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Rig your sheet
2 minutes · solo · paper + pencil · project out of your folder
One sheet, folded like a book. Cover: your name, "Day 19," the date. Then:
Page 1: THE REVIEW your partner's words land here, exact
Page 2: MY REVISION PLAN your fix list. Captain's Log goes at the bottom later.
Back cover: MY COURSE tomorrow's opener and your last fix
This sheet is your Voyage Journal entry for today. A review you can hold in your hand. Keep your partner's exact words. You will want them.
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The Last Cipher
at the door · with your crew · the league finale
One final message. Whoever leaves these saved the meanest slide for the end.
RIREL ZNC VF N FGBEL
GRYY LBHEF
The only clue: the slide is exactly HALF the alphabet.
THE STAKES: double points. 10 to the first crew, 4 to the second. And every crew that cracks it before the room build learns tomorrow's closing line a day early. Those crews LEAD the whole room in saying it tomorrow.
Crack it? Keep it quiet. Bring it to your teacher, written. The line stays secret until the whole room says it tomorrow.
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The Review
~35 minutes · pairs your teacher posts · both partners get both turns
Mapmakers never shipped a chart alone. A second navigator checked it first. Today you are each other's second navigator.
Your partner is not your best friend. On purpose. Your partner builds in a different format than you. Fresh eyes catch what yours skip.
Step 1: SHOW maker walks the partner through the work, like they are a visitor tomorrow. Two minutes. Then quiet.
Step 2: "I noticed..." reviewer names one exact thing that already works. Point at it.
Step 3: "I wonder..." ONE question a visitor might ask. Just one.
Step 4: "What if..." ONE change that would make the work stronger. Just one.
Step 5: WRITE + THANKS maker writes the question and the suggestion, word for word. Then says thank you.
Step 6: SWAP trade roles. Same steps, other direction.
REVIEWER'S CODE: one question, one suggestion. Not five. Choosing is the skill. Talk about the work, not the person. Makers: no defending. Write it down. You rule on it in the next block, not now.
LOG IT: THE REVIEW page holds your partner's "I wonder..." and "What if...", word for word. Their name signed under it. A real survey gets signed.
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Fix Their Thing First
~35 minutes · solo, performers with their cast · Chromebook only if your format needs one
You hold a real note from a real reviewer. Captains act on the survey before they sail. One rule runs this whole block:
THE PRIORITY RULE: fix the thing your partner named FIRST. Not the thing you feel like fixing. Feelings pick the easy fix. Your reviewer pointed at the real one.
- MY REVISION PLAN page. Line 1 is your partner's "What if..." Add two or three more fixes under it, biggest first.
- Work top to bottom. Cross each line off. A crossed line is proof you moved.
- Performers: your fix is rehearsal. Two full runs, start to finish, at real volume. No stopping mid-run. Fix between runs.
- Want the captain's eyes on something? Put your name on the CAPTAIN'S TABLE list on the board. Keep working. I come to you.
What finished looks like →
LOG IT: line 1 crossed off before anything else. Whole list done early? Add one polish line. Bigger title. Cleaner edges. Smoother words.
Fast finishers: walk your own station like a stranger. Stand where the visitor will stand. Say your opener out loud. Does the first glance tell them who and what?
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Set the Stage
10 minutes · every hand · crew assignments on the board
Tomorrow's room does not build itself. Ten minutes. Move like a crew docking a ship.
STATION CREW tables into stations, one per project, walking room between them
CARD CREW a table card at every station: project title, your name, your person's name. Readable from three steps away.
JOURNAL CREW one table by the door for the Voyage Journals, a few opened to strong pages
Last move, everyone: set your own station. Work displayed. Card placed. Chair out of the walkway.
Leave it ready tonight. Tomorrow morning you straighten. You do not build.
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Crew Pride Circle
4 minutes · one ring · after peer review
Last working circle before the Showcase. Around the ring: name one thing a crewmate built that deserves eyes tomorrow. Their name, their work, one sentence. Nobody names their own.
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The Question
2 minutes · think it, then write one line under your plan
What did your partner see in your work that you couldn't see yourself?
That is what peer review is for. Nobody sees their own map whole.
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Captain's Log
4 minutes · solo · in your captain's voice
The night before landfall. The whole voyage sits behind you.
LOG IT: bottom of MY REVISION PLAN. What is your captain proud of tonight? What still worries them about tomorrow? Two or three sentences. Date it like a sailor: "5 August 2026."
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Chart Your Course
3 minutes · solo · back cover, MY COURSE
Tomorrow you do not wander. You steer. Two lines:
- MY OPENER: the first sentence you say when a visitor stops at your station. Write it. Say it out loud once.
- MY LAST FIX: one small thing you do tomorrow morning if there is time. One. Not three.
The Showcase is tomorrow. You are not hoping you are ready. This list is how you know you are.
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Tomorrow, So Nobody Is Surprised
read together · the run of show in five lines
1. We straighten stations and run one last check. your MY COURSE list is the checklist
2. The doors open. Families, LEAP staff, museum guests. you stand at your station with your work
3. Visitors come to YOU. Opener first, then show your work. their questions are compliments. Answer them.
4. Performances get called up one at a time. The whole room watches. then back to stations
5. We close with one line, said together. the crews that cracked the last cipher lead it
No grades tomorrow. No points. Real people looking at real work you built. That is the whole game.
peer reviewrevisionprotocolrun of show
peer review = a crewmate checks your work before the world sees it ·
revision = seeing your work again and making it stronger ·
protocol = steps everyone agrees to follow the same way ·
run of show = the order of what happens at a live event