At the beginning of the year, my goal for respect was to acknowledge others' perspectives and agree diplomatically. 

I understood my goal to mean, that instead of just saying “no” or “that’s a bad idea” I should disagree kindly or find an agreement in the middle of what we both want. 

One example of me doing this is on our Adaptations of the First Americans when one of my partners wanted to build a different house than me, so we decided to make a totally different house and also ask our other partner. 

By the end of this year, I was doing this more and more. Another example was in our science exhibition when we all wanted to do different things so I said that we could all put our thoughts into it. In the end everybody got what they wanted and all ideas were incorporated like the video game.

At the beginning of the year, I demonstrated integrity by trying to always do the right thing, to try to never do anything wrong. One example is the Adaptations of the First American exhibition in humanities. I worked with my group to decide what I was going to make including the clothes they made, food, Houses, and helped out as much as I could. I told my group I would help out and do what I told them I would do. 

I understood integrity to mean doing the right thing when nobody's watching or telling you to. To understand that just because somebody doesn’t tell you to do a specific task, you can still do it.

By the end of this year, I realized integrity meant more. One of the biggest things I realized it meant was honesty. Integrity can be hard for some people, I came to Mountain not even knowing what Integrity means. One example of a project where I was showing honesty was in the Science Exhibition planning document. I told my group I would make the model, do the vision for the exhibition, and write about the sketch and design of the project we built. I wrote small paragraphs for each of these, and spent a while on making the model.

At the beginning of the year, I demonstrated effort by trying my hardest on all subjects, project, respect, and more.I understood effort to mean trying your hardest on your work and how well you did on it. One example of when I used effort a lot was in the columbian exchange cafe which was the last exhibition of the sixth grade year. One of the projects I put a lot of effort in was my menu for the exhibition. I tried hard to find ingredients that were one of the most important in what I was making. I also put a lot of effort into designing things and making it easy to read.

By the end of this year, I realized even more how much effort is, and how important it is to me. I always try to put as much effort as I can into things. One example of effort was a travel brochure for somebody traveling the Mayan area. I included things like vegetation, Mayan sites in the area, weather,Artifacts, and more. This project was one of my favorites, designing was fun as well as putting the information in. Instead of putting two to four sentences I put even more and tried my hardest to put in as much information as I could.

At the beginning of the year, I demonstrated refinement by trying to see any small mistakes, or anything that needed to be changed. One example of this was the argumentative essay. In this assignment we had to write an essay about an argument we were assigned, mine was if homework was beneficial or not, which I argued it was.I needed to go over my research and see if it matched the quotes that I got. I also needed to make sure that the text that I put in was correct and go through where I was researching. 

I understood refinement to mean only looking at small things in writing assignments. 

By the end of this year, I looked at other things to refine as well. One example is in the yearbook SIG. After I made the page I needed to check that everything was spelled right and that my pictures were connected on the topic. There were also things I needed to include on my page that needed a lot of refinement like if any parts of photos were going to be cut off.