Out of My Mind - Conflict
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Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
Lesson Plans by Becky Harvey
Melody is a brilliant girl with an almost photographic memory. She has amazing thoughts and ideas, but she’s never shared them with anyone. In fact, she’s never spoken a word. Melody lives with cerebral palsy, and people don’t realize that she is gifted, because she can’t control her body. Learn more about Melody, and engage students with premade activities and storyboards with Storyboard That.
Storyboard Description
Out of My Mind Literary Conflict
Storyboard Text
- MAN vs. MAN
- Mom, I'm tired of always wearing sweats. Please dress me in something trendy.
- MAN vs. SELF
- Dumb body! Why can't I just be like everybody else?
- MAN vs. TECHNOLOGY
- Ugh! I need to fill you up with all my words so I can say everything I want to!
- Melody gets upset with her mother for dressing her for convenience and not fashionably.
- Melody is angry with her own body. She doesn't understand why she has to be the way she is.
- Melody struggles to enter all the information she wants her communication board to contain, so she can say all of the million things she's never been able to say.
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