Vocabulary
Characters
Melinda
Details
Miscellaneous
100
a fragrant mixture of dried flower petals and spices
What is Potpourri?
100
Suffers from trauma-induced silence
Who is Melinda Sordino?
100
While at school, Melinda hides where?
Unused Janitors closet
100
Where does David Petrakis' and Melinda first becoming acquainted?
Biology, they were lab partners.
100
Melinda feels that her parents would be what if she were never born?
Divorced.
200
happening all at the same time.
What is Synchronized?
200
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Who is Andy Evans?
200
What does Melinda compare art class to?
A dream following a nightmare
200
What are some of Melinda's physical symptoms?
sore throat, raw lips, and biting her nails.
200
The Sordinos' Thanksgiving "feast" can best be described as:
A Fiasco
300
a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
What is a Mortuary?
300
Art Teacher-establishes student-oriented classroom.
Who is Mr. Freeman
300
What does Melinda encounter during her first day of school?
Distant from other students, trouble in classes, rejection from former best friends?
300
What was David Petrakis' debate with the social studies over?
Results in the threat of a lawsuits
300
Melinda's suicide attempt is the aftermath of what?
Fighting with her parents over her grades.
400
gloom, depression
What does it mean to be in a funk?
400
Melinda's Mother, reacts to daughter in anger or indifference
Who is Mrs. Sordino?
400
What happens to Melinda at the pep rally?
Someone yanks her hair, other students are mean to her, she jabbed in the back.
400
Mr. Freeman begins a painting as a protest against the school board because?
They have cut his school budget for the current year
400
When Melinda realizes her friendship with Heather has ended, she feels what?
A great sense of loss.
500
Persistent; showing great determination in holding on to something that is valued
What is Tenacious?
500
talented art student who is friendly to Melinda
Who is Ivy?
500
Why is Halloween especially lonely for Melinda?
No ones invites her to go trick-or-treating, she is aware of Rachel's party, she remembers last year with her friends.
500
Melinda is reminded of her own trauma while studying what in English?
The symbolism in The Scarlet Letter
500
Mr. Freeman's concern for Melinda is exemplified by the following statement:
"When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time."
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