1. THINK BACK….TO GRADE 8 GRADUATION 1.How were you feeling? 2.What were you thinking about high school? 3.What did going to high school mean to you/ 4.What about your good friends? Did you say you would stick together? 5.Think about some the “drama” you experienced in Middle School. What does that drama seem like now? 6.What were your hopes for High School? 7.What were your concerns/fears about high school? 8.How would you describe yourself as you got ready to leave Grade 8 and enter Grade 9?

2. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO BACK AND TELL YOURSELF THEN? If you could go back and talk to yourself before you left Grade 8 and went into Grade 9, what would you tell yourself? To worry less? To worry more? Get to know the school better? Get to know the teachers better? Make different friends? More friends? Don’t get suspended? Stay out of ISSC? Write a short letter to yourself in Grade 8 and give yourself some advice based on your experience in high school so far. - About 1 page - Be specific and write about what you would change and why - Write the letter in the form of an advice letter.

3. HELLO ME… CONGRATULATIONS! You will now write a letter to yourself on your graduation day. You will open and read this letter as you sit in your cap and gown preparing to take your next step in life. Some things to think about including: 1.Where you are right now as you write. 2.Who is around you? 3.How you are feeling? 4.Your hopes for the remainder of Grade 10. 5.Your hopes for Grade 11 and 12. 6.Activities, clubs, teams, groups you hope to be a part of. 7.Trips you hope you get to go on. 8.Your plan for after graduation: work, college, trades, university, travel etc.

4. HELLO ME… CONGRATULATIONS 1.Now that you have selected several things to write to yourself about you can now write a letter including the information you selected. 2.Think of three promises you can make to yourself about how the next 2.5 years will go for you. Write them into your letter for yourself. 3.Think of three questions you want to ask yourself at your high school graduation. Maybe you will be able to answer them, maybe not.