12th Grade — Phase 1, Unit Y2: Content Collection: Collecting Senior Quotes & Baby Photos

🗓️ Before Class: Teacher Prep

Gather/set out: Tracking spreadsheet, Photo Submission Form responses, Class period(s) for direct follow-up.
Pull up today's slide deck (see 🖥️ Slide Deck below) so it's ready to project.
Heads-up -- This is a community project: Unlike a solo studio project, the yearbook only works if the whole class communicates, follows through on assigned sections, and treats classmates as teammates rather than competitors. Build in real check-ins, not just a due date.

🖥️ Slide Deck (project or share with students)

Short, on-the-board pacing slides for today's Do Now, agenda, vocabulary, and exit ticket -- the full detail lives in the handout above, not here.

Day 1

Open / download this slide PDF

Day 2

Open / download this slide PDF

🧑‍🏫 Substitute Teacher Guide

A scripted, step-by-step runsheet for today's class -- hand this to anyone covering the room who doesn't know the daily routine.

Day 1: 📋 Open Substitute Guide
Day 2: 📋 Open Substitute Guide

This is a community project

Unlike a solo studio project, the yearbook only works if the whole class communicates, follows through on assigned sections, and treats classmates as teammates rather than competitors. Build in real check-ins, not just a due date.

🎯 Essential Question

How do we make sure every senior's quote and baby photo actually gets collected and tracked?

📈 Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson (2 Days), students will be able to:

Follow up directly with classmates who haven't submitted a senior quote or baby photo yet.
Update the tracking spreadsheet accurately as new submissions come in.
Flag and escalate to the teacher any submissions with a missing consent or inappropriate content.

📐 Standards Alignment

CDOS (Career Development & Occupational Studies)

CDOS 2 — Integrated Learning -- students will demonstrate how academic knowledge and skills are applied in the workplace and other settings.
CDOS 3a — Universal Foundation Skills -- basic literacy, communication, and problem-solving skills required for a career.
CDOS 3b — Career Majors -- knowledge and skills required for success within a specific career pathway (here, Digital Design).

Industry Standards (CCTC)

AR-PRT 1-3 — Analyze scheduling processes to ensure timely completion of projects.

📚 Key Vocabulary

Follow-Up: Proactively reminding someone to complete something they haven't submitted yet.
Escalation: Raising an issue to the teacher when it's outside a student's authority to resolve -- a missing consent, or a submitted photo that breaks the photo content policy (any hand gesture other than a peace sign or thumbs-up).

🧰 Materials & Tools

Tracking spreadsheet
Photo Submission Form responses
Class period(s) for direct follow-up

🧠 Do Now (Warm-Up)

Look at the tracking spreadsheet. How many classmates are still missing a senior quote?

📁 Portfolio Update — Once a Week

Once a week, add your best finished or in-progress yearbook (or, later, studio) work to your portfolio with a 1-2 sentence caption -- and once you're in the Design Studio phase, a photo of the piece in its real, installed location if possible. This is the same evidence trail you'll use for Archive & Portfolio and any PBAT/portfolio review.

✍️ Example description for your Google Sites portfolio (fill in YOUR blanks -- don't just copy this):

For this piece, I made ______________ (name what you made) for “Collecting Senior Quotes & Baby Photos.” This project asked: “How do we make sure every senior's quote and baby photo actually gets collected and tracked?” I used Follow-Up by ______________ (explain how you used it in THIS piece). The hardest part was ______________, and I solved it by ______________. I'm proud of ______________ because ______________.

📋 Main Workshop / Lesson Sequence

This lesson spans 2 Days. Suggested pacing:

Day	Focus	Plan
Day 1	Follow-Up Sprint	Do Now (5 min): how many classmates are still missing a quote? Mini-lesson (5 min): how to follow up professionally and kindly. Follow-up sprint (30 min): pairs directly follow up with classmates flagged as missing a quote or baby photo, updating the spreadsheet live. Check-in (5 min).
Day 2	Review & Escalate	Do Now (5 min). Review (15 min): as a class, review flagged issues (missing consent, or a submitted photo with a hand gesture other than a peace sign/thumbs-up). Escalate (10 min): route issues to the teacher appropriately -- never quietly print a flagged photo, and never quietly reject one without the teacher's sign-off either. Continued follow-up (10 min): keep working the list for any remaining gaps. Celebrate (5 min): recognize any section that reached full coverage.

✅ Assessment & Exit Ticket

Spreadsheet coverage reviewed for completeness; escalations checked for being routed appropriately.

Exit Ticket: What percentage of the class has now submitted both a quote and (if applicable) a baby photo?

📊 Pull up the anonymous Class Check-In for students to fill out before they go.

🧩 Differentiation & Accommodations

English Language Learners: model every step live, then check in one-on-one; provide translated materials and vocabulary support as needed. Students with IEPs: apply the accommodations and modifications listed in each student's plan (examples include extended time, graphic organizers, speech-to-text tools, chunked instructions, and visual schedules). Students with attention-related needs: break tasks into short, checklist-driven steps and provide brief movement or focus breaks. Students ready for a challenge: take on a leadership role critiquing peers' work, extend the project with a second iteration, or research how today's skill is used professionally in the field.

🔗 Resources & References

None beyond this lesson's materials.