Welcome to the week beyond testing :) The class has started a Civics unit on crime - they will be working through this with Jerry Harms and a Juvenile Justice video on the days I am gone for track.

We are also wrapping up our, "This I Believe" essays. One student asked me if I would take a look at his yesterday - he wasn't sure he was doing it "right" - it brought me to tears, so I think he did something correctly! I am wholeheartedly looking forward to hearing more of these personal essays on Thursday (that's when they are due!).

Today, the few students who are left at the school with the track team gone to Bi-State, walked with me down to daily grind where we snack, sip and learn a bit more about Midsummer Night's Dream --- nice change of pace after days of testing!

Good news for most of you - major assignments are largely behind us now - Midsummer Night's Dream will be almost exclusively done in class - so homework from here on out will be at a minimum - with the exception of a small Civics quiz covering ch. 16. Hope this works as well for you as it does for the kids and I!