Hello!

Yesterday in Language Arts the students took the District Writing Prompt.  I am doing my best to have these graded before we go on spring break.  I am already done with first hour and their grades have been updated.  I have done part of third and fifth hour.  I hope to finish most of those tonight.  Second hour took the test today because they were in an assembly yesterday.  Please keep in mind that the end of the fifth marking is the Friday we return from break.  It is vital that the students keep up on their homework because the end of the marking period will be here before we know it.

I returned vocabulary tests to students and am offering test retakes tomorrow before (7:30) and after (3:00) school.  If students need an additional study tool, all of the words have been posted to vocabtest.com.  The username is trayloa.  The test name for Divergent students is Divergent Chapters 1-5 and the password for Giver students is The Giver Chapters 1-3.  All letters that I have capitalized need to be capitalized when you type it in.

In Language Arts today I read an excerpt from the novel to the Divergent groups about fear.  We discussed how fear plays an important role in the novel.  We also discussed how different factions respond to fear.  The students were given a scenario and they had to think about how the faction they are in would respond to the situation.  Once they came up with a response, they needed to report out to their classmates.

The Giver students continued to work on their ten word summaries.  Tomorrow we will be editing summaries from the other classes to determine what is meaningful in a summary and what is not.

I hope everyone has a great evening!