https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo By:Laurie Halse Anderson en-us 2019-06-15 22:29:33 UTC 2025-09-29 21:15:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/388859774/ae4676c1aab8c5ebd29e295ffe6fbd26/dbf59e_72fef489fd3c43199ce2bd606f6a66bf_mv2.png 2103273 https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/367731959      One of the things things I am wondering is that the is person she refers to as ¨it¨  someone she previously knew.  Or did they meet for the fist time where at the place where she got sexually assaulted?(Page 46). 
     What I read does make sense, this is because the book is very clear and not confusing with the story line/plot. This makes it easier to follow along, read, and easier to enjoy.  
    Some questions I have about the book are, Who sexually assaulted Melinda?and Will Melinda try to get help and speak out (135)?]]> 2019-06-15 22:30:22 UTC https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/367731959 2103273 https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/367732495       On page 74 I have a text-to-self,connection. The connection is that one time over winter break I had to go to my moms work. This was very very boring so I also for a second wished school could start again. This is  very similar to what Melinda had to do, and the thought she had.
     On page 135 I have a text to world connection. The connection is that many people get sexually assaulted in the world. This is exactly what happened to Melinda on this page. This leaves everyone feeling helpless and lost.]]> 2019-06-15 22:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/367732495 2103273 https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/367732875   There are many conclusions I can draw based of of refereeing. One of these examples is on page number 71. On this page it says it wishes she could somehow get a kid. This is because she believes that Christmas is more fun with a kid. With this we can infer that her Christmas was not the best. On page number 70 it says that she thinks her parents would have been divorced it it was not for her being born. This can help us infer that her parents do/did not have a good relationship. ]]> 2019-06-15 22:54:16 UTC https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/367732875 2103273 https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/367734215

  All the passages on page 81 create a picture in my mind. This is because it takes me back to movies where it has scenes of highs schoolers dissecting frogs and it also describes similar smells and description. Also in almost all of these movie someone passes out and that also happens at the very end of the last page to Melinda. The only difference is that the dissection was no the only reason she passed pout.

]]> 2019-06-15 23:28:53 UTC https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/367734215 2103273 https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/367735109  The book Speak is about a freshman  who starts out as a normal student. Soon her grades begin to drop and she begins to scare her family. This is all because she went to  party with 3 of her friends. That  was the night that she was raped by a senior Andy evens. This spirals her into a depression she fights to get out of. At the end of the book  she once again gets stuck with Andy but this time she speaks up. (whole book)]]> 2019-06-15 23:55:47 UTC https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/367735109 2103273 https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/370347273 The main character in the book ¨Speak¨ is a freshman named Melinda. Melinda goes to a part and gets raped, sadly she is too scared and confused to speak up (Page 135). This changes at the end of the book when Melinda finally gets the strength to speak up. (Page 197)]]> 2019-07-06 01:11:20 UTC https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/370347273 2103273 https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/370347485  I think the authors writing style is detailed and engaging. Throughout the book the author really described Melinda's every emotion. For example on page 135 I could feel her fear and her confusion. This really helped me throughout the book to get engaged and interested. ]]> 2019-07-06 01:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/370347485 2103273 https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/370347486 The theme of the book speak is fining someones or your own voice. In the book speak Melinda is raped. This makes her go into a depression that she fights to get out of. While she does try she finds it hard to speak out about the awful experience she went through. Lucky at the end of the book she manged to speak up and she finds her voice. (whole book)]]> 2019-07-06 01:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/370347486 2103273 https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/370347954 The plot of speak is a girl named Melinda starts of as a good student but that all ends when she goes to a party. She gets drunk and is sexually assaulted.She begins to struggle with school and is only passing art. One of her ex best friends starts to date Andy the guy who sexually assaulted her. She tells Rachelle that Andy did this to her but she does not believe Melinda. Andy tries to attack Melinda again but he does not get away with it. The school learns what happened to Melinda and begins to be on her side. She ends the book by speaking up about what happened and acing her final art project.This is a progressive plot because it goes through the story in chronological order and ends with the book tying the looses ends together. (whole book)]]> 2019-07-06 01:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/370347954 2103273 https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/370348844 In my opinion the book speak was a great book. It kept the reader engaged and it was very good at not making things to complicated. I really liked the fact that it was not too fictional and that it did have a lot of real world examples in there. I fell like with these real world connections it was easier to read and to understand for me. (whole book)]]> 2019-07-06 01:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/2103273/kn6xltko9glo/wish/370348844