‘Star Wars: The Cestus Deception, A Clone Wars Novel’ – Chapter 23 (Part 7)

Thursday.   The week is almost over and I am on my way to having a little time back to myself and to focus on this blog and my podcast.  I got up this morning and felt a little better rested than yesterday, but I will be happy when we finally get to the weekend.  For some reason this weekend seems like it’s forever and a day away!  I got up this morning and got the kids ready for the school day while I got ready for the work day.  The kids seemed to be excited about the prospect that tomorrow would be a new day and it would be Friday and they were looking forward to the weekend as well as a new episode of “The Clone Wars” which they were all asking me about.

The babysitter showed up on time, and I was off to work and the kids were on their way to school.  It was an interesting day, to say the least.  I went over the history of Jazz and then had the kids watch the second segment in the Ken Burns video series with my eighth grade students.  My sixth grade students went over the Middle Ages with me and the impact of music on the world during that timeframe.  Finally, we went over the beginning of the Baroque Period with my seventh grade students and they were fairly well behaved after Tuesday’s chaos class.  The best part is that they started to correct themselves.  We also had a great PLG today talking about motivation and students.  We talked about past events for us that motivated us to do something good or bad.  We all discovered that students will react negatively to teachers who have a negative attitude toward their students and students will excel in classrooms where the teacher tries to be positive with the students.  We also discovered that when the expectations are high, is when students achieve the most.

I got done with work and came home to get to spend some time with the kids.  Austin told me his trumpet lesson did better and actually admitted that I may have been right all along.  Ruth thanked me for the help with her Science homework because I was right in my answers.  Tara told me about the “Daddy/Daughter” dance and the cool thing is that it is about hollywood and you’re encouraged to dress like your favorite actor.  Well, Tara was excited because this could mean that we can dress as our Star Wars characters at the event.  I know, just another reason to put the costume on, right?!

I went downstairs and played some “Call of Duty4″, when one of my students invited me to play them in a one on one game online.  Well, I joined, but had warned them that I am pretty viscious when it comes to the game.  I pretty much beat the student two to one, for every one kill he had on me, I had two on him (sometimes more).  It was fun, but I know that tomorrow I’ll get some ribbing for it in class.  We all ate dinner together and I came downstairs and graded some papers and then did Two-Week Reports to hand out tomorrow.  I finished with those just in time to watch “Survivor”, “C.S.I” and then “Hell’s Kitchen” on tape and then Heather and I went to bed.

Okay, so let’s talk about Part 7 of Chapter 23 of “Star Wars:  The Cestus Deception, A Clone Wars Novel” by Steven Barnes…..

Chapter 23 (Part 7):  A medical droid made an assessment and then told Trillot what had happened.  Ventress looked at him and told him that he was not dead.  Trillot thanked Ventress for not killing him and Fizzik wondered if Remlot’s days of being a bully were now over.  Fizzik also noted that every person in the room now respected Ventress that much more.  It’s almost as if she scripted it that way.  Trillot told her there was another development and it had to do with the Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi.  Ventress looked like she was in a fury and told Trillot that Kenobi must die.  Trillot begged her to not get side-tracked as they may not have more time.  She cut-off the X’Ting and said that she did not aske his advice and she believes that his here for the same business as she is and figures that she needs to kill him first.  Trillot said he brought her here to meet with the Families, but she said she’s sure that Obi-Wan will subvert them and may already have a spy among them.  Trillot then said that the Five Families know a representative is on the way, but they don’t know who.  Ventress said this was perfect.  First, she would kill Kenobi and then meet with the Five Families.  Trillot responded positively, but viewed this woman as an indecisive viper.  Fizzik began to wonder if he would have to work for Ventress one day.