Portfolio Essays Assignment Sheet
  Due Dates

Citizenship Essay due Monday, May 5
Postsecondary Essay due Monday, May 12
Work Ethic Essay due Monday, May 19
Issue of Concern Essay due Tuesday, May 27

Citizenship Essay

Write an essay in which you discuss how you anticipate meeting the personal challenges and responsibilities of citizenship in your community and/or the world. (200 words or less)

Postsecondary Education and Career Goals Essay

Write an essay in which you state your postsecondary and career goals and summarize your plan to achieve them. Your essay should include a discussion of education and its role in your future plan. (200 words or less)

Work Ethic Essay

Write an essay responding to one of the following statements regarding the value of work and the work ethic. (200 words or less)

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one wordexcellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” Pearl Buck

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas A. Edison

“My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told be to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.”
Indira Ghandi

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
James M. Barrie

“Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to be an overnight success.” Diana Rankin

“Far and away the best prize that life offers in the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Theodore Roosevelt

An Issue of Concern Essay

Discuss an issue of personal, local, national, or international concern, and it’s importance to you. (300 words or less)