Substitute Teacher Guide • Grade 9 • Unit 3.5: Extension & Enrichment (Optional)

Redesign Challenge: Applying Peer Feedback — Day 1 of 2

Today's focus: Giving Feedback

✅ Before Students Arrive

Materials needed today:
- Portfolio work from Unit 3
- Sticky notes
- Pencils, colored pencils
Most students keep their class notebook at its usual spot in the room and use it every day (see routine below) -- but it's each student's own notebook, so a few may bring theirs from home instead. Either way, everyone should have one out.
Write today's Do Now on the board before the bell rings (see below).

📓 Daily Notebook Routine (students already know this)

Keep this going every day, in your class notebook: date today's entry, jot your Do Now response, add any new vocabulary word(s) from today's Key Vocabulary section (word + a quick picture + a simple definition in your own words), and take 60 seconds to sketch something connected to today's topic. This notebook is yours to study from, reference on projects, and pull evidence from later for your portfolio.

📁 Portfolio Update Reminder

Once a week (e.g. every Friday, or your class's last meeting of the week), photograph or save your best finished or in-progress piece from that week into your portfolio folder (a physical folder for now, or a Google Drive folder once one is set up) with a 1-2 sentence caption: what it is, and one skill it shows. In Grade 10 this becomes your Google Sites portfolio -- keep adding to it weekly from here on so you're not trying to reconstruct a whole semester of work at the end.

🗣️ Opening: Do Now

Write or project this, and have students start immediately:

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📋 Class Plan (step by step)

Step 1 — 10 min

🗣️ Say: "Today we're looking at ___." Then walk through the point(s) below at the front of the room.

📋 Mini-lesson (10 min): recap the "I notice / I wonder" protocol from earlier in Unit 3 -- what makes feedback useful vs. not useful (specific, kind, actionable).
Step 2 — 10 min

🗣️ Say: "Let's do the first one together, then you'll try the rest on your own."

📋 Guided practice (10 min): as a class, practice giving feedback on a sample piece.
Step 3 — 15 min

🗣️ Say: "Now it's your turn -- work on your own (or with your table) on the following."

📋 Independent peer critique (15 min): critique 2 classmates' pieces using sticky notes, the protocol, and design vocabulary.
Step 4 — 5 min

🗣️ Say: "Let's hear from a few people before we move on."

📋 Share (5 min).

🔑 Vocabulary Introduced Today

Critique: Structured, specific feedback on a piece of work, focused on what's working and what could improve.
Revision: Making a deliberate change to a piece of work based on feedback or a new idea.

✅ Wrap-Up: Exit Ticket

A few minutes before the bell, say: "Time to finish your exit ticket."

“What's one thing you changed based on feedback, and why? How is that similar to what might happen with a real client?”

Collect exit tickets (or have students leave them in the usual spot) for the regular teacher to review.

⏳ If You're Short on Time

Protect the Do Now and the Exit Ticket above all else -- those are how the regular teacher tracks daily progress. If a step above is optional/homework, or is a "share out"/discussion step, shorten or skip it first.

⏳ If Students Finish Early

Have them keep working in their notebook: add extra detail to today's vocabulary sketch, review previous vocabulary, or -- if this is a portfolio update week for this class -- work on their portfolio. Early finishers should never be idle or distracting to classmates still working.

📝 For the Regular Teacher (fill in ahead of time)

Regular teacher's name / how to reach them: ______________________________
Where finished work / exit tickets go: ______________________________
Front office extension / emergency contact: ______________________________
Anything else this class needs to know today: ______________________________