In order to know how Melody feels we made a communication boards with words we use everyday at school to communicate with people around us. Then we had to communicate with our partners by only using the words we put on out boards. The purpose of this was to see how Melody has to live everyday, and the frustration she has to go through. Also this shows us that we have so much to appreciate in life, like words that not everybody is able to use just as easy as somebody like me.

When making my communication board I was mainly putting on words like can, why, because, and that, since you use most of those in your sentences when you talk. A phrase that i chose was “Can I go to the bathroom” “I am thirsty” things like that because at school instead of spelling the whole thing out, it’s easier to just to put it into one full phrase. If i could go back and fix my communication board i would add words like give, under, high, above, past, and words that you would need in a detailed sentence.I would pick those because if i want to talk about something that’s hard to say, i would want words that you could use in detail.

My experience with a communication board was difficult and frustrating, especially when i was trying to say something but didn’t have the right words. When communicating with my partner about homework i couldn’t just start off by just saying “where is you homework” I didn’t have those words, so with my whole board the two words i used where “Me HW” which hardly made sense. Through my whole conversation it wasn’t a full sentence you would say to somebody, it was only one or two words I could use because of the certain things i put on my board. I also felt like i wouldn’t be able to last a full day without my words, knowing that I couldn’t hardly even go through one conversation use two words every sentence.

Going through this activity i have much more respect for Melody, knowing that it’s frustrating sometimes when you can’t say what you really want to say. When Melody gets her tornados explosion it’s much more understanding now knowing how hard it can be trying to talk to somebody about something as simple as naming your dog your favorite candy. This definitely impacts how i will see the rest of the story, and how Melody keeps trying to communicate to the people around her. Also knowing the difficulties of a communication board the fact that Melody wasn’t even able to pick what words she wanted, that really impacts how i view Melody and the rest of the story of Out Of My Mind.