11th Grade — Rising Senior Send-Off: Portfolio Lock & Summer Plan

⏰ Do Now — Start Here

If this portfolio is a snapshot of who you are as a designer right now, what does it say about you?

🎯 Today's Big Question

Looking back at this entire year, what does the evidence actually say about how far you've come?

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

Finalize and "lock" the year's portfolio as a complete, polished body of work.
Write a specific summer and senior-year plan naming at least one concrete design goal.
Reflect on growth across the full year, from foundations through the PBAT and this final specialization unit.

🧰 What You'll Need

Full-year portfolio
Reflection template

📋 Your Plan for Today

Day 1: Finalize

Independent work (35 min): review and finalize every page of the portfolio, fixing anything unfinished or unclear.

Day 2: Reflect & Plan

Written reflection (20 min): growth across the full year.
Plan (15 min): a specific summer/senior-year design goal.

🖥️ 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

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Day 2

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📚 Key Words

Portfolio Lock: Finalizing a portfolio as a complete, intentional snapshot at a specific point in time.

✅ What Your Finished Work Should Include

Finalized portfolio assessed for completeness and polish; reflection and plan checked for specific, genuine evidence and a realistic next step.

Exit Ticket: What's the one specific goal you're carrying with you into 12th grade?

📊 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 “Rising Senior Send-Off: Portfolio Lock & Summer Plan.” This project asked: “Looking back at this entire year, what does the evidence actually say about how far you've come?” I used Portfolio Lock 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 5: Publishing Digital Media

🔗 Want to Learn More?

No extra links for this lesson.

🚀 The Extra Mile

Cross-Class Connection: The same reflective, structured writing an English class capstone project demands.

Career Connection: This IS the portfolio-packaging step named on nearly every career page on this site.

Go further -- turn this into a portfolio piece:

Publish the locked portfolio live and share it somewhere it could actually be seen. Start here: do a final click-through of every page and link before you share the URL anywhere.
Write a "where I'm headed" post connecting your plan to a specific career from the hub. Start here: name the one specific career from the hub first, then write backward from it to your current work, not forward from your work to a vague goal.