Read this excerpt about angel island, an immigration station in the 1900s. entry into the united states was most difficult for the chinese. in part, angel island was built to enforce laws that restricted chinese immigration. such laws as the chinese exclusion act of 1882 were written out of prejudice and fear that chinese workers were taking jobs away from european americans. around 30 percent of chinese immigrants at angel island were forced to return to china. the rest, those who could prove they had a husband or father who was a us citizen, were allowed to enter the mainland united states. which student response to the excerpt is an example of a text-to-text connection? this story about angel island reminds me of my grandmother, because she is chinese. this story about angel island reminds me of the time our family visited san francisco. this story about angel island reminds me of the feelings i had when our family moved to the united states. this story about angel island reminds me of a book i read called children of ellis island.

The correct answer is D. This story about Angel Island reminds me of a book I read called Children of Ellis Island.

Explanation:

In reading, text-to-text connection implies you are able to relate the information of a text (an article, book, story) to the information in a different text usually because the topic, theme, historical context, etc. are similar in both texts. This differs from a text-to-self connection in which one related the content of a text with personal experiences and opinions.

According to this, the one that is an example of text-to-text connection is "This story about Angel Island reminds me of a book I read called Children of Ellis Island" because in this case, the student relates the information about immigration though the Ellis Island provided in the excerpt to a book that also deals with the same topic and historical context.

b is the answer

with mrs. linde, nora reveals her insensitivity and lack of shame about the forgery she committed. she implies that mrs. linde has obviously aged since they last met 10 years earlier, which accounts for nora’s inability to recognize her old friend. although nora seems sympathetic to mrs. linde’s plight, she can’t seem to control herself from boasting about her three children, her husband’s recent promotion, and how good she feels to finally have some money to spend. in a way, she seems to be flaunting her good fortune in front of mrs. linde who, deprived of all these benefits, has come to ask nora for . it is also through her interactions with mrs. linde that we realize something deeper lies under nora’s seemingly childish exterior. she reveals the secret of her forgery to mrs. linde and seems to see herself as quite resourceful for having done it.

in the company of dr. rank, nora is freer than she is with her own husband. she openly laughs with joy at knowing that all the other bank employees will be under her husband’s control. she offers dr. rank a macaroon, apparently forgetting that he knows she is forbidden to eat them. she then quickly covers for herself by claiming that mrs. linde brought them. nora seems much more assertive and free with these other characters, as well as unabashedly willing to scheme, lie, and justify her transgressions as altruistic.  

krogstad provides an interesting parallel to nora. like nora, he too is guilty of committing forgery, for which torvald condemns him and decides to fire him. although krogstad is a man and nora a woman, their crimes of forgery unite them. in fact, krogstad might represent what nora would be like if she were a man and were not strictly scrupulous like her husband is. for example, she tells mrs. linde that "a barrister's profession is such an uncertain thing, especially if he won't undertake unsavoury cases; and naturally torvald has never been willing to do that." perhaps nora would have delved into the unsavory, given how opposite she is to her husband. krogstad's is also the only harsh voice of reality that nora is forced to hear, and that is because he blackmails her for her regaining his job at the bank. finally, torvald’s reaction to krogstad’s forgery seems to foreshadow his harsh and cold reaction to nora’s forgery.