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Exposition
Melody Brooks is a very intelligent eleven year-old girl. She has never been able to talk at all or move much since she was born. Because of this she is in a specail needs class. Yet she is the smartest person in Spaulding Street Elementary School. But to show it, she needs words.This story takes place in the present, in Ohio. The school that Melody attends is named Spaulding Street Elementary School. -
Conflict
Melody enters an inclusion classroom. She gets the chance to interact with "normal" kids. Not all students and teachers welcome her into the school or treat her well. Everyone thinks that Melody has nothing going on inside her brain when she has so much to say. People (Claire, Molly, etc.) don't think however she deserves much respect. -
Rising Action
Melody joins the schools quiz team. She becomes the best on the team, despite what Mr. D and other students thought at first. Melody's team wins the competition and now has to travel to Washington D.C. -
Climax
Melody and her family get to the airport to find that flights have been delayed because of the weather and the team left without her on an earlier flight. Later it turns out that they all went to breakfast together. Melody was not invited because they were afraid that she would slow them down because she has to be fed. They got to the airport early and found that they could just make this one earlier flight. Rose was going to call Melody, but everyone shook their heads. They boarded without her. -
Falling Action
Penny crawls under the car to grab Doodle, her stuffed animal. Melody kicks and screams to try to tell her mom not to back out of the driveway, but her mom can't understand what she means so she backs out, and runs over Penny. Penny is rushed to the hospital and Melody over to Mrs. V's house. Melody fears Penny will also get bran damage and end up like her. -
Resolution
While Penny does get injured, she is fine. Now that Melody has her Media Talker, she is now understood and people have stopped teasing her. She has so much to say. She is getting her thoughts out of her mind and letting other people become informed.
