The Skin I'm In

Why does Maleeka got to be with us, anyhow”

. . . Maleeka is corny and ugly.

• Raina

• Tai

• Miss Saunders

• Char

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“My face says I’m smart. Sassy. Sexy. Self-confident. It says I’m caring and, yes, even a little cold sometimes.”

• Maleeka

• JuJu

• Char

• Miss Saunders

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“I shouldn’t have left you when they started teasing you . . .I figured if I left you, the other kids would stop messing with you.”

• John-John

• Caleb

• Maleeka's mom

• Char

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“You gotta think that you worth saving, baby. Gotta realize that who you are is all you got.”

• Miss Saunders

• Char

• Maleeka's mom

• Maleeka

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“To tell you the truth, she was a freak like me.”

• Maleeka

• Miss Saunders

• Char

• John-John

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“We ain’t hiding this behind no closed doors. I want this thing out in the open. Right is right, so let’s handle our business here. . . “

• John-John

• Char

• JuJu

• Maleeka

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“You can thank me for how good Maleeka looks.”

• JuJu

• Maleeka's mom

• Miss Saunders

• Char

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“ . . . it’s your need to be perfect that will ruin you here, not how you look.”

• Tai

• Miss Saunders

• Maleeka

• Sweets

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“You always thought you was better than me. Now look at you. You just as bad off as the rest of us. Worse, maybe.”

• Caleb

• John-John

• Sweets

• Raina

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“It’s not about color . . .It’s how you feel about who you are that counts . . . I’m as good as the queen of England . . .”

• Char

• Caleb

• Raise

• Sweets

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3