
What does this say about her school system, or about attitudes at her school about teaching children with special needs?Ħ. Discuss Melody’s teachers since she began going to school. How does Melody feel about school? How does she fit in with her classmates and what makes her different from the rest of the children in H-5? What would be Melody’s ideal school situation?ĥ. How do they learn to communicate with Melody and help her to overcome everyday problems? Why are those efforts sometimes a complete failure?Ĥ. In a world that does not work for her, what seems to cause the biggest frustrations for Melody?ģ. How does this help capture the reader’s attention? What predictions can the reader make about the narrator of the story? What inferences can be made about the thought processes of the narrator’s mind?Ģ. The novel opens with a powerful discussion of the power of words and language.
