From all the reading and discussion we've done in this class it seems that middle school is different from the high school experience. Students, to me, are still growing in significant ways. By high school students tend to have more established personalities and cliques, but middle school students are less defined. They share characteristics of both adolescents (high schoolers) and children, which makes them their own creatures for teachers to work with. With high school students I feel more like I am preparing them for college, but middle school students I'm preparing them for high school and being a high schooler. It seems more apt to have social programs and lessons for middle schoolers because they are not fully developed yet. They are often rowdy like children, but are obsessed with adult material. I do not always find these qualities to be negative. Middle school students are less self conscious than high schoolers, and therefore more willing to engage in the "fun" activities in class. As we prepared the grammar plans many of us in the class used games as means of engagement and practice. I'm not sure we would necessarily approach the material the same with high school students because they are closer to being adults. I think the material we've studied will come in handy when approaching a middle school classroom.