Compile a reflective, resume-style summary of the year's reading life, including texts completed, skills mastered, and a goal for next year.
A resume, in the working world, is a concise, organized summary of someone's real accomplishments, prepared to represent them well. This week's capstone project borrows that format for something worth taking just as seriously: a full year of real reading growth, organized clearly enough that you -- or anyone else -- could see exactly what you accomplished at a glance.
Build your reading resume with clear categories: "Texts Completed" (The Call of the Wild, Crispin, plus any personal choice-reading titles from this year), "New Genres or Traditions Tried" (from week 29's genre stretch, and the medieval world literature traditions studied this unit), "Skills Mastered This Year" (name specific ones: annotation, theme-tracing, comparing sources, detecting loaded language, synthesis note-taking, delivering a persuasive book talk), "Proudest Piece of Writing" (choose one specific piece and say why), and "One Goal for Next Year" (something specific and honestly chosen, not a vague wish).
Mastery looks like: They can produce a specific, well-organized reading resume covering completed texts, named skills, a proudest piece of writing, and one checkable goal for next year.
Common stumbles: Filling categories with vague, unverifiable statements instead of specific texts, named skills, and a checkable goal.
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