10th Grade — Passion Project Critique & Revision

⏰ Do Now — Start Here

What kind of feedback actually helps you improve work -- vague praise, or something specific? Why?

🎯 Today's Big Question

What does this project become with one more real round of feedback?

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

Give specific, actionable feedback on a classmate's passion project using this year's critique language.
Receive feedback on their own project without becoming defensive.
Make at least one genuine, visible revision based on real feedback.

🧰 What You'll Need

Finished passion project draft
Critique protocol from earlier this year

📋 Your Plan for Today

Day 1: Critique

Structured peer critique (35 min): using this year's critique language, give and receive specific feedback in small groups.

Day 2: Revise

Independent work (35 min): make at least one real, visible revision based on the feedback received.

🖥️ 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

⬇️ Open / download this slide PDF

📚 Key Words

Actionable Feedback: Feedback specific enough that the person receiving it knows exactly what to do next.

✅ What Your Finished Work Should Include

Revision checked for a genuine, visible change directly traceable to real feedback received.

Exit Ticket: What specific piece of feedback 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 “Passion Project Critique & Revision.” This project asked: “What does this project become with one more real round of feedback?” I used Actionable 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: Revision under real feedback is daily reality in every studio career on this site.

Go further -- turn this into a portfolio piece:

Get feedback from someone outside class (a family member, a teacher in another subject) and compare it to classmate feedback. Start here: write down your classmates' feedback points as a short list first, before you ask the outside person, so you can compare answers side by side instead of relying on memory.
Write a before/after post showing the revision and what changed. Start here: save your original file under a new name (v1) before making a single edit, so you have the actual before file to screenshot later.