🗓️ Before Class: Teacher Prep
- Gather/set out: The printed yearbook, Distribution/signing space.
- 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.
🧑🏫 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.
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
- What does it feel like to see a project you helped produce actually reach the people it was made for?
📈 Learning Objectives
By the end of this lesson (1 Day), students will be able to:
- Participate in distributing the finished, printed yearbook to the student body.
- Reflect specifically on the gap between the planning-stage yearbook from Phase 1 and the real, finished, physical object.
- Collect at least one piece of real reaction from a classmate who received the book.
📐 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.
Industry Standards (CCTC)
- AR-PRT 1 — Manage the printing process including customer service and sales, scheduling, production and quality control to deliver products that meet customer needs and expectations.
📚 Key Vocabulary
- Distribution
- Getting a finished product into the hands of the actual people it was made for -- the last, often-overlooked step of production.
- Finished Object
- A design project in its real, physical, final form -- not a file on a screen anymore.
🧰 Materials & Tools
- The printed yearbook
- Distribution/signing space
🧠 Do Now (Warm-Up)
Back in the fall, this book was a shared Drive folder and a tracking spreadsheet. What do you think it'll actually feel like to hold it?
📋 Main Workshop / Lesson Sequence
- Do Now (5 min, above). Distribution event (30 min): help distribute the yearbook to students, and collect at least one real reaction or comment from a classmate. Written reflection (15 min): compare the finished, physical book to what you imagined back in Phase 1, and name one specific thing you're proud your section contributed.
✅ Assessment & Exit Ticket
Participation in distribution; reflection checked for a specific, genuine comparison between the planned and finished product.
Exit Ticket: What's the one page or section of this book you're proudest to have your name attached to?
📊 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.