# Slides 7.12: Year Reflection and Portfolio

Slide outline for Lesson 7.12. Nine slides, one day, the last day of the course. Deliberately short: the period is twelve minutes of assembling, nine minutes of writing in silence, and six minutes of a closing round, and slides should not compete with any of that. **Slide 3 stays up through the assembling block.**

## Slide 1: Year Reflection and Portfolio

- Unit 7, Lesson 7.12, the last day
- Today: one folder, with your name on it
- It goes home with you
Image: a two-pocket folder with a handwritten name label, closed, on a desk.
Notes: Every student's named folder is on their desk next to their FACS folder before the bell. The year's loose paper is sorted into six piles by unit on the counter. `Rubric 07` is back, complete, with all six criteria and the total. The posters from yesterday are still up so the room looks like the year.

## Slide 2: Do now

- Write down one thing you can do now that you could not do on the first day of school
- Anything. It does not have to be big
Notes: Take six answers out loud and do not comment on any of them. Then the hook: hold up one empty labeled folder. "In forty minutes this has a year of proof in it and your name on the front. And then you take it home, because it is yours, not mine."

## Slide 3: Twelve items

**The six from these two weeks:**
- Your resume
- Your three-part answer
- Your STAR story
- The interview feedback sheet a peer filled in about you
- Your team's pitch materials
- Your team's numbers page

**One artifact from each unit. You choose which:**
- Unit 1 Kitchen Skills. Unit 2 Money. Unit 3 Growing Up
- Unit 4 Spaces. Unit 5 Make It Mend It. Unit 6 Farm to Table
Notes: Point at the six counter piles. Twelve minutes. Circulate to the students whose checklist is empty and hand them their own lab rubric from the pile.

## Slide 4: One line per item. What does it PROVE?

- Not what you did
- What you can **do**
- Example: "This is Lab 3. It proves I can prepare and serve a dish for a station of seven inside a forty-minute period, on a written time plan"
Notes: Model that one on the board with an actual lab rubric in your hand. The push question, asked twice out loud: **"That is what you did. What can you DO?"** It is the same move as the resume bullet and students already know it.

## Slide 5: The year reflection. Four questions.

1. **What can you do now that you could not do in September?** Name what in the folder proves it
2. **What was the hardest thing?** What made it hard, and did it get easier? **If it did not, say that**
3. **What are you proudest of?** It does not have to be your best grade. Point at it
4. **What skill will you use first, and WHEN?** A real week, a real month, a real situation. **"Someday" is not an answer**
Notes: Read all four aloud once, then say the rule: every answer names something in the folder. **You may write this in Turkish, Portuguese, or Spanish.** The thinking is the point.

## Slide 6: Nine minutes. Silent.

Notes: Leave this slide up with nothing else on it. **Write your own reflection at the front where they can see you doing it, and do not circulate for the first four minutes.** The room goes quiet because you did. Photograph the resume, the reflection, and the checklist for your own records during this block; it takes four minutes with a phone against a wall.

## Slide 7: Optional: what would you tell a sixth grader?

- One sentence
- If you say yes, it may get typed up with **no name on it** and posted on the wall in September
Notes: The ones who say yes are giving you the best first-day material you will ever have. Type them over the summer.

## Slide 8: The closing round

- One sentence each. Standing
- Any line from your reflection
- **You may pass**
- Nobody comments. Including me
Notes: Enforce the no-comment rule on yourself first. Not "that's great," not a nod, nothing. Twenty-seven sentences with no commentary is a serious thing and students can feel it. The teacher goes last, not first.

## Slide 9: Take the folder home

- Everything in it, you did
- I set the room up, I set the clock, and I asked the questions
- You cooked, you sewed, you measured, you costed it, and you stood up in front of four adults and said a price out loud
- **When somebody asks what you can do, do not tell them. Open it**
Notes: Say it, do not read it. Initial each checklist at the door as the folder goes out. Say "the folder goes home" one more time on the way out; students assume everything gets collected, and the fact that this one does not is the point of it.