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May 10, 2012

The summary of this story so far is that Melinda doesnt have any friends. She is starting high school and everything has changed for her. Something big happened in the summer that caused all of the friends she used to have not to like her anymore. But, she gets introduced to a girl named Heather and they become friend. They are totally different people and have different opnions on like everything. Melinda has to learn how to make friends and survive all the teachers in high school.

Aaysha Williams (:

Some connecting points of the story that relate to real high school life are, the way that some kids treat others( ignore/tease them). There is also every stereotyped group such as jocks, nerds, popular kids, and goth kids. The way that students cant get along with teachers. Lastly, sometimes kids lose their best friend and can't find a new one so they have to be alone.

Jacob Arent



- A u s t i n M o r g a n I think this picture you chose is a good choice.! This tree is a very big part in the book. It shows that melinda never gives up on something. She could have given up a while ago on this art project but she never did ! -aaysha WIlliams!

Page 36 paragraph 7. This is the death voice, the voice that means busness. I chose this beacuse it is such a accurate representation of how her whole life is run. Always a pawn of everybodies game and never getting a say in anything -Jacob Yerkey

__**Why do you think melinda acts the way she does? what do you think about the art project she has to do? Are there any questions about what is happening at this point in the story?~ Kris Myhal**__ How is her mental state of being effecting her social life?-jacob yerkey

May 17, 2012

The summary is that it is second quarter and she still doesn't have any friends.\ And she is stuck at the house with her dad trying to make the dinner but ruins the dinner so they just decide to order pizza. Melinda takes the wishbone and rips the head of the barbie doll and puts the wishbone on the barbie doll. Her art teacher thinks it is interestingthat she does that. When she has biology class she has to descected a frog but she can't do it because it reminds her of what had happened at the party and why she had to call the cops. - Kris M.



this picture represents the frogs that the kids have to dissect in class, and apparently frog juice smells like a cross between a nursing home and potato salad

- Jacob Arent

The picture that Jacob has shown above is a picture of a frog, which has a significance with the science lab experiment that Melinda had to dissect. -Austin Morgan

The picture of the frog resembles the science lab. -Kris M.

Pg. 79 Paragraph 2:

I picked this passage because it is showing how Heather is still trying to fit in, but no one is accepting her and she still doesn't understand why no one likes her. She doesn't realize that people can hate people for the smallest reasons possible. People will judge you on how you act or what you wear, or even if they are just jealous of you. You can not fit in with people if you try too hard to fit in and are too preppy. Heather is always positive with things and some people, for some reason get annoyed with that. If she is getting made fun of or picked on in the group she is in, she should try to find a different group with people just like her.

-Austin Morgan

I agree with Austin, if your not fitting in the best thing to do is to move on and find other people that are like you

-Jacob Arent

I agree with austin and jacob you really should move on and try and find new friends. - Kris M.

I connect with this part of the story we are reading becasue i dont have anyone at home that im close to other than my brothers. Thats really it. Just like melinda she is not very close with her parents. Thats like me. -aaysha williamss

May 24, 2012

What does her scupture in art represent? Jacob Yerkey

page 136, paragraph 2, she calls the cops to report that she was raped and everbody thinks she called them to crash the party so she loses all her friends and everbody hates her. -Jacob Arent

Why doesn't Melinda say no when Andy was trying to rape her? - She does, but he did it anyway -Jacob Arent  Why does Melinda call the police at the party? To report that she was raped -Jacob Arent  Why did Melinda decline going to the party? Why do you think that Melinda's grades are dropping? - Austin Morgan

can connect the fact that party's do get crashed for the wrong reason. the rape in our society is similar from the book. - Kris M

. I picked a picture of Picasso because he inspired Melinda in art class. He was a very helpful person in this book.

-aaysha williams

May 30, 2012

Melinda is still going through her everyday life just trying to get through. She is becoming friends with Ivy again she is also getting along with her lab partner. She actually tried to fight for her right to present a project in a loop hole of how the teacher told her to. She got in trouble for it, but she felt a little more freedom. She ended up having to tell Rachael to not date Andy because of how he raped her. At first, it seemed that she didn't believe her but at the prom she left Andy. Melinda was shortly happy about it, but then Andy locked her in her closet. They fought for a short amount of time over how she told Rachael that he raped her. Melinda got free and the hockey team saw what happened and spread the word. Everyone was fond of Melinda after the event and felt bad for her. Melinda ended up completing her tree project for art class, and ended up getting an A for the project. - Austin Morgan

Jacob Arent

1. why did andy want revenge on melinda?

2. what did melinda do to stop him?

3. how did the story end?

This reminds me when Andy Tries to rape her again. - Kris M.