speak discussion questions 1

. Melinda's first day was, to her, was apperenly a long boring day of analyzing school and everything about it. what the teachers are like, what the students are like, how the kids in high school group themselves into clans or 'cliques' and how people are going to treat her after what she did last summer. Her fears were more intense for her and not for others because she had called the cops at a really dig party during the summer and they came and crashed it. What she means when she says 'i am Outcast' is how she didn;t feel that she belonged there and that she felt alone.

2. The word 'clans' is just another way of saying 'a group of people that protet themselves and only associate with the other people in the group'. people get put into clans or cliques at school so that they can feel like they fit in. and also its a good thing to surround yourself with pople that resect you and make you feel better about yourself. We sometimes dont like people that are especially good at certain thing becasue of jealousy. it is not really fair on their part becasue we need to support them but instead we let our emotions take hold and we look at them like they should not have the gift of talent and that we should.

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4. Melinda's description of her teaches are not about their names or their teaching methods but their their physical characteristics. Her descriptions represent their look or how they act or how they look when they act.

5. Mr. freeman's teaching method is like a classic laid back art teacher kind of teacher. he wants you to express you feelings through art and he will teach you how if you dont know. yes i think i have had teachers like him before, i cant say exatly who but i do remeber having a teacher or two in the past like that.

6.Communication in Melinda's family seems pretty poor. they never seem to talk to anyone. and if they do need to talk they write their thoughts down on a sheet of paper so that someone will see it eventually. If i were a parent i would be communicate with my kids like how any other person would. with verbal conversation, but since i dont want my kids to grow up hating me like i did with mine, ill just give them some space and thy'll understand and will give me space when i need it so there isn't any fighting.

7. The interaction between heather and melinda is more of a not so much good friend interaction but more like a...i have no one else and you are nice interaction. I would say they are friends but not good ones and it seems as though melinda doesn't even really like heather. The thing that brings them together would be the fact that they are both outcasts, have no friends, and are somewhat kinda shy-ish.

8. Yes I think everyone is someone else on the outside than they are one the inside. Some people make it so difficult to see what kind of person they are inside but others are exatly the same..maybe. some people, like me, tend to show exaltly who they are on the inside on the outside but people try so hard that they miss the big picture. i wear black because i think its a cool color and that it makes me feel alittle more like the way i am, i dont like to show emoton becasue i know that at times showing emotion is a sign of weakness. but i will show you a happy side if you catch me in the right mood. you see everyone has a side that they dont show and i think its 100 percent true. mostly becasue of how we want others to see us or how we want to fit in to the crowds at school or just because of past experiences that have caused us to become inverted.