Out of my Mind by Kileigh Ackerman

#1 - Questioning

2095336 — 2019-08-07 20:59:28 UTC

The part that made me confused was why she would have to return to school and why they didn't go to the competition.  They could have made it but they didn't go, which doesn't make sense because Melody really wanted to be there.  I wasn't really asking myself any questions during this book, except for that one part of the book, 93%.  
93%

#2 - Connecting

2095336 — 2019-08-07 21:01:33 UTC

I connect with her on this part because  I am always thinking the same things.  Why didn't they call me?  Why didn't they tell me about breakfast?  Why can't I be like everybody else?  The ways I am connecting to my reading is Melody and her day to day thoughts that are going through her head, I think the same things when I am in sort of the situations that she is going through.
86%

#3 - Inferring

2095336 — 2019-08-07 21:02:51 UTC

When Melody says, "The next two weeks pass in a whirlwind," she's getting even more nervous for the competition and she is also very excited, but overall very nervous.  I can relate to this to an extreme because every week for me in school is a whirlwind, competition or not!  This especially applied to me when I was in 4th grade and I was in the spelling bee!  I had to practice so much and I ended up winning my schools spelling bee and I went on to compete at the regional spelling bee, I didn't make it any farther unfortunately, but I made it farther that i thought i would have.  But being in a competition is very very hard and you have to practice so much.  So i can really get the whirlwind part.
64%

#4 - Visualizing

2095336 — 2019-08-14 02:01:28 UTC

I could image little Claire holding her stomach  and her mouth at the dinner table, and her throwing up all over her dads new shoes.  The passage describes it in such a good way it is like I was at the dinner table.  Sharon Draper so welly explains it in a way as if you were there and you were Melody, sitting in her wheelchair, watching little Claire run and throw up all over her dads shoes.
78%

#5 - Summarizing

2095336 — 2019-08-14 02:08:18 UTC

Out of my mind is mainly about a girl with cerebral pasley and being in her world.  She is also very smart for what she has, which that put her into a big competition.  Bad things happen like they usually do and things don't go as planned.  But as always, life comes around makes it up.  Its very much about being different, but in a good way.  Melody's different makes her an unique person, and that's what makes her, her.
No specific percent, its throughout the whole book.

#6 - Character Changes

2095336 — 2019-08-14 02:14:07 UTC

Melody goes from a shy little girl to a smart and sort of independent girl.   Melody was this small little girl who thought her disability was a bad thing and wasn't very happy she had it.  She didn't like to eat around other people, she really didn't like to be around other people who weren't comfortable with her.  But by the end, she was an almost independent girl.  She became more of herself around other people.  She eats around them, and as I said, more herself around people.  She really changed for the better I would say.
2% and the end of the book

#7 - Theme

2095336 — 2019-08-14 02:18:45 UTC

The theme is that everyone deserves to be loved.  No matter what you look like, no matter what you are.
The whole book.

#8 - Plot

2095336 — 2019-08-14 02:22:08 UTC

Exposition:  Melody being a bright 11 year old girl with cerebral pasley and she mainly relies on Mrs V and her parents to take care of her. Beginning of book.
Conflict: She then gets to go into the normal classroom at her school filled with normal kids, they don't treat her with the respect she deserves.  34%
Rising Action:  She then takes the test to be on the schools quiz team and she gets every single question right and she makes the first spot on the quiz team.  63%
Climax:  The quiz teams flight left early without letting Melody know they were leaving, so Melody didn't get to compete in the competition and the quiz team lost because she wasn't there. 84%
Falling Action:  Melody's little sister Penny, gets hit by her moms car.  Melody was trying to warn her but her mom couldn't understand.  91%
Resolution:  Penny didn't suffer with major injures, just some small ones.  Melody becomes brave and smashes the quiz teams trophy in the ground in a million pieces.  And it ends with Melody being the hero we all needed.  The end of the book.

#9 - Craft/Style

2095336 — 2019-08-14 02:26:42 UTC

Sharon's style is in the first person, mostly showing the problems Melody was going through.  Some good things, but mostly the challenges she has to face on a daily basis.  
The whole entire book.

#10 - Opinion

2095336 — 2019-08-14 02:28:28 UTC

The book is just about difference.  Its showing struggles people with cerebral pasley face everyday.  
The whole book.