ILL GIVE YOU BRAINEST Read the excerpt from Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry.
How best could a reader make a text-to-self connection for
this excerpt?
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
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