Class Period: First period

Last Thing I Listened to: Beaches by Beabadoobee

Through completing the star test I learned about processing and using information to pick answers, and make valuable inferences. I think I improved my reading and comprehension skills and how to effectively use this information to answer questions and better understand the meaning of words. At times I found that I did not know the definitions of words, but by analyzing prefixes and what they meant I was able to get a broad idea of a words meaning. Doing this star test helped me better grasp where I am as a reader and what I may be able to do to help myself improve.

Reflection Week 2: Haymitch and Beetee create a plan to break the hunger games arena. They decide he has to stray from his allies, "the newcomers," to complete it. The next day, the interviews take place which help the tributes receive victors. Haymitch is instructed to use the 1 he got in his training to his advantage. He plays the part of a rascal. The next day Haymitch finally descends into the arena.

Reflection Week 3: Haymitch spends his night in the arena, which is beautiful, perfumed, and poisoned. He almost dies to unsafe water before he takes the provided antidote. He continues on his mission to break the arena.

Reflection week 4: Before I read this book I knew it was going to have a lot of death in it. At the beginning of the book when Haymitch is at the reaping, the boy he is reaped gets shot and killed and instead Haymitch is chosen. The Capitol covers it up and edits the footage. Haymitch isn’t acquainted with his district mates except Louella, but the days go on and he gets to know them better. At the chariot rides Louella gets in an accident and dies, she is later replaced by another identical district girl, courtesy of President snow. When the games begin he splits off from the others to carry on his plan of breaking the arena. He finds Louella’s replacement, Lou Lou, but she inhales poison and die. When he finally meets Ampert, one of his Allies who is helping him with his plan, he temporarily shuts down the arena, but it does not work to his avail. Ampert is killed off by the capitol. He eventually meets up with Maysilee who is also killed off as a punishment for killing a gamemaker. There are only two tributes left after this. Silka kills the other tribute, Haymitch kills off silka. He is the victor of the 50th hunger games. When he returned home he finds president snow has left. He has been set up to lose everything. Despite this, he carries on through his victors tour where he sees Plutarch. Plutarch convinces Haymitch to help him start a revolution.

Week 2: Pip starts to interview people and as she does, she finds persons of interest who could be potentially greatly connected to the crime. She finds that one of her best friend's family who shes known for a long time and known may be more connected to the case than she'd like. The investigation becomes intense when she finds a note telling her to "STOP DIGGING, PIPPA." Although, Pip is determined and she continues to look.

Week 3: Pip continues her search, now with the help of Ravi Singh, brother of Andi Bell's boyfriend and alleged murderer Sal Singh. She interviews, Andi's younger sister's best friend and she learns a lot in that interview. For example, Jason Bell's tense relationship with his daughters, his passive aggressive comments disguised as humor, and more importantly, "calamity" parties which Andi had attended and spent time with Max Hastings at. She interviews him next and finds Andi was in cahoots with a drug dealer. She decides to attend this party in search of this drug dealer. After finding out about him and confirming his connection with Andi through a license plate, she brings Ravi with her and interrogates him at his house.

Week 4: Pip breaks into Andi's house and finds a planner in which Andi wrote. She finds that she used to write in cold, so she investigated the possible meanings for the codes, one of them, named IV is visited often. Pip discovers that IV is referring to an inn where Andi stayed, and where Andi took a nude picture which Max Hastings is in possession of now, confirming Andi made weekly visits there. Later, she uses the help of Cara, her best friend, to break into her sister, Naomi's Social media to find out more about Max Hastings, where she finds a photo of Sal's friend group the night Andi was killed. The camera is positioned far from the picture which poses the question, and there is nobody else home. This poses a question, "Who took the picture?"

Week 5: She finds out that Sal had been there until at least 12:09 which means he lied and his friends lied about him leaving at 10:30. Now she just has to figure out whether it's possible for Sal to have committed murder in 45 minutes and her test fails, almost proving Sal guilty. Although there isn't enough evidence yet. So she questions Max Hastings once again who admits that they lied behind Sal's back to hide their own secret, they had been involved in a hit and run and he had been drunk driving. Pip promises to not go to the police for the sake of Naomi, but now she has to find another way to prove Sal innocent.

Week 6: Pip is threatened with a note again which warns her one last time to stop the search before she gets into trouble. Later, she takes her dog for a walk, and when she calls for him back, she finds that he is gone. Over the course of the next few days Pip searches for her dog until she gets a mysterious message from an unknown number. It tells her to destroy her project in order to get her dog back. She does what it told her so, but her dog does not get returned. Instead, he is later found, drowned in a river. She tells Ravi that she is no longer going to do the project and Ravi gets mad for a while but he eventually comes back because he suspected it. They continue on with the project. Then Pip finds that Mr. Ward was the one printing all those notes.

Week 7: Pip decides to track Mr. Ward by lying about a hurt ankle and asking for a ride home. She turns on "find my friends" on Ravi's phone. She finds out where he's been going for his alleged tutoring, which is at his old house. Pip calls the cops and follows him in his house, she finds out what had really happened the night that Andie went missing. She found out that Mr. Ward had been having relations with teen-aged Andie. That he had been the one behind a lot of the notes, but not all of them. Pip then goes to Becca Bell's house and finds out she had been Andie's real murderer.