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The Skin I’m In – Section Review

Chapters 4-6

Directions: Please answer each question in complete sentences on your own paper. Questions
do not have to be written. Once you finish attach this cover sheet with your work.

Chapter 4
1. Where is Maleeka in this chapter?

2. What question does Miss Saunders ask the students to write about?

3. What does John-John say about his face?

4. How did Miss Saunders get the spot on her face?

5. What does Miss Saunders think of herself?

6. What kind of company does Miss Saunders work for?

7. Do you agree or disagree with Miss Saunders that you should “accept yourself for who you
are”? Explain.

Chapter 5
1. How does Maleeka’s mom have extra money to buy her clothes?

2. How do the kids at school react to Maleeka’s new clothes?

3. Who does Miss Saunders tell Maleeka to work with?

4. What is Desda good at?

5. Why won’t Desda ever spend her prize money?

6. Who are the students supposed to pretend to be?

7. Who does Maleeka pretend to be in her diary?

8. Why did Maleeka make her character’s name “Akeelma”?

9. What does Miss Saunders ask Maleeka to do after class?

10. Why does Maleeka say that she will keep writing the diary?
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Chapter 6
1. What ruins Maleeka’s good day?

2. Who is Daphne Robinson and why is she mad at Maleeka?

3. Who is Daphne’s boyfriend?

4. Why doesn’t Char step in and stick up for Maleeka?

5. What does it say about Char that she won’t help Maleeka?

6. Who comes in just as Maleeka is punching Daphne back?

7. Who is Mr. Pajolil?

8. What does Miss Saunders do to help Maleeka when she’s hurt?

Skill Focus: Figurative Language

Directions: Write down four (4) examples of figurative language found in chapters 4-6. Write
down what the literal meaning is.

Discussion Questions:
Directions: Choose one of the following writing prompts to write a ½ page response.

1. “I guess there ain’t no accounting for what folks see in their own mirrors.” What is
Maleeka talking about in this quote? Compare the way Maleeka views herself and the
way others view her.

2. In Chapter Five Maleeka created a diary entry for a teenager living in the seventeenth
century. She decides to write about a slave girl. Choose a distant time period and write
about the world as seen through someone else’s eyes.