Optional: Review Day
Navigation Instrument, Targeted Practice, and an Honest Conversation
Use this day before the Unit 1 assessment to strengthen self-assessment habits and target specific gaps.
The first year teaching this unit required two review days. With the differentiation day built into the sequence and the daily quizzes removed, one review day — or none — may be sufficient for content readiness.
That said, even when a review day is not strictly necessary, I recommend holding one early in the year. The habit of using the navigation instrument as a genuine self-assessment tool is one of the most valuable things students can develop in this course, and it takes time to build. A review day before Unit 1 assessment gives students a low-stakes opportunity to practice that habit: open with the instrument, identify a specific gap, work on it, close by updating the instrument again. Students who experience this process early — and see that it actually works — are students who will need fewer review days later in the year. The investment here pays forward.
If you do hold a review day: open with 10 minutes on the navigation instrument, have students identify their specific weakest row, spend the bulk of class on targeted practice drawn from the problem set, and close by updating the instrument again. If you already know from the navigation instrument that specific students or the whole class has a particular gap, make the practice targeted rather than general. There is no reason to review what students already know when time is limited.