Conclusion

Groupwork

Over my whole life I have been working to get better and better at ownership. At the beginning of this year, if I made a mistake and someone asked who did it I would just sink into my chair to disappear. But now I always own up to my mistakes and tell people if I messed up even before people ask. I don’t have many good examples of it this year but I have a fun story about it from when I was young. So one time me and my family were going to Walgreens, keep in mind, I was five, anyway I really wanted some fruit mentos so I was like mom can I please have them, mom can I please have them throughout the whole store then we were at the checkout and I didn’t say anything, then were were getting in the car and I pulled out the mentos and I was like mom can I please have them, and then my mom got pissed and I was forced to go inside and take ownership for my mistake and say sorry. 

I try to be as helpful as I can when it comes to group work, because in a group if I don’t do something or mess something up, I don’t just let myself down but I let my whole group down so I try my hardest. Something I helped a lot in was the Silk Road project in art, I made more than half of the 3D element and helped with painting some of it, making the 3D element of it was really hard because of all the angles I had to cut out just right but also because of all the gluing because gluing all of it took a long time. Also I helped a lot in making the timeline for our posters because I did a lot of it by myself making the drawing, writing down the dates and finding a lot of the dates, while my group worked on the other posters.

Respect, I always try to respect my partners. I respect them by listening to them like their ideas and opinions and taking that into consideration, also I respect them by helping them if they need any help, and letting them do what they want to do. But sometimes I have a hard time respecting their opinions when I don’t like it, during the making of our story exhibition video my group wanted it to be like an interrogation like who did the crime type of interrogation, but I thought it did not make sense because we were talking about TVs and there was no prompt to it, I mean like why would a cop want to interrogate someone for no reason, it just didn’t make sense to me, so I tried to change their minds but they stood strong, and then I started getting aggressive and mad, but eventually I gave up. So to my group I’m sorry for getting mad at you guys. 

Overall Growth

This year there have been a lot of things that I have been proud of because we've done a lot of hard stuff but I think that I'm most proud of our exhibitions, they have been really hard but I think that we’ve gotten really good at them. I think that we have prepared a lot for 8th grade, we have done multiple essays, hard exhibitions, and lots of homework, so I think we will be ready for 8th grade.

Conclusion

To end this I would like to thank everyone for being here, 8th graders see you in a while, and 6th graders your fun is just beginning. I bet everybody's identity has changed a lot throughout this year. 6th, this is your first year in middle school and 8th, this is your last, and for the 7th graders, I know all of us have worked really hard this year and have been through a lot of changes.I'll see you all next time.