1. Discuss what predictions Melinda's skipping school and what she does.
Answer: she gets in a fight with her mom, also went to the hospital to see if she was pregnant or not.
2. Was being a child better than being a teenager? In what ways? In what ways is it better to be older? Why is it hard to be in between childhood and adulthood?
Answer: Yes, doing what you wanted to do, trying out new things in the life we're living right now. We'll miss on what we did since we were little.
3. Analyze the reference to the symbols in The Scarlet Letter and Melinda would adapt the letter "A"?
Answer: she doesn't talk, embarrassed, and feels like an outcast.
4. Discuss the dissolution of Melinda and Heather's friendship and the effect it has on Melinda. What is the meaning of friendship?
Answer: Heather thought that Melinda was the bestest friend she ever had, but turns out that she was tired of a sad depressed girl Melinda was. Means a lot to them the most.
5. Analyze the events and effects of Valentine's Day on Melinda and the aftermath.
Answer: one of her worst days of her life, also she was thinking about the time she got raped that night too. She felt so torn all together.
6. Melinda wishes her science teacher would teach them about love and betrayal instead of about the birds and the bees. Where do we learn about things like that? Can we learn love from a book? Explain?
Answer: that's what she feels about her class. From life, movies, and people. Yes, gives you good tips on how to love one another.
7. Discuss what happens when Melinda is placed in In-School Suspension. How would you to this situation?
Answer: feels more depressed, and more intense, plus Andy's there with her too. That was even more worse than ever. It would shocked me when he trys to talk to me.
8. Analyze Mr. Freeman's effect on Melinda, inside and outside the art class. Do you agree with his statement, "When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time."
Answer: That statement is always true to some people when they feel like that all the time.
9. Mr. Freeman also says that "You must walk alone to find your soul." What does this mean? Is it true? What is a soul?
Answer: Try to find the trueness of yourself and bring it out in the open.
10. Mr. Freeman tells his class, "art is about making mistakes and learning from them." What else is like this? Explain.
Answer: like learning from what you did wrong from the past and bring it out by expessing the pain we have inside ourselves.
11. Examine Melinda's self-image and her survival techniques after Heather's rejection.
Answer: she stood up for herself, and it felt good to her.
12. Examine Melinda's revelation about the night of the party and its residual effect on her.
Answer: she felt so helpless of herself, she lost herself at that party when she got raped.
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