12th Grade — After Graduation, By Design: Present & Get Feedback

⏰ Do Now — Start Here

What's the question about your plan you're most nervous someone might ask -- and do you actually have an answer?

🎯 Today's Big Question

How does it feel to present a plan for your own actual future, not a hypothetical client's?

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

Present their after-graduation plan to a real audience (a small group, an advisor, or family).
Answer follow-up questions about the plan's specifics under real, low-stakes pressure.
Revise the presentation based on at least one piece of real feedback received.

🧰 What You'll Need

Finished after-graduation presentation
Small presentation space

📋 Your Plan for Today

Day 1: Present

Presentations (35 min): each student presents to a small group and answers at least one follow-up question.
Notes (10 min): record the feedback received.

Day 2: Revise

Independent work (35 min): make at least one real revision to the presentation based on yesterday's feedback.
Finalize (5 min): save the final version to your portfolio.

🖥️ 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

Follow-Up Question: A question someone asks after a presentation to test whether you really understand what you presented.
Revision: A real change made to a finished piece based on outside feedback, not just a second look at your own work.

✅ What Your Finished Work Should Include

Presentation delivered with a real answer to at least one follow-up question; final version shows a genuine, specific revision from feedback.

Exit Ticket: What did you change after feedback, and why did that change make the plan stronger?

📊 Before You Leave

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

Class Check-In

📁 Portfolio Update — Once a Week

Once a week, add your best finished or in-progress yearbook (or, later, studio) work to your portfolio with a 1-2 sentence caption -- and once you're in the Design Studio phase, a photo of the piece in its real, installed location if possible. This is the same evidence trail you'll use for Archive & Portfolio and any PBAT/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 “After Graduation, By Design: Present & Get Feedback.” This project asked: “How does it feel to present a plan for your own actual future, not a hypothetical client's?” I used Follow-Up Question 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 real-audience presentation skill as a PBAT or a Theater final.

Career Connection: Direct practice for a real college interview or job interview.

Go further -- turn this into a portfolio piece:

Present to an actual college advisor, employer, or family member outside class. Start here: schedule the actual meeting with a specific person and date this week before revising anything else.
Revise and publish the final version as a public portfolio page. Start here: read the plan out loud once before publishing, and cut any sentence that doesn't sound like something you'd actually say.