https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i Out of my mind en-us 2016-08-18 17:00:27 UTC 2025-10-25 04:17:10 UTC hello@padlet.com 2038457 https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/118793742  How is Melody going to react  after her teammates completely let her down  by leaving her at the airport?
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What was melody's first thoughts of how her first words to her parents are going to be like? (136-138)

Will melody succeed at competing with the Wiz kids Quiz Team and or will she be discouraged to go on and give up? (182- 255) ]]> 2016-08-18 17:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/118793742 https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119027856 Text to world: 
Out of my Mind is related to our world because there are many disabled kids that don't get treated correctly. Disabled people are treated like they are nothing or they are just a mistake, just like how Melody feels threw out the book. Melody suffered with Cerebral palsy and has never had the chance to feel like she fit in with other kids. She got treated with no respect and got judged on how she looked. Kids get judged like this all the time and it is not respectful and it is rude to kids that suffer with a disability. 
Text to Text:
The book out of mind is very unique compared to other books that I have read. There is usually not a disabled person that shows courage, effort, confidence and more. Melody is different because of how she has a disability, and other books don't usually have a character like her.]]> 2016-08-20 22:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119027856 2038458 https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119062670 My opinion on this book is that it could be for many different writers. For me there were different feeling for every chapter. My most common feeling was compassion. This happened because Melody was going threw some ruff times throughout the book, such as how her sister got hit bye a car and how the Wiz Quiz Team left her at home. At some places of the book It was heart warming because Melody was happy because she got to speak her first words to her family with a machine. Some parts made me laugh like the part when Melody's mom stormed in at made a big seen in for what the disabled kids teacher was teaching them. Not only does this book make me have feelings it makes me understand a lesson, that not to judge people based on there inside but to get to know there inside/feelings.]]> 2016-08-21 21:56:23 UTC https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119062670 2038458 https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119063598 Exposition: 
Melody an 11 year old girls suffers from Cerebral Palsy. She has a Father,  Mother, and a younger sister in her family. She has a nanny named Mrs. V who takes care of Melody and her younger sister Penny, throughout the day, when she is not in school. She has many challenges both at home and at school such as not being able to talk on her own, use the restroom by herself, or eat by herself. At school her classroom is H5, which is where disabled children like her learn basic lessons.

Rising Action: 
Melody feels the classroom H5 is too childish for her because they teach and treat her like a preschooler. Once in a while she gets to visit the regular classrooms and watches how those children learn. The teacher, Mr. Dimming, notices that she is "special" and asks Melody if she would like to participate in his class. Melody figures out a machine that is called a media talker which allows her to speak through a machine.  After she let her family know this was available, her family ordered it and the machine changed her life for the better.

Conflict:
Melody knew she was smart enough to try out for the Wiz Kid's Quiz team, which included the smartest kids who compete in 4th and 5th grade contests. She had to prove to everyone that she was intelligent enough to be with those kids, which she did. She got on the team in spite of her friends shock. She trained for the first competition, they won and made it to finals in Washington, DC. 

Climax:
After the news that the Wiz Kid's Quiz team made it to the finals in Washington, DC. Melody is practicing and packing for the trip on a non-stop basis. Showing up at the airport with her family, checking into their scheduled flight, she and her family get the terrible news that the entire team had changed their flight to an earlier one due to a bad snowstorm that was coming in. Unfortunately the team forgot to tell Melody's family about the change, and she did not make it to Washington for the final competition.  This devastated her. After the missed competition, she spent the entire weekend feeling lonely and depressed at the fact that she wasn't at the competition with the team.

Falling Action:
On Monday morning she decides to go to school to confront the team. Running late due to her parent's, they rushed out to the car in a major rain storm. Tragically, Penny ran out the front door, with no one knowing but Melody. Since she couldn't speak out loud, because her speaking board was not plugged in, she had no way of alarming anyone. Melody reacted by kicking her feet and screaming/moaning to attempt to have her Mother stop the car.  Mrs. V alarmed the Mother, but it was too late! Penny had been hit by the car! She was in the hospital for two weeks undergoing several surgeries. Melody took an emotional downfall in her progress at this tragic turn of events.

 Resolution:
When Penny's surgeries showed success, Melody decided to return to school. The day when Melody faced the Wiz Kids team, they thought it would be nice to give her the trophy, due their guilt of what they had done to her. When they gave it to her, she started laughing and said she did not want the trophy. While laughing she lost control of her body, her arm knocked the trophy off of a chair and it  shattered into pieces. The team laughed along with her. Melody realized for her whole life, she would have words in her head, but would never be able to speak them.]]> 2016-08-21 22:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119063598 2038458 https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119067034 Chapter 20 had me visualize what Melody was going threw. I had imagined what it would be like to be let down by a group of friends/people. I also could imagine how hard it was to get someones attention that Penny had ran out side of the house and how hard it was to react the way that she did. How Penny was no where but in less then a few seconds she was somewhere, under the car . This chapter made me visualize what it would be like to know that a family member is hurt and is somewhere in the hospital getting sugary. Reading those few lines I could almost smell the smell of my leather seats in my car and feeling the moment when your stomach drops when knowing something is wrong.]]> 2016-08-21 23:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119067034 2038458 https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119068845 I am drawing many conclusions to events in the book:
 The conclusion is about the event of the Wiz Kids quiz in the book. The event started to be to good too be true. It was like a natural book that always has happy parts. Melody got onto the quiz team, but it didn't sound like a fairy tale . Melody and her team won the first round and was heading for Washington. Then a let down  happened. Her team gave her a unforgettable memory about how she got left behind in Washington because of her flight intertwining with a storm. That's how the quiz team split up. Melody even knew it was to good too be true, but then her team disappointed her and the book was leading up to this conclusion in this case not every story has a happy ending.
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]]> 2016-08-21 23:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119068845 2038458 https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119070974 Out of my mind is a very mixed emotion and spectacular book. IT starts with Melody, an 11 year old girl who has the disability of cerebral palsy who has struggled all of her life Nobody thought she was capable of learning. With people under estate mating her she was way smarter then she looked. After getting her "Media talker" . She was now able to speak and have a mind oh her own.Melody was so smart she made the schools Wiz Kids Quiz Team. Her teammates were in shock when they figured out she was on the team. She worked hard for what she wanted and won her first quiz. She then faces challenges threw her family and her teammates, leaving her with a roller coaster to ride threw out the rest of the book.

(100% of the book was needed for this answer)]]> 2016-08-22 00:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119070974 2038458 https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119072249 Chapters 1-5
How melody has changed:
*has not changed 
* she is only talking about her backstory and her life now
Chapters  6-10
* started to talk about school and how that is going for her
Chapters 11-15
*Talks about room 5-H and how she is sick of being taught like a preschooler 
* wants to move to the normal classroom
Chapters 16-20
* goes to the normal classroom for a couple of days
* starts to talk about the media talker 
*starts to talk about the whiz kids team


Melody changes significantly threw out the book in many interesting ways. At first, she was a shy kind of girl. She didn't like to conversant with people and was always a shy girl. As the book continued, more things were brought up that she wanted and or wanted to do. She wanted a "medi talker", so that she could interact with people and talk to them, but at first her parents said no. This is when Melody started to change. She started acting stronger and was standing up for what she wanted. Then the whiz kids team rolled around and she frighted to get on that team. She was verbally becoming stronger and she was starting to express the mind of her own. She started talking to people and becoming more open. She also didn't care what others thought anymore because she was not going to hear it. Towards the end of the book, she was the strongest, bravest and most ruthless girl. She stood up for herself and didn't listen to anyone else. She was powerful.

(100% of the book was involved for this answer)]]> 2016-08-22 00:29:43 UTC https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119072249 2038458 https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119075858 The theme to this book is very powerful in many different ways to express the many different feelings. The author, Sharon M Draper sent a clear message to the readers to catch all the important information to understand the book.. The whole Melody situation was a great example of the theme. She was going to give up on the team and getting things, but she didn't. no matter who was in her way she would always fight threw. Melody was a strong brave girl that would fight for what she wanted and didn't take no for an answer.

( pages 253-295)]]> 2016-08-22 01:23:57 UTC https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119075858 2038458 https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119077093 The authors writing craft/style stayed the same throughout the book because of how she made the theme/style fit what was happening. Sharon M Draper writing style was unique compared to others. She switched form first person to second, but it all fit into one style from negative to positive. She wrote in Melody's perspective and then she wrote about what happened to Melody. Her writing was more intense as things were getting negative and she got more heart warming as positive things happened. Sharon's style of writing was unique and very exciting to read.]]> 2016-08-22 01:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/2038457/sk2m31p5en9i/wish/119077093