As their homeroom teacher for two years - 6th and 8th grade - Ms. Brown assembled a small graduation gift for each 8th grader to commemorate all that their inside jokes and her classroom decor and English class rules had to offer the graduates in terms of life lessons and advice. Each item in the gift bags not only related to Ms. Brown's classroom setup or the 8th grade homeroom family they became, but to advice that Ms. Brown wished to share with the 8th grade as they move on to high school. A list of the items was included in the bag, along with a description of each's symbolic meaning.