10th Grade — Unit 12: Going Further: Expanding Your Portfolio Website

🗓️ Before Class: Teacher Prep

Gather/set out: Portfolio website (Google Sites, from earlier this year), This unit's finished projects.
If today includes physical/hands-on work: make sure the classroom cameras are charged, working, and have a cleared SD card ready for photo uploads.
Pull up today's slide deck (see 🖥️ Slide Deck below) so it's ready to project.

🖥️ 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.

🧑‍🏫 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.

🎯 Essential Question

How do we make sure a growing body of work still reads as organized, not cluttered?

📈 Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson (3 Days), students will be able to:

Add the video project, the personal mark, and the passion project to their existing portfolio site.
Reorganize site navigation so new and old work are both easy to find.
Write a short caption for each new piece explaining what it is and why it's there.

📐 Standards Alignment

CDOS (Career Development & Occupational Studies)

CDOS 1 — Career Development -- students will be able to explain the range of career choices, and identify personal interests, skills, and aptitudes that relate to those choices.
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.

ACP (Adobe Certified Professional) Photoshop Exam Objectives

ACP 5.1 — Prepare images for export to web, print, and video.

🎓 Study this for the ACP exam: Domain 5: Publishing Digital Media

📚 Key Vocabulary

Site Navigation: The menu/structure that lets a visitor find their way around a website without getting lost.

🧰 Materials & Tools

Portfolio website (Google Sites, from earlier this year)
This unit's finished projects

🧠 Do Now (Warm-Up)

If a stranger landed on your portfolio homepage right now, would they know where to click first?

📤 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 “Expanding Your Portfolio Website.” This project asked: “How do we make sure a growing body of work still reads as organized, not cluttered?” I used Site Navigation 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 3 Days. Suggested pacing:

Day	Focus	Plan
Day 1	Add Work	Independent work (35 min): add the video, personal mark, and passion project to the site with initial captions.
Day 2	Reorganize	Independent work (35 min): rework navigation/structure so the growing site stays easy to browse.
Day 3	Polish	Independent work (30 min): proofread captions and check every link works. Peer check (10 min).

✅ Assessment & Exit Ticket

Portfolio assessed for clear organization, working navigation, and specific captions on every new piece.

Exit Ticket: What changed about how you organized the site once you had more work to fit into it?

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

🧩 Differentiation & Accommodations

English Language Learners: provide translated or bilingual glossaries, visuals, and sentence frames; pair with a peer for meaningful participation. Students with IEPs: provide extended time, step-by-step checklists, and one-on-one or small-group support as specified in each student's plan. Attention-related needs: break the task into smaller steps, use visual timers, and minimize distractions. Students who finish early: extend the task by adding a second design variation, mentoring a classmate, or writing a short reflection connecting today's skill to a career pathway.

🔗 Resources & References

None beyond this lesson's materials.