A reader could make a text-to-self connection for this excerpt by remembering a time when one had trouble falling asleep. This connection relates directly to the character's experience of struggling to fall asleep and the methods she uses to cope with that difficulty, which may resonate with the reader's own experiences.
Read the excerpt from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Unable to sleep, I resigned myself to await his return by counting states. Miss Crocker had had a big thing about states, and I sometimes found that if I pretended that she was naming them off I could fall asleep. I decided to count the states geographically rather than alphabetically; that was more of a challenge.
How best could a reader make a text-to-self connection for this excerpt?
by remembering an important test that one was worried about
by asking one’s sibling what it is like to have trouble falling asleep
by remembering a time when one had trouble falling asleep
by asking one’s teacher to explain what the excerpt means
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