After reading the portfolio guide, I am much less nervous about what the course has in store. Before reading the book, I had only ever heard of art portfolios so I was confused about what a writing portfolio might look like. Now I know that there are two main types of portfolios. They can either be physical or online. Online portfolios have more opportunities to include materials to help showcase yourself, such as music, pictures, or videos. There are various ways to organize each one, and I’m excited to learn which type of portfolio we will be making this semester.

I thought that the articles were extremely interesting as well. I believe that storytelling is innate to humans, I just think that how we tell stories differs from person to person. You can tell a lot about someone from the way they tell stories, so I can see where storytelling as a child affects our later personalities. Storytelling is a way to not only socialize but to learn. Making sure that children and people overall have good storytelling interactions is a huge way for us to grow together as a society.