Hopkins Reads Q2
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- EXPOSITION
- Mrs. V, Melody's caretaker
- Melody's mother
- Melody
- CONFLICT
- I wish adults would see my potential.
- RISING ACTION
- Molly and Claire
- Rose
- Out of My Mind, by Sharon M. Draper revolves around an eleven-year-old girl named Melody Brooks who was born with cerebral palsy, a disablity which makes her unable to walk, talk, or pretty much do anything. Melody actually has an incredibly intelligent mind inside of her disabled body, but is unable to tell anyone that.
- CLIMAX
- The flight has been canceled due to bad weather.
- Melody feels like her mind and her body are separated. While her disabled body causes her to act like an immature, drooling, kicking child, her mind is actually mature for her age, and she happens to remember everything that ever happened in her life. Melody wants to tell her teachers at school the curriculum they were teaching her was too easy and repetitive, but couldn't.
- FALLING ACTION
- Using her Medi-Talker, a computer system that allowed Melody to display words and sentences, Melody tried out for her school's quiz team, and managed to get a perfect score. In the meantime, she befriended a nice girl named Rose, she also encountered Molly and Claire, who were skeptical and unsupportive of her arrival. Despite securing a spot on the team, Melody didn't feel a sense of belonging.
- RESOLUTION
- When Melody's family planned to fly Melody to the quiz team's national finals in Washington D.C, they were informed the flight was canceled due to bad weather, and that the rest of the team had already arrived. This greatly disprited Melody, as her team, including Rose, had left her behind without informing her.
- After being notified that her team scored ninth place in the national finals, Melody decided she wanted to go to school to rise above the situation. While her mom was backing up the car, they felt a lump that happened to be Melody's little sister, Penny. Penny was eventually okay, only facing minor injuries.
- When Melody returned to her classroom, her classmates apologized for the lack of consideration towards her, giving her the cheap, plastic trophy. Instead of throwing a fit, Melody starts laughing, making the trophy fall on the floor. At the end, Melody realizes that she had more in common with her fifth grade classmates than she thought, each person having their own problems to face.
- While Penny does get injured, she is fine. When Melody goes to school, the other students on the quiz team give Melody the plastic 9th-place trophy. Melody breaks it and leaves the inclusion classroom.
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