11th Grade — ACP Vocabulary Bootcamp Review Game

⏰ Do Now — Start Here

Without looking anything up, list as many vocabulary terms from this year as you can in 90 seconds.

🎯 Today's Big Question

How much of this year's ACP-related vocabulary can we recall and apply?

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

Recall and correctly define at least 20 vocabulary terms from across the year.
Apply vocabulary in a game-based, low-stakes review setting.
Identify personal areas of strength and weakness before the ACP exam and PBAT.

🧰 What You'll Need

Index cards or a class set of the year's vocabulary terms
Simple game materials (points board, timer, or team markers)

📋 Your Plan for Today

Day 1: Team Review Game, Round 1

Do Now (5 min, above).
Mini-lesson (5 min): explain the game rules and team setup.
Team review game (25 min): teams compete to define and use vocabulary terms correctly.
Debrief (10 min): which terms tripped teams up the most?

Day 2: Round 2 & Self-Check

Do Now (5 min): pick 2 terms you personally want to review. Team review game, round 2 (25 min): a second round covering the trickiest terms plus new ones.
Self-check (10 min): list your 3 strongest and 3 weakest vocabulary areas.
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

⬇️ Open / download this slide PDF

📚 Key Words

ACP Exam Domain: One of the 5 major skill categories the Adobe Certified Professional exam is organized around.

✅ What Your Finished Work Should Include

Participation + self-check list reviewed; no formal grade -- this is a low-stakes review day.

Exit Ticket: Name your 2 strongest vocabulary areas from this year and 1 you still want to review before the ACP exam.

📊 Before You Leave

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

Class Check-In

📁 Portfolio Update — Once a Week

Once a week (e.g. every Friday, or your class's last meeting of the week), add your best finished or in-progress work to a running portfolio folder with a 1-2 sentence caption: what it is, what skill or standard it shows. This becomes your formal Google Sites portfolio in Unit F -- keep it current all year so you're not scrambling right before your PBAT and portfolio review.

✍️ 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 “ACP Vocabulary Bootcamp Review Game.” This project asked: “How much of this year's ACP-related vocabulary can we recall and apply?” I used ACP Exam Domain 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 1: Working in the Design Industry · Domain 2: Project Setup and Interface · Domain 3: Organizing Documents · Domain 4: Creating and Modifying Visual Elements · Domain 5: Publishing Digital Media

🔗 Want to Learn More?

ACP Exam Prep Section (all domains, practice questions)

🚀 The Extra Mile

Cross-Class Connection: The same active-recall game format that works for a Regents vocabulary review in any subject.

Career Connection: ACP vocabulary fluency is directly tested and referenced across multiple career pages on this site.

Go further -- turn this into a portfolio piece:

Design the actual review game (board, cards, or digital slides) as real, reusable material for next year's class. Start here: pick your game format — Kahoot-style, physical cards, or a board — before you write a single question.
Build an illustrated glossary of your ten hardest ACP terms — genuinely useful study material to share. Start here: list your ten hardest terms ranked by how unsure you are, then illustrate the top one before the rest.