https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf en-us 2019-06-05 21:16:37 UTC 2026-03-18 02:19:57 UTC hello@padlet.com 2185795 https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365961251 Now that Melody can communicate with people, what is she going to do in the future? She can get a really good job since she is smart and people now know that. Will they be able to accept that she is different and still be willing to give her a job?]]> 2019-06-05 21:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365961251 2185795 https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365962369 I can make a text to world connection because a lot of people get bullied for what they look like and how they act. Those people can be really smart and even smarter than the bully. Yet nobody will believe them since they don't think that somebody who acts and looks different can have a brain that works really well. When Melody got her Medi-Talker her classmates and even one of her teachers didn't believe she was that smart and thought she was cheating. They also had a hard time accepting who she was even though she was the smartest one on her quiz team. ]]> 2019-06-05 21:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365962369 2185795 https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365963574 A conclusion I can draw from evidence in the text are that people will start being nicer to Melody. I think this because the day they were supposed to go to Washington DC the rest of the team had breakfast before the flight without her and left her behind. But the next day of school when they were all there she confronted them about it. All her teammates told her what happened and they seemed to feel bad. After they talked about it they all seemed to realize how nice and funny she could be.  ]]> 2019-06-05 21:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365963574 2185795 https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365965700 The passages that created the best images in my head were when she got to the TV studio and learned how to use the buttons and when the author described her classroom. When she got to the TV studio I can imagine the buttons she has to press and when she walks in I can imagine her looking around the studio. I could also see the receptionist since the author describes her with a lot of detail. When the author describes Melody's classroom she describes what every wall has on it and looks like. ]]> 2019-06-05 21:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365965700 2185795 https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365967493 Melody Brooks is 11 years old and super smart. She has a photographic memory but she can't speak or move her body. So no one knows how smart she is. Since no one thinks she is capable of learning she is put in the same level preschool class where she learns nothing all day. Until she gets a computer that helps her speak. Then people start figuring out how smart she actually is except some people don't think she could actually be that smart. She was the only one who got 100 on the quiz team qualifications so that put her on the team. Her team won the competition so that meant that they were going to Washington DC for the finals but her team left her behind. ]]> 2019-06-05 22:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365967493 2185795 https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365970952 Melody the main character changes throughout the story by becoming less careless. At the beginning she didn't care what people thought about her or how she dressed. Once she started going to real classes though that changed she didn't want the other kids to laugh at her so she would control herself and started wanting to wear new clothes. Also at the beginning she was scared of the normal kids and towards the end she was talking to them and not finding them as scary. ]]> 2019-06-05 22:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365970952 2185795 https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365971797 I think the theme of the book is not to judge someone by what they look like. Melody is judged all the time by what she looks like and people assume that she isn't smart and can't learn. In the book she explains how she thinks people would see her as and not what she really is. This book could teach us to not just judge what we see on the outside but see how they really are like in the inside. ]]> 2019-06-05 22:48:11 UTC https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365971797 2185795 https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365972634 The events in the book that made the plot develop were when Melody started going to regular classes because she got to meet other kids, when she got her Medi-Talker because that gave her the chance to try out for the quiz team, when she tried out for the quiz team and made since that showed everyone how smart she was, when they won the first quiz team competition since if the didn't they wouldn't have the chance to go to DC, When the rest of her team left her and her flight got cancelled because then she wouldn't be mad at her team, and when she confronted the ream on why they left her because if she didn't she would of stayed mad. ]]> 2019-06-05 22:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365972634 2185795 https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365974326 I liked how the author wrote from Melody's perspective. This made the story more interesting because it made you feel like you knew a bunch about her. You could also feel her emotion more if it's coming from her and not somebody else. I feel like if it was a narrator talking it would have made the book more confusing too. ]]> 2019-06-05 23:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365974326 2185795 https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365975067 I thought it was a really good book. I could see an image of what was going on in my head for every passage. It also made me realize how lucky I was to be able to talk and move my body. I bet a lot of people also felt the same thing I felt. ]]> 2019-06-05 23:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/2185795/1zkfv9i1c9gf/wish/365975067