12th Grade — Proofing & Teacher Approval Cycle

⏰ Do Now — Start Here

Why is it hard to catch your own typos, and why might someone else catch them more easily?

🎯 Today's Big Question

How do we catch errors and get every section approved before it goes to print?

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

Proofread their own section for spelling, grammar, and factual accuracy.
Complete a peer proofing pass on another team's section.
Submit a section for formal teacher approval using the class checklist, and act on any requested revisions.

🧰 What You'll Need

Section layouts (digital)
Teacher Approval Checklist
Printed proofs (if possible)

📋 Your Plan for Today

Day 1: Self-Proof

Do Now (5 min): why is it hard to catch your own typos? Self-proof (35 min): proofread your own section against the checklist (spelling, grammar, correct names/captions, photo credits).
Log issues found (5 min).

Day 2: Peer Proof

Do Now (5 min).
Peer proof (35 min): swap sections and complete a peer proofing pass, leaving specific written notes.
Debrief (5 min).

Day 3: Submit for Approval

Do Now (5 min): what's one note from your peer review you're addressing today? Final fixes (30 min): make fixes based on peer notes.
Submit (10 min): submit for formal teacher sign-off using the checklist.

🖥️ 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.)

📚 Key Words

Proof: A near-final version of a page checked carefully for errors before it's considered finished.
Peer Review: Having a classmate (not the original creator) check work for mistakes the creator might miss.
Revision Cycle: The back-and-forth of feedback and fixes that happens before final approval.

✅ What Your Finished Work Should Include

Sections scored against the Teacher Approval Checklist; only formally "Approved" sections move to the print step.

Exit Ticket: What is one error a peer caught in your section that you had missed yourself?

📊 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 “Proofing & Teacher Approval Cycle.” This project asked: “How do we catch errors and get every section approved before it goes to print?” I used Proof 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?

Teacher Approval Checklist (reference)

🚀 The Extra Mile

Cross-Class Connection: The same editing/proofreading discipline an English class demands before a final essay submission.

Career Connection: Working inside an approval cycle without missing a deadline is real, direct client-management experience for any studio career.

Go further -- turn this into a portfolio piece:

Design a proofing checklist (spelling, alignment, color) as a real reusable QA tool for the whole team. Start here: list the three mistakes that have shown up most often in your own proofs so far — build the checklist around those, not a generic list.
Track how many rounds of revision your section took and write a short reflection on what would speed up the process next time. Start here: open your actual file history or saved versions and count the real rounds before writing anything.