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Dear Future Me,

I hope your doing well and had a good summer. Hopefully you did something productive and didn’t do nothing at all over the summer. I'll start with things that I am liking right now, Destiny and Fortnite. Is destiny still fun and are you still playing, and is Fortnite still huge? Right now I am doing many final projects for classes and hopefully will do well on them. I am doing the best in math currently and hopefully I will be doing good again next year. Did you work over the summer, and are you saving up for a computer? Did you finally get a new lacrosse stick?

The point of this letter is to see how much I changed throughout the year. I am definitely not the most engaged person is classes but I have raised the amount I talk in class from very little to little. I am setting a goal for you to talk more in classes. One thing I have learned this year that was very helpful was time management. Learning correct time management was a huge help for my grades and because of it all of them have raised a good amount in the fourth quarter. Next year you have to keep up the good time management, it will be very helpful.

From,

Past Charley.

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The assignments below are all relating to me describing who I am. The first is an activity from one of the first days of school and I was asked to write about what my name means to me. In the beginning of the year and really my whole life I did not like my name. I thought it was to fancy and not the right name for me. I still have the same thoughts now. I don’t like my name and I don’t think that will change for a long time. This however does not mean I don’t like myself, it just means I don't like my name.

(September)My Name- My full name is Charles William Merselis, but I don't like being called that. I think my name sounds to fancy and I like being called Charley more. I have no clue why I spell my name with an E-Y instead of I-E but I do. If I could change my name I would just change it from Charles to Charley.

This second assignment was given in October. I was told to compare myself to anything and write about how that thing and I are related. I chose a pistachio. I don’t know exactly what was going through my head when I chose it. I think that what I wrote here is still accurate, although in some aspects I had “broken my shell” here at Darrow. I played lacrosse at my last school for multiple years and was considerably louder on the field than in classroom. This is because I feel more of a connection to lacrosse than school work because it is more familiar

(10-26-17)Pistachio- Pistachios have an outer shell, like me. The shell doesn’t protect me like it does to a pistachio, but it does act like a barrier sometimes. This barrier makes me talk less and participate less in certain activities. Just like a pistachio I'll escape my shell one day.

This was a poem I was told to make about where I am from. It did not have to be literal in all aspects. I chose to write about places I was familiar with when I was younger and also some of my favorite places. I still enjoy going to everywhere here but Pine Cobble. My thoughts on Pine Cobble changed throughout the year seeing what they had done to the school and how they changed it.

(3-9-18)Where I'm from Poem-

I am from Slone

From the river and the waterfall

I am from Winnipesaukee

From 56 bear

And sunset rock in the woods

I am from Pine Cobble

From 3 to 14,

From moving on

I am from Jupiter

From the Tree houses and the parks

I am from Stowe

From Jiminy

I am from the times where I had to move on

From the times where I had to start fresh

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K9y8BqcsD24yAKpZQs_alAXr524f5UjrpVp7cJwkA-0/edit (The website is being weird for me and and I can't bring my answers from this doc to the actual padlet)

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I chose to look at some of the first assignments this year that involved describing myself, and see if I still had the same feelings on what I wrote.

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This project was to select a family recipe, and find out where it is from. I chose grasshopper pie and researched about its origin and its original ingredients. As well as researching it we were asked to create a slideshow and a flip book showing recipes and all of the basic information.

I learned about my foods origin and different recipes. For example grasshopper pie was first in the early 1900s by Philippines who used real grasshoppers in pies because grasshoppers were considered a fancy food. The modern day version of the pie was invented in the 1960s, is still similar to todays version. A skill I grew in was presenting. In my last presentation I was unprepared and rushed my slides, but in this project I moved slower and had been prepared. It still was not anything amazing, just an improvement from last time, and next time I'll improve more.

This project demonstrates growth because I got better at presenting. It also demonstrates success because I got a grade I am happy with, and I improved on my presenting skills. I improved on cooperation because me and Jonah worked well and the slideshow looked good.

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This artifact shows growth and success because I grew more in different skills, and it shows success because I got a good grade. I am proud of my work and think I did very well. If I could change anything it would be small details about stuff in the paper to have a 100 without the likes boost. To set myself up for success in the future I could plan ahead more and set what I want to have done each day.

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I think that I did well on this assignment. I did get an automatic 100 for most likes, but even without that I got a good grade. I think that I did grow more during this assignment with learning what risk is worth taking and work management. I also grew in critical thinking because I had to realize that if my ad did not work I would need to have a good project backing it.

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I learned about how M&Ms are made and what is needed to make them. How the chocolate is received and how they are made into the candy. Also how the people in charge of he M&Ms factories where not great people and would not respect the factory workers and how children would work work at the cocoa farms.

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I chose this article because it demonstrates risk. It demonstrates that because I focused a lot of my starting time on my advertisement. I did this because because whoever got the most likes on their ad got an instant 100. It was probably not the smartest move, so I planned ahead to make sure I had enough time on the actual project. I learned abetter sense of which risks are worth taking, and also not to put everything on plan A

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I chose to write about my story time project. In this project I was asked to chose anything and find out its deeper secrets about what goes into making it. For it I chose M&Ms. I found out that M&Ms have secrets like using a dangerous ingredient for their red die and that child labor is used to harvest cocoa for the chocolate. A skill I learned was perseverance. I chose this article because I got a 100, and also it demonstrates perseverance, because I learned better work ethic and project management.

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This paper shows growth because throughout my drafts I added more detail and thought in the papers. It shows also shows success because I could see myself improving throughout the duration of the assignment. It helped me be more thorough with my work. Before I would usually make only a 1st draft and a final, but in this project I did around that 5 drafts, it may have been a bit much, but I did see how double and triple checking improved my work. I definitely think I could improve more in my draft, but I am proud of my work and think I did a good job. I think this project would have been more meaningful to me if I had started out better. In the beginning of the project I went pretty fast in my draft and I think that If I had taken my time more on it the whole of the project could have been better.

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I feel Like I grew during this project because I took more of a leadership role. I am very proud of the work I did but I did not get a 100 so it could have been better. I also could improve on my communication. Even though I did communicate during this project I could have done it more.

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The 21st century skill that I got better at was communication. As this was a class project I felt like it would be very important talk to my classmates and make sure everyone is on task. With talking to the class I think the project was better completed in the end.

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RGWcAXe22KhCCC0srw2ovhG7hkD1yT07nuMHGcndlOs/edit#slide=id.p

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I learned to remember better. I did not do some meditation  thing to bring back memories but I did pick out a few key details to remember a bigger picture about my first impressions of Darrow.

I also learned creative thinking. I learned creative thinking because throughout my many drafts I improved my writing details. Without creative thinking my paper would have been very dull and boring.

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In this project I learned to be a better writer. I feel like my final draft is not only more, but is also interesting and not to bland like my first draft. I also I learned about the school more because I talked about getting lost and it made me not do the same mistakes over and over again.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bdE5euY_V5gYI1cY82DaAkPKe2-RyA-W3gWrpHkxMgg/edit

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I chose my first impressions of Darrow paper. The paper was about my first impressions of Darrow and some things that I did in my first couple of days at this school. I also included some things I liked and disliked during my first visit. I chose it because I made a lot of drafts for it. Having many drafts of the same paper helped me see mistakes I made and were I could improve on my writing skills.

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In this project everyone had their own slide or two. I had two which were an empire and a trade route. The trade route I chose was the Silk Route/Road. It connected China and East Asia to the Eastern Mediterranean area and The Roman Empire. The Silk Road was the biggest and most popular trade route and a large assortment of goods were sold and bought. Mainly silk was traded from China to The Roman Empire for gold, silver and wool. For the empire I chose the Korean Empire. The Korean Empire was formerly known as the Jose Dynasty for 500 years until being changed to the Korean Empire. It was started in 1897 and ended in 1910 because of Japans annexation of Korea. There were two empires during the Korean Empire named Emperor Gwangmu and Emperor Young Hui.

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I chose this video because it has many examples of people with growth mindsets and what they achieved. It also had studies and experiments of giving kids comments in a growth mindset way vs a fixed mindset way and how the kids with the growth mindset comments were above the kids with he fixed mindset comments in multiple aspects. Some of the ways the growth mindset kids were above the fixed mindset kids were in there grades, there willingness to learn, and how much they wanted to challenge themselves. It relates to my growth mindset in my project because in the beginning I had little faith that we would complete the project, but we did. If I had not had a growth mindset about the project I would have put little effort in and my part of the slide show would be horrible, but it wasn't because I did put effort in.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN34FNbOKXc

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In this project as a class we were told to investigate certain topics of a randomly chosen classmates human migratory path. It was supposed to be a mystery but we figured out it was Joseph. Each member of the class had one or two topics to further research about Josephs ancestors. I was one of the people with two topics and they were a trade route and an empire. In the begging of the project Iwas worried that it might not turn out well because we were pretty off track and un organized but throughout working on the project my thought of it not turning out well had changed. I saw a lot of progress on the project and I think that it turned out pretty well.