Speak Final Assessment

1. One of the times my inner voice and outer voice were in disagreement was when I was failing some of my classes and didn’t ask for help. I don’t think I spoke up and asked my teachers about it was because I felt like I couldn’t keep up with all of my work. This action caused myself and my parents to be upset that I was getting bad grades and I had a lot of work to catch up on. I can relate to this now because my grades aren’t very good although I am staying after and doing all that I can to make up the work that I missed. I wanted to ask for help when I needed it but I felt really stressed out with all the work I was missing so I didn’t say anything. This problem could have easily been solved if I had just asked for help ahead of time before I had a lot of work to catch up on. My outer voice was to not say anything and I made the wrong decision by doing that because I need to do the work in order to bring up my grades and be happy with how I am doing

2. One of the times my inner voice and outer voice were in harmony was when people were talking about my brother and calling him names so I said something to them because they were being unfair and I wanted to stand up for my brother and nobody should treat him like that. I felt that it was right to do because I am not going to let anyone talk to my brother in that way. They were bullying him and they were wrong for doing that so I told them not to talk to him like that. I think that if you see somebody getting bullied and picked on you should think about how you would feel if you were them and stand up for that person.

3a. I think that Melinda’s inner voice helps her through the tough times she has because she can be funny and sarcastic. The way she thinks about certain situations in her head aren’t ever heard because she is too afraid to speak aloud.

Speak Final Assessment

Speak Final Assessment

One of the times my inner voice and outer voice were in harmony was when people were talking about my brother and calling him names so I said something to them because they were being unfair and I wanted to stand up for my brother and nobody should treat him like that. I felt that it was right to do because I am not going to let anyone talk to my brother in that way. They were bullying him and they were wrong for doing that so I told them not to talk to him like that. I think that if you see somebody getting bullied and picked on you should think about how you would feel if you were them and stand up for that person.

Book review 1

Quarter 1 Outside reading book

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. October 1, 2006. Genre:Fiction

Miranda, the main character in Life As We Knew It has to fight for her life when asteroids hits the moon on Wednesday, May 18. It creates worldwide disasters because when the moon shifts, so does the environment. It wipes out many coastal cities, killing millions of people. There is a very limited supply of food which leads many people to starvation and murder just to get food from people. Miranda and her brother can no longer go to school and there is no supplies at the grocery store left for people to buy. How long can Miranda survive with minimal food and water, no heat or electricity, and subzero temperatures.

The conflict in the book is that the world is coming to an end and people are running out of supplies and resources. Miranda just wants to lead a normal life but she can’t because of what is going on around her.

The theme of the book is to never give up, always have hope and look on the bright side.

“We may not have a future, but you can’t deny we have a past.” -Miranda

This quote shows that even though the future isn’t looking so good, she has lived a good life in the past and that is all that matters.

I give this book 4 paws - pounce on it, because it was a good story and I really enjoyed it, but at times it could be confusing and parts of the book didn’t make sense.

5 words that describe Melinda

Mysterious- I think Melinda is mysterious because she barely talks to anyone and doesn’t share what she is feeling with other people. She also hides her emotions from people a lot of times and she always keeps her thoughts to herself.

Miserable- I think Melinda is miserable because since the party she has been very traumatized. The friends she used to have now hate her and she doesn’t have anyone to talk to.

Sarcastic- Melinda is very sarcastic when talking to herself because it helps her deal with some of her problems by being humorous. I think this is a good way for her to express her feelings towards people when she is having a tough time.

Angry- When Melinda starts school and has no friends because of the incident at the party she tends to get upset at what is going on in her life. Nobody wants to talk to her and she is always alone because of what she did at the party. If people gave her a chance to explain herself i think she would be a lot happier but she would also have to be willing to communicate.

Vulnerable- I think the feeling that best describes Melinda would be vulnerable because she has caused a lot of anger towards other people. When she called the cops at the party a lot of people got fired from their jobs or got in trouble with the authorities.

Vulnerable

Melinda is vulnerable to a lot of bullying and mean behavior from other kids because of the night during the summer when she called the cops on Kyle’s party.”I get hosted in Spanish. “Linda means “pretty” in Spanish. This is a great joke. Mrs.Spanish Teacher calls my name. Some stand-up comic cracks, “No, Melinda no es linda.” They call me Me-no-linda for the rest of the period.” This passage in the book shows that Melinda is vulnerable to the teasing and bullying if other kids all because of one incident.

I don’t think it’s fair that Melinda is very vulnerable to bullying because she got raped at the party and did the right thing by calling the cops. The thing is she didn’t tell the cops she was raped so everybody thought she did it to get people in trouble. I don’t understand why people are so mad at her because i would think they would suspect something else going on because she wouldn’t just call the cops out of nowhere.