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The Skin I’m In – Section Review

Chapters 11-13

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 Questions (50 points):

Chapter 11
1. Why don’t you want the lunch ladies upset with you?

2. What does Miss Brown do to Charlese?

3. What does Charlese ask Maleeka to do?

4. Why does Maleeka leave Charlese with a big smile on her face?

5. Who does Maleeka sit with at lunch?

6. What do Desda and Maleeka do at the lunch table?

7. Why does Maleeka think Charlese acts like she likes Caleb?

8. Why does Maleeka do other people’s homework?

Chapter 12
1. How do you know that Maleeka likes the book that Ms. Saunders gave her?

2. Why does John-John pick on Maleeka?

3. Why was Worm sitting in Daphne’s desk?

Chapter 13
1. Why was Ms. Saunders late for class?

2. How much homework does Ms. Saunders assign?

3. What was on the backboard?

4. Why does Miss Saunders kick out John-John?

5. What are two things that people said they would be willing to die for?

6. How did Maleeka’s mom react when her father died?

7. Why does her mom sew clothes?

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Skill Focus: Making Inferences (25 points)

Directions: Complete the following inference graphic organizer on situations that have occurred in Chapters
11-13.

Question What the book says What I already know My Inference

**Write down page number

Why does Maleeka

still have negative
feelings toward Miss
Saunders? (Chapter
12)

What can we infer

about John-John’s
feelings for Maleeka?
(Chapter 13)

Discussion Questions (25 points):

Directions: Choose one of the following writing prompts to write a paragraph response (5 sentences
minimum).

1. In Chapter 13, Jerimey says, “You gotta love youself, baby. If you don’t who will?” Why is loving
yourself so important? Why is it sometimes difficult?

2. Assumptions we make about others can build walls (like with Maleeka and John John). How can these
kinds of walls be torn down?