Speak Day 2: Melinda's Teachers

Speak is a cleaver and an ironic title for a story in which the main character chooses not to speak. The story is written in first-person narration from the point of view of protagonist, Melinda Sordino. Speak is written like an interior monologue in the mind of an introverted teenage girl, like excerpts from her personal diary during her miserable freshman year of high school. Instead of blending in and finding her way through high school. She withdraws and secludes herself from the other students. She calls herself an "outcast." Melinda is so desperate to hide from the world; she turns an old janitor's closet at the high school into her safe haven. She cuts classes to hide in her closet. How lonely could this teenage girl be? All

Although in the story Melinda is scared to speak and open up about her harsh secrets, at the end she opens up and shows that a person needs to be strong and fight for their rights. Melinda tries to make herself fit in with classmates but has a hard time. “I am outcast” is how she refers to herself at school (4, Anderson). This means that she is not accepted by the other people at her school and does not have a bestfriend like most teenage girls do. She is all alone and does not have someone to support her in her time of need. The tree she tries to draw in art class is a big symbol of her life and how she begins to see herself as a brave person and face her problems. She overcomes her fear of Andy, makes new friends, and becomes brave. She faces these struggles through hard work and grows as a person like a seed growing into a large tree that's full of life. Speak, a book with a static and scared main character or a growing girl that sprouts into a tree of life and strength.

In “Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson,the main character is Melinda Sordino… The author wants Melinda to speak to her friends,family, and teachers. Thorough the book,Melinda has problems with her family. For example Her parents are always working.They don't check on Melinda when she gets home.

If you were sexually abused what would be the one thing that helps you open up about your rape? For Melinda it’s her ex-best friend, Rachel. In the book ‘Speak,’ Melinda gets sexually assaulted by the most popular guy in school, Andy Evans. Rachel may have been the one to open Melinda’s eyes, but she definitely did not have the intentions to help. Clueless of Melinda’s rape, she starts dating Andy Evans, and this is when Melinda realizes she has to step up and help her lost friend from being Andy Evan’s next sexual assault victim.

The teachers profiled in “Unforgettable Miss Bessie”, “My Favorite Teacher”, and “And the Orchestra Played On” are remembered and admired by the narrators. Miss Bessie, Miss Hattie, and Mr. K. possessed significant qualities that made them remarkable educators. They inspired and encouraged students. They only wanted the best for their students and prepared them for their futures, enabling them to overcome difficulties in school. Besides the content of their subject matter these educators their taught students to believe that their lives and future all depends from themselves: whether they would choose the clean asphalt road or dirty, bumpy one.

Students in Merryweather High school struggle to understand that being in their cliques won’t do them any good because all it will do is separate those who have been best friends since the end of time causing social anxiety for others. “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson wrote an explicit book of what is the true meaning on how you could change your ways when you speak up instead of staying quiet. So, How does being silent affect the individual themselves? This induces the Students to have trust issues, being mentally corrupted, and to never be true to themselves. Because of these it doesn’t allow something like for example the First Amendment Freedom of speech, this makes me ask what has our world come to?

A lot of things can shape a person’s identity. In the book Speak by Laurie Hale Anderson Melinda is the protagonist. Many things happen in the book that shapes Melinda’s identity. Two things that shape Melinda’s identity is when she called the cops at the party, and when she tells herself that she’ll get better.

Mr. Neck teaches History and he is mean, a racist, and out for Melinda. On the other hand, Mr. Freeman teaches Art, and he

In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda is attacked at an end-of-summer-party, which sends her into a state of numbness. We explore the three elements of |Melinda’s basic traits and how they change throughout the novel. Her traits change drastically as the novel progresses. Melinda Sordino is revealed as depressed, hopeless, and brave.

Speak has a bunch of themes and symbols. A tree is what represents the main character, Melinda. Melinda goes through a lot throughout her freshman year and learns a lot with it. A tree grows and has its moments and that is what Melinda story is life. The tree is a perfect way to represent her in the book and show how she deals with school, her family, and her own daily problems she encounters.

The significance of the title of the novel is that in order to be heard you have to speak up for yourself, others cannot read your mind and help you from there. Melinda suffered through her freshman year because she did not report when a popular senior, Andy Evans, raped her. No one could have helped her because no one knew about it. This reveals that the power of communication was built over human experience, we have learned that if we need support we need to speak up for ourselves. It is essential to have, you can gain loyalty, support, and trust.

This is Jenny Pacheco, I am helping Fernanda coordinting the Teachers Summit event coming up this July 28th. This email is just to follow up with you on the email Fernanda sent you. Can you please let us know at your earliest convenience if you are going to be able to support us.

Mr. Freeman is Melinda’s art teacher. Melinda explains that he is ugly and is built like a “stilt-walking circus guy’’.He is also very passionate about his job as he tries to build their creativity.

In the book "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson, tow adults are Mr. Neck and Mr. Freeman. Mr. Neck is know to not like Melinda and believes she is nothing but trouble, however Mr. Freeman one the other hand is a very positive teacher that doesn't hate his students. Mr. Freeman is the art teacher that tries to teach life lessons through art to help interest the students in what there drawing, he has helped Melinda by helping her express her feelings she is going through. On the other had Mr. Neck is a history teacher that only cares about the teaching subject at hand and not how it can relate to the students he is teaching, the first sighs of Mr. Neck being out to get Melinda is because all she has done is walk into the classroom and he already

Mr neck is a very strict teacher. He would cut no one any slack and not take any disrespect.He is a very serious teacher and very old.Also i think he would be bald and kinda fat.He could wear a button up and jeans everyday to class.