Novel details
The novel 'period' meant to be read for today.
Third marking period
This character challenges Hairwoman and ends up having the whole class write an essay on symbolism.
Rachel, Melinda's ex-best friend.
What Melinda is doing more and more during weekdays and ends up getting in trouble for.
Skipping school.
What being a baby rabbit is meant to symbolize when Melinda stumbles upon Andy Evans.
The feeling of vulnerability and powerlessness.
The school mascot is changed from a wombat to this animal.
Hornet
The chapter where Heather and Melinda stop being friends.
Chapter 51: Lunch Doom
This group is incorrectly associated to be Melinda's friends by the school's counselor.
The Marthas
This unfortunate event happens in the lunchroom between Melinda and Heather.
They stop being friends as Heather mention they have nothing in common.
What snow symbolizes in Hawthorne, according to Melinda.
Cold and silence.
Nathaniel Hawthorne is the author is this famous novel name-dropped in Speak.
The Scarlet Letter
The shortest chapter in this period.
Chapter 52: Conjugate This
This character is put in MISS alongside Melinda.
Andy Evans
The reason Melinda wakes up from her long nap in the janitor's closet at school.
A basketball game happening down the hall.
What the glass shards in Melinda's Cubist tree are meant to represent.
The brokenness she feels inside.
The works of this famous Spanish painter inspires Melinda to draw a Cubist tree in class.
Picasso
The chapter where Heather is confronted by her parents and the school administration for skipping school.
Chapter 55: Clash of the Titans
This character is considered to be having a breakdown, even though Melinda considers them to be one of the sanest people they know.
Mr. Freeman, the art teacher.
The wrong conclusion Melinda comes to as she is leaving Lady of Mercy Hospital.
She is not ''visibly'' sick as the people in the hospital (discredits her psychological scars)
The reason why Melinda does not go with David and his friends to get pizza.
The name of the store where Melinda's mother works.
Effert's
The chapter where the reader is cleared on what has caused Melinda so much turmoil throughout the school year.
Chapter 64: A Night to Remember
This character is assumed to have given Melinda a Valentine's Day card.
David Petrakis
The reason why Melinda hides in her closet and begins to hurt herself and cry.
The letter from Heather and her returning their friendship bracelet.
What Melinda being in MISS with people she does not like symbolize.
Feeling trapped and alone.
What the acronym MISS means.
Merryweather In-School Suspension.