# Day 187 · Leave the next start clear

**Purpose:** design an after-use return/pause routine while preserving finished work. [C13](../contexts/C13.html)/[C14](../contexts/C14.html), [H07](../home/H07.html)/[X07](../projects/X07.html). C-first becomes eligible only after this actual instruction and actor/result/unknown practice.

1. Ask which part is finished work and which part would help the next start. Capture an own return idea; no old product is assumed.
2. Name ready, used and next-ready positions/status. A saved drawing can remain intact; this is not a tidiness or obedience assessment.
3. Use one route. Record actual return where performed or proposed return where merely communicated.
4. After capture, read [C13](../contexts/C13.html)'s actual returned blank sheet with no next use, and [C14](../contexts/C14.html)'s explicit unperformed return proposal. Point to their different evidence.
5. Invite a meaningful pause/keep option. Ask what still needs doing or checking before an actual later start, without announcing a new successful use.
6. Keep specific return steps and open next-use evidence. If “ready again” is offered as proof of another start, locate the actual supplied event before judging.

**Routes:** draw an own keep-work/next-start plan; place a suitable broad blank part in an agreed waiting position while retaining the finished sheet; tell/direct a pause-and-return routine in usual communication. Do not require all three or dismantling valued work.

**Notice/next teaching:** restoration serving a chosen purpose, not generic compliance. Use an unrelated “put back / no second use line” story to teach a missing result boundary. C-first is a new held source, not [C13](../contexts/C13.html) rehearsal.

[Short child start](../child/day-187.html) · [Read together](../narration/day-187.html) · [Blank own mats](../aids/INDEX.html).

Modified from [Prep alignment](https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/aciqv9/technologies/curriculum/ac9_tech_design_prep_as_cd_alignment.pdf), [Prep standard elaborations](https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/aciqv9/technologies/assessment/ac9_tech_design_se_prep.pdf) and [Prep techniques and conditions](https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/aciqv9/technologies/assessment/ac9_tech_design_technique_cond_prep.pdf), © State of Queensland ([QCAA](https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/copyright)) 2023, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), subject to item exceptions. Original stories, tasks, criteria and pictures are SubjectNest work. No endorsement.

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