Name erate Speak Crossword Puzzle Read these clues carefully, I t R they will help ex evicw you review! 3 ie ie F P a f= 7 Iz TF i Fe 7 is ro | FA i ps ee ar ee speak = Bs Across Tip: Use pencil 3. Melinda’s (ex)friend who is involved with art and drama. 4. In many ways, Speak is the story of Melinda coming to terms with the fact that what happened was not her 6. The second time Andy attacks Melinda, we see that her joumey throughout the year has enabled her to herself, and finally speak up.8. Melinda avoiding for most of the novel signals that she cannot yet face what happened to her. 11. Melinda’s last name, Sordino, means 12. Melinda finds two sanctuaries in school, her art ‘class and the 13. Melinda’s narrative tone is negative and 17. Heather joins the 19. After Thanksgiving Melinda makes a sculpture made out of 22. Melinda’s (ex)ftiend who is extremely good at sports, nice to everyone, and who is there to help Melinda out of the janitor’s closet after she’s been attacked. 23. For most of the book Melinda refers to Andy Evans as IT, but she also refers to him as 25. The novel is organized by terms. 26. Melinda’s English teacher. 27. The character who tries throughout the book to listen to Melinda, who encourages her to speak, who gives her a safe place to explore herself. 29. Melinda sleeping all the time, gaining weight, and ignoring her personal hygiene, are both defense mechanisms, and symptoms of her growing F 30. Melinda’s school Merryweather changes its several times within one academic year. Down 1. Girls like Rachel and the Marthas have a hard time believing rumors about Andy Evans because he is cute, , tich, and his attention flatters them. 2. The triggers Melinda’s flashback. 5. Melinda’s ongoing art assignment for the school year is to work with fs 7. Playing with her hair, whispering things to her, and offering her food he’s been eating are examples of Andy Evans” ongoing against Melinda. 8. Melinda’s History teacher who labels her as a “bad kid”. 9. Melinda says she does not speak because she believes no one would listen to, or her. 10. Melinda does not speak because she has to first what has happened to her, and personally cope with it, before she tells others. 14, Melinda uses extended metaphors to describe herself feeling victimized by Andy; she repeatedly compares herself to a 15. Melinda’s art teacher gets angry at the because they do not like him giving all A’s and letting the students listen to music. 16. Melinda’s lab partner who befriends her and helps her with her extra credit history report. 18, When the book begins, Melinda says, “I am Outcast”; it is not that she is a ‘loner’ or has no friends, but rather that people are angry with her and are her. 20. When Melinda opens her Christmas present of art supplies she cries because she was surprised and touched to discover that her parents had actually to her. 21. Often there is imagery whenever Andy Evans is mentioned. 24. Drawing, writing notes with Rachel, and writing on the bathroom stall, are all examples of. ways that Melinda finds to without actually speaking. 28. Melinda’s (ex)best friend who gets caught up in the glamour of the foreign exchange students and the attention of Andy Evans.