You will complete a worksheet on literary elements in your novel or short story.

Out of My Mind
by Sharon M. Draper

Synopsis
Eleven-year-old Melody is not like most people. She can't walk. She can't talk. She can't write. All because she has cerebral palsy. But she also has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She's the smartest kid in her whole school, but NO ONE knows it. Most people—her teachers, her doctors, her classmates—dismiss her as mentally challenged because she can't tell them otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by her disability. And she's determined to let everyone know it…somehow.
Review
"If there's one book teens and parents (and everyone else) should read this year, Out of My Mind should be it."
–Denver Post

Describe the protagonist of your novel or short story.
The protagonist of my novel is a tough, sixteen-year-old girl named Delaney who is struggling to raise her little sisters.

Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.
"Although she was just sixteen years old, Delaney had spent much of them providing for her sisters. She displayed the toughness – and weariness – of someone twice her age." (page 16)

Title of short story or novel

Author

Describe the setting of your novel or short story.
Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.

Describe the protagonist of your novel or short story.
Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.

Discuss the main conflict in your novel or short story. If the conflict is not perfectly clear yet, what do you suspect it will be? Which of the four major types of conflict best describes the situation you discussed?
Describe the antagonist from your novel or short story.
Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.

Describe an important piece of the backstory from your novel or short story.
Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.

Describe an early development in the plot and explain why it is important.
Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.