10th Grade — Peer Critique & Revision Sprint

⏰ Do Now — Start Here

Think of feedback you've gotten before that actually helped you improve something. What made it useful?

🎯 Today's Big Question

How does structured peer feedback help us improve our strongest projects?

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

Give structured, specific feedback on 2 classmates' projects using the class rubric.
Select one of their own earlier projects to revise based on feedback received.
Complete a meaningful revision addressing at least 2 pieces of feedback.

🧰 What You'll Need

Finished projects from earlier this semester (pin, business card, or ink portrait)
Class rubrics for reference

📋 Your Plan for Today

Day 1: Peer Critique Rotation

Do Now (5 min, above).
Mini-lesson (8 min): review structured critique vocabulary and sentence starters.
Peer critique rotation (27 min): critique 2 classmates' projects (pin, business card, or ink portrait) using the class rubric.
Share (5 min).

Day 2: Revision Sprint

Do Now (5 min): pick which project you're revising and why.
Independent revision (35 min): revise one project based on feedback received, addressing at least 2 specific notes.
Share (5 min).

🖥️ 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.)

Day 1

⬇️ Open / download this slide PDF

Day 2

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📚 Key Words

Structured Feedback: Feedback organized around specific criteria (like a rubric) rather than general impressions.

✅ What Your Finished Work Should Include

Revised project scored with a rubric: at least 2 specific pieces of feedback visibly addressed.

Exit Ticket: What is one piece of feedback that changed your project the most?

📊 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 “Peer Critique & Revision Sprint.” This project asked: “How does structured peer feedback help us improve our strongest projects?” I used Structured Feedback by ______________ (explain how you used it in THIS piece). The hardest part was ______________, and I solved it by ______________. I'm proud of ______________ because ______________.

🔗 Want to Learn More?

No extra links for this lesson.

🚀 The Extra Mile

Cross-Class Connection: The same structured peer-review protocol an English class writing workshop runs.

Career Connection: Fast, focused revision under a real deadline is daily life in Advertising & Marketing and Web Design agency work.

Go further -- turn this into a portfolio piece:

Run a formal critique session on a friend's non-art project (an essay, a presentation) using this same feedback structure. Start here: write out the critique structure's actual steps or questions on an index card before the session, so you follow the same protocol instead of just giving casual opinions.
Document a full before/after revision of your strongest piece this unit as a real process page for your portfolio. Start here: export and save the "before" version as its own file right now, before you touch it again — you can't document a before/after without a real saved before.