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Marking Period Activities
Marking Period Three Activities
Talking Points:
More self-harm:
Melinda's silence: Why won’t Melinda speak even when her parents and counselor reach out to her? Are they really reaching out or just blaming?
The incident: (p.133) What happened that night is finally confirmed.
Choose one of the following topics:
Your assignment:
Research your topic by looking at various websites and/or books
More self-harm:
- bleeding thumb (p. 109)
- recurring lip dryness (p. 125)
- Read these excerpts. What is your reaction to these incidents? Do you think Melinda is intentionally harming herself? If so, why?
Melinda's silence: Why won’t Melinda speak even when her parents and counselor reach out to her? Are they really reaching out or just blaming?
The incident: (p.133) What happened that night is finally confirmed.
- Is it what you thought it would be?
- What is the your reaction to her ordeal?
- Do you think Melinda's behaviour is reasonable, now that you know what "the incident" was?
- Sexual Assault: ("A Night to Remember" -- pp. 133-136)
- Read the myths about sexual assault in the following links:
- The Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres
- University of Toronto: Ask First Campaign
- Myths and Facts of Sexual Assault, Canada: Dispelling Misconceptions and Promoting Awareness
- Centre for Relationship Abuse Awareness: What men can do to stop rape?
Choose one of the following topics:
- Maya Angelou: biography.com
- Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter: biography.com and The Literature Network
- Suffragettes and women fighting to get the right to vote in the United States: Famous Suffragettes
- Picasso and Cubism: pablopicasso.org
- Sexual assault and date rape: Myths and Facts, Statistics, Was I Raped?
- Self-harm: Youth and Self Injury
- Syracuse, New York: google!
Your assignment:
Research your topic by looking at various websites and/or books
- Decide on the most important information about your topic
- Create a google slides presentation that highlights the most important information
- You may use images and/or video clips, if appropriate or relevant
- Include how your topic relates to the novel Speak
- Include a list of resources you used