![]() What effect, if any, do such things have on a school community?ĥ. Research current laws for inclusion of children with disabilities into classrooms. Investigate the possible causes of cerebral palsy, and what preventative measures, if any, can be taken by the mother.Ĥ. How does it affect the child socially, academically, and personally?ģ. Investigate the problems of children with cerebral palsy, especially those that are of school age. Write about your feelings and frustrations.Ģ. Write a paper that tells what it would be like to be Melody for one day. How would this story have been different if it had been written from a third-person point of view from the point of view of her parents, for example, or simply from the viewpoint of an outside observer?Ģ0. Why is the first page repeated at the end of the book? How has Melody changed, both personally and socially, from the beginning of the book to the end?ġ9. What is satisfying about how she handles the situation? What else might Melody have done?ġ8. Discuss the scene in which Melody confronts the kids on the quiz team. Describe Melody’s extreme range of emotions as she tries to tell her mother that Penny is behind the car. How would you have coped with the same situation?ġ6. Describe Melody’s feelings before the trip to the airport, while she is there, and after she gets home. What is ironic about the events at the restaurant after the competition? How does this scene foreshadow the events that led up to the airport fiasco?ġ5. What does Melody learn about friendship and the relationships of children working together as she practices and competes with the quiz team? What does she learn about herself?ġ4. Why does Melody decide to enter the quiz team competition? What obstacles must she face and overcome just to get on the team?ġ3. How does Melody’s computer change her life, her outlook on life, and her potential? Why does she name it Elvira?ġ2. What does Melody learn about friendship during the trip to the aquarium? Make a comparison between Ollie’s life, the life of the fish in the aquarium, and Melody’s life.ġ1. Describe Melody’s deep, unrealized need for a friend.ġ0. How does the inclusion program change Melody’s school experiences? Describe both positive and negative results of the program. Analyze Melody’s complicated feelings about her little sister.ĩ. Describe how the introduction of Penny as a character changes the family dynamics. What is significant about the story of Ollie the fish? How does Ollie’s life mirror Melody’s? Describe Melody’s feelings when she is unable to tell her mother what really happened.Ĩ. What role does she play in Melody’s development? Why is she a necessary addition to Melody’s life?ħ. What does this say about her school system, or about attitudes at her school about teaching children with special needs?Ħ. Discuss Melody’s teachers since she began going to school. How does Melody feel about school? How does she fit in with her classmates and what makes her different from the rest of the children in H-5? What would be Melody’s ideal school situation?ĥ. How do they learn to communicate with Melody and help her to overcome everyday problems? Why are those efforts sometimes a complete failure?Ĥ. In a world that does not work for her, what seems to cause the biggest frustrations for Melody?ģ. How does this help capture the reader’s attention? What predictions can the reader make about the narrator of the story? What inferences can be made about the thought processes of the narrator’s mind?Ģ. The novel opens with a powerful discussion of the power of words and language. Get ready to meet a girl whose voice you'll never, ever forget.1. Draper comes a story full of heartache and hope. At last Melody has a voice, but not everyone around her is ready to hear it.įrom two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner Sharon M. She can't write.īeing stuck inside her head is making Melody go out of her mind - that is, until she discovers something that will allow her to speak for the first time ever. If only she could speak up, if only she could tell people what she thinks and knows.but she can't, because Melody can't talk. Most people - her teachers and doctors included - don't think she's capable of learning, and until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again and again. ![]() She's the smartest kid in her whole school, but no one knows it. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory.
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