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Second marking period (Mr.Neck:He is Melindas social studies teacher.He…
Second marking period
Mr.Neck:He is Melindas social studies teacher.He has grey jock buzz cut and thick neck.Mr neck dislikes most of his students.His son wants to be a firefighter.
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Characters,Melinda:She is a artist,very shy,brown eyes and brown eyebrows.She found out that she is basketball.
Mr.Freeman: He is the art teacher,he is cool because he complains about school.Melinda describes him as a big old grasshoper body.And very tall,he expects a lot from Melinda.
Heather:She loves making friends and was Melindas first friend.She lives in Ohio, she also wants to be a nurse
Ms.Conners:Is Melindas gym teacher.There is no fisical description about here she told Melinda that she should join the basketball team because she plays really good.
Dad:There is no description of his body.It says that he normally is using a tie and a suit.He expects a lot from Melinda with her grades.
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"Im sure they suspect I was at the party".Pg 72 Melinda starts to remember about the party when talking with her parents.This is conflict because Melinda starts to remember the party thrughout the book.You want to know what is causing her to remember about the party.This conflict makes want to read more and find out what is happening.
"He is threatening to sue the school district and mr Neck for everything from incompetence to civil right violations."PG 68 This creates conflict because mr Neck can get in big trouble because of what he said to David.You can see how Mr Neck is not rude to only Melinda but also to Davis.
"I think about studying,but its a holiday,so I park myself on the living room couch and wathed an old movie instead."PG 60 This is conflict because you can see how Melinda does not care about her grades.She also does not listen to her parents.You can see how she is lazy when it comes to doing homework.Melinda needs work hard if she wants to be in the basketball team because her grades are very low.
Quotes:"School,it starts with a test, a test of my desires and dreams."PG 52 I choose this quote because you can see that the school really wants to influence the students future.Melinda still has doubt of what she will be when she grows up.
Mr.Neck:"I decide who talks in here."Pg 56 This quote is important becauseyou can see how the teacher screams at the students.Mr Neck dislikes Melinda and Dave.You can see how Mr Neck is very mean.
"The knife and fork are obiously middle class sensibilities."PG 64 I choose this quote because you can see how much imagination mr Freeman has.You can also see how he encourages other students to love art as he does.
"He glares at David the whole time he is speaking."PG 68 I choose this quote because you can see that Mr neck is rude with kids that stand up for themselves.
"Heather gives me my cristmas present early/bell earings that chim when I turn my head."PG 69 This quote is important because you can see how Heather really cares about Melinda.You can also see how they are great friends and are always there for each other.
Figurative Language:Hyperbole,"I dont know what I am doing in the next five minutes and she had the next 10 years to figure it out."(53)She is exagerating that she does not know what she is going to do on the next 5 minutes.
Metaphor:"Mr.Neck storms into class,a bull chasing 33 red flags."(53)This is a metaphor because it means that mister neck is rushing into class like a bull.
Hyperbole:"He says a million things without saying a word."(57) She is exagerating that he is saying a million words when he isnt.
Alliteration:"We are the wombats,wossy,wicket wombats!Worried, withdrawn,Whipy,weird wombats."(PG 69)It is an alliteration because Melinda is reapiting the letter w.
Onomatopoeia:"She keeps bouncing balls my way,and I keep putting them up/swich,swich,swich."(75)This is an Onomatopoeia because she is making the sound when the bsaket ball goes thru the hoop.
Simile:"All the anger whistles out of me like im a popped ballon."(74)Its a simile because its comparing her to a popped ballon.