10th Grade — Second-Year Send-Off: Portfolio Review & Summer Plan

⏰ Do Now — Start Here

Pull up your very first project from 9th grade. What's the most obvious difference between that and your newest work?

🎯 Today's Big Question

Looking back at two full years, what does the evidence actually show about how far you've come?

📈 By the End of Today, You Will Be Able To

Present their portfolio for a structured review, highlighting growth across both years.
Give specific feedback on a classmate's portfolio.
Write a specific summer/11th-grade plan naming at least one concrete design goal.

🧰 What You'll Need

Full portfolio (both years)
Reflection/goal-setting template

📋 Your Plan for Today

Day 1: Review

Structured peer portfolio review (35 min): present and receive specific feedback in small groups.

Day 2: Polish

Independent work (35 min): make final adjustments to the portfolio based on today's feedback.

Day 3: Reflect & Plan

Written reflection (20 min): growth across both years.
Plan (15 min): one specific summer/11th-grade design goal.

🖥️ Today's Slide Deck

Short, on-the-board pacing slides — project these to follow along. (The full details are in the handout above, not here.)

📚 Key Words

Growth Evidence: Specific, comparable work (not just a feeling) that proves real improvement over time.

✅ What Your Finished Work Should Include

Portfolio, reflection, and plan assessed for specific, genuine evidence of growth and a realistic next step.

Exit Ticket: What's the one thing 9th-grade you would be most surprised to see in your portfolio now?

📊 Before You Leave

Quick, anonymous class check-in -- takes less than a minute.

Class Check-In

📤 How You Submit This — For Credit

How you submit today's work depends on what kind of work it was. Physical/paper work (most of this semester so far): photograph it with a classroom camera, upload the photo from its SD card onto a computer, and save it into your portfolio -- that upload is your submission, and the physical piece itself is yours to keep, the same as in Grade 9 (your notebook is the one thing with a home base in the room, and even that's your call to bring home when you want it). Digital work (once you're producing files in Photoshop, second semester on): no camera needed -- instead, EXPORT the file. Export your finished project as a JPG, as a PNG, AND save a copy as a PSD (all three), then upload all three into your portfolio. Either way: the portfolio upload, with a description, is what actually counts as turning the assignment in for credit.

📁 Portfolio Update — Once a Week

Once a week, add your best finished or in-progress piece to your portfolio (the Google Drive folder you started in Grade 9, becoming your Google Sites portfolio in Lesson 10) with a 1-2 sentence caption: what it is, what tool/skill it used, and one thing you learned. Keep it current -- don't save it all for the portfolio-website lesson.

✍️ 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 “Second-Year Send-Off: Portfolio Review & Summer Plan.” This project asked: “Looking back at two full years, what does the evidence actually show about how far you've come?” I used Growth Evidence by ______________ (explain how you used it in THIS piece). The hardest part was ______________, and I solved it by ______________. I'm proud of ______________ because ______________.

🎓 ACP Exam Prep

This lesson connects to the Photoshop Adobe Certified Professional exam: Domain 5: Publishing Digital Media

🔗 Want to Learn More?

No extra links for this lesson.

🚀 The Extra Mile

Cross-Class Connection: The same reflective-writing skill an English class asks for in an end-of-year reflection essay.

Career Connection: A real portfolio review is exactly how hiring works across every career on this site.

Go further -- turn this into a portfolio piece:

Get a real portfolio review from an adult outside class and document their feedback. Start here: pull up your five strongest pieces in one place before the review, so the conversation has specific work to react to instead of your whole two-year archive.
Publish a "two years in" retrospective post (words and images) as a real, shareable piece. Start here: go back to your very first project file from grade 9 and place it next to your newest piece before writing a word, so the retrospective is built around an actual visual comparison.