Summary:
This is a heartwarming and heart-wrenching book about a little girl who is a quadriplegic. We follow her as she explains how she can handle all tasks in her mind but just does not have a way to express her feelings and thoughts. She has the chance of a lifetime when she is awarded a computer made just for her. Will being able to communicate change her life for the better?
Follow-Up Questions:
1. Would you be able to accept Melody onto the debate team despite her disability? Explain.
2. Do you think the computer will continue to help Melody or hurt her in the future? Why?
Extension Activities:
1. Write a poem about one of the following topics:
The Girl on the Inside
When Friends Betray Us
A Fish out of Water
Sisters
The Power of Words
Courage
2. Study Guide:
http://sharondraper.com/bookdetail-guides.asp?id=35
1. Yes I would let her be on the team because she gets every question rite and she has a computer
ReplyDeletethat talks for her.
2 It will help her because it talks for her because people can understand her.
1. Yes so she can help the other people on the wiz kids team so that way they can win and because she is ecstremly smart and she knows how to do things on her own and she can say the answers on her computer instead of righting with her hands.
ReplyDelete2. Hurt her because if theres a tornado she needs the computer to talk in class and tell her friends and teacher whats going on.
1 Yes I would because she deserve to have a
ReplyDeletechance to be able to be on the quiz team. 2. I think it will help her in the future because she can talk and face people.
1. I would because she is extremly smart but if my quiz team didn't tell her about breakfeast I would. And leting her be on the team will make me feel good and people will talk to her more .
ReplyDelete2.It will continue to help her .It will continue to help her because it can talk to the people she wants to talk to and there is a volume button so she can turn her volume up and yell and sceam like a normal kid.plus on the quiz team she can type her answer a,b,c or d
1. Yes!Becuase I think she is relly smart and talinted and this is relly inportent to her.Just becuase she is difricet dose not mean she is not smart. 2.I think it will still help her it helps her communicate.
ReplyDelete1. Yes I would want her on the team because she deserves it and it would be cool for her.And because she could do something fun.And she should be treated like everyone else. 2.Yes it will hurt her because it might say what Melody would say dumb or stupid things or words.
ReplyDelete1. I would want Melody on the quiz team because she's smart and she trys hard.
ReplyDelete2.I think the cpu will help her because it will keep talking to people.
1. Yes I would beacuse shes very smart and speshil she would answer evrey answer right also be REALLY HAPPY.
ReplyDelete2. I think it would still help her it helps her to talk and comicate
1.I would want her on the team because she`s smart,nice,takes her time thinking about the question. That`s why I want her on the team.
ReplyDelete2.I think it will help her by so when she is a teenager she will still have friends and can communicate with them.
I would let Melody in my team because I know that clare is not nice to her. And her computer will help because she cant talk.
ReplyDelete1. Yes I would like her on the team because she is smart. And intelligent. And the team won because of Melody.
ReplyDelete2. Yes I think the computer will help her because in the future because she will get alot of frends
1.I would want Melody on the quiz team because she's smart. But even know she can't communicate she will help us on the quiz team
ReplyDelete2.I think it will help her in the future.
1. I would want Melody on the team because she is a special girl and she know what she is doing and she is a smart girl.And she may not be the same but she is in side her.
ReplyDelete2.The computer will help her because she can communicate with people and do school work on her computer and now she love her computer
I love how so many of you would want Melody to be on your team! I am proud that you make that choice. I noticed that some of you used words like, "Stupid and Dumb", in your comment. I know that these words appeared in the book a lot but in our daily conversations let's remember how they made Melody feel and let's try not to use them. I love your input! Keep reading!
ReplyDeletei loved this book. it made me cry-yeah,im sensitive. i cant believe how mean people can be to special needs kids. THIS BOOK WILL TOUCH YOUR HEART! ITS GRIPPING :P
ReplyDeleteThis book so touching. I have leared after i read this book that we cant make fun of the special needs kids because thay are normal kids like us. This book will make you cry, its soo touching! It grbs you right from the begging!!
ReplyDeleteit is so good!!!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you because it is so touching
ReplyDeletei love it so much it well be good to rad it
ReplyDeleteOut Of My Mind is awesome.I like when the mom took the dvd paid the teacher 5 dollars and brokee the dvd.
ReplyDeleteomg like this book iz like a... uh...a lesson of what it iz like to b disabled :D :) :P lol
ReplyDeletei kindof know how melodie feels because i couldnt talk until i was about 2 or 3
ReplyDeleteI hear you
ReplyDeletei love the book and i feel so sorry for melody because she is handycaped and she cant walk or talk. im gonna cry :(
ReplyDeletei agree with every body my teacher is reading it and i cant belive what meledy is going threw
ReplyDeleteI thick that Maleiy jalues of penny
ReplyDeletei thank out of my mind is a good book becaues she,s care for others and i like when one of the girl went to the back and wonted to be her friend
ReplyDeleteThis book is kind of good so far but I think It's kind of sad
ReplyDeleteThat was sad that melody can't walk, talk, eat, and other things melody can't do.
ReplyDeleteo.m.g. this is a good boook right:]
ReplyDeleteif i could make the book beeter i wouldnt touch it
ReplyDeleteJust shows you can't judge a book by its cover, or a person by what they seem to be. Get to know them first and give them a chance. Mrs. P.
ReplyDeleteI feel sorry for Melody because she is handicaped and cannot walk or talk. If i was realated to Melody,I would help her
ReplyDeleteHow much money is the eletric wheelchair
ReplyDeletejasmine I think you did a good job at writeing that sentence.
ReplyDeletethis book just broke my heart.how her sisster gets run over.they dont take melody to the quiz bowl team.melody is somebody people can look up too.even when melody was down she never gave up.
ReplyDeletethis was best book by far
ReplyDeleteThis was the first book i read i loved it i would recommend this book excactally for this reason
ReplyDeleteYes I would definetally pick her for my debate team because it is whats on the inside that counts. Definentally she will be the next Stephen Hawking but as a kid. The end of this book breaks my heart when Melody gets left behind and Penny accidentally gets ran over by her mom. HEARTBREAKING!!!!!!!!!!
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