supports the
district’s goal for every PPS student to graduate college and career ready with
an informed post-high school plan. When you receive a meeting score on your
essay, you will need to upload it to your Naviance account.
In your My Plan Essay,
you will need to address the following three areas:
- Explain your career
aspirations and your educational plan to meet these goals. Clearly
articulate both short and long term goals and describe the interests,
skills, and experiences that helped you develop your post-high school
plan.
- Explain how you have helped
your family or made your community a better place to live. Provide
specific examples and include what you learned from these experiences. How
did these experiences help to inform your post-high school plan?
- Describe a personal
accomplishment and the strengths and skills you used to achieve it.
Consider your growth during your four years in high school. How will this
experience serve you in your future?
Must score a “Meets” or better in all areas to meet requirements
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Exceeds
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Meets
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Needs Improvement
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Ideas & Content
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· Each of the three areas identified in
the prompt is addressed thoroughly.
· Evidence is thorough, in-depth, and
insightful.
· Supporting
details are rich, interesting and carefully chosen for audience and purpose.
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· Each of the three areas identified in
the prompt is addressed.
· Shows evidence of new learning,
ideas, results, or conclusions appropriate to the student’s personal,
academic, and/or career interests and post-high school goals.
· Main
ideas are supported with specific details.
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· One or more of
the three main areas identified in the prompt is not addressed.
· Evidence
is weak, incomplete, inappropriate, or limited in some way.
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Supporting details may be too general or off topic.
· Essay
may be too short, without enough ideas or details
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Organization
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· The reader can follow the writing
easily; ideas and details are placed in an order that moves the reader right
along.
· Connecting words and phrases: smooth;
effective; make the writing easy to follow from one part to the next.
· Paragraph
breaks are used effectively.
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· The reader can follow the writing;
ideas and details are placed in an order that makes sense.
· Connecting words and phrases help the
reader follow from one part to the next.
· Paragraph
breaks are there and are helpful.
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· The reader has a hard time following
the writing and may be confused often; ideas and details are not in an order
that makes sense.
· Connecting words and phrases are
repetitive; points may be numbered or bulleted.
· Few or no
paragraph breaks
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Spelling
Punctuation
Grammar
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· May be a few
minor errors.
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· Some errors,
but few major errors; the most important rules are followed most of the time.
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· So many basic errors
that the reader has a hard time figuring out what the writer is trying to
say.
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