https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs Make a connection: text-to-text, text-to-world, or text-to-self. en-us 2017-09-22 11:26:46 UTC 2017-09-22 13:13:14 UTC hello@padlet.com PyroarRanger https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101018 I finished the book "A Dog's Purpose" while I was reading "White Fang" and I made a connection from the abridged version of "White Fang" (what I read already) and both stories end up somewhere on a farm. I can't quite remember which farm, but I do remember White Fang ends up in a city eventually, then goes to the country. The dog in  "A Dog's Purpose" visits the countryside, so in both novels, a canine ends up somewhere in the country at some point in the book]]> 2017-09-22 12:51:36 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101018 3128209 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101174 I am making a text-to-text connection from the book "The Martian" to the number of star wars books that are out there. This book makes me think of star wars because they are both placed on another planet. In this book a man is trapped on Mars on a mission gone horribly wrong. In star wars, there are tons of planets and stars that people travel to on missions. Sometimes they get stuck on those planets for days as well, and they have to try and communicate with their home world to get rescued, sort of like how this man in "The Martian" is about to travel 3200 kilometers to try and contact Earth to get rescued. These two stories are somewhat alike in this way.]]> 2017-09-22 12:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101174 3128892 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101227 Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel written by Eric Blair under the pen name of George Orwell about what he thinks the world would have been like in 1984. There are very clear metaphors to real world people, like the commanding figure of Big Brother to Joseph Stalin. I have only gotten a few pages into this book, but the frequent propaganda, the Thought Police and their constant surveillance and control over the populous, the deadly convictions and executions of The State, and the militarized cities reminds me of North Korea, and the Soviet Union in the past. In the book, they make Big Brother up to be a grandiose, larger than life figure that will protect The State, while also using the propaganda to induce rage in the public for Goldstien, the scapegoat traitor of The State and The Party. The severe punishments and policing of the public also reminds me of North Korea. The cities are very militarized and rundown, especially around the Ministry of Love, with machine guns, guards, and barbed wire. Everywhere in the city there are telescreens which play propaganda while simultaneously watching and listening on the other side, and with the lack of clear law, the people don't know what they can be persecuted for.]]> 2017-09-22 12:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101227 3130203 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101331 In the book School of Fear, I can relate from the text to world that everyone has a fear and more specifically many people have bigger phobias. And everyone in the text is afraid of at least one thing and I would also consider it as a text to self because I relate to the character Madeleine because we both have a fear of insects. Also, it is really cool and weird how these phobias are existing in our world today like Phasmophobia; the fear of ghosts and how there are places in the world that are helping people with getting over their fears which is pretty cool because a fictional book plot is actually happening in our lives right now which is wicked cool.]]> 2017-09-22 12:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101331 3127051 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101340 While reading this book I made a text-to-world connection. In both the book and the real world it seems like everybody has their own secret that they are trying to keep from the rest of the world. In both the real world and the book world there are people coming from other countries to the United States. In the real world there are people having financial issues and also in the book. I like how the other took these real world things and put them in the book because it makes it feel more real.]]> 2017-09-22 12:52:18 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101340 3130167 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101365 Before reading Divergent, I completed the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Katniss Everdeen lives in a world where everyone is split up into districts, hers being the lowly District 12. She is forced to leave her family and fight for herself against people much stronger than her. In Divergent, Beatrice's world is split up into 4 factions, hers being the plain and hated Abnegation, or selfless. She joins another faction, Dauntless(brave), and fights against teenagers her age for survival . That is why Divergent and the Hunger Games have a text to text relationship.]]> 2017-09-22 12:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101365 3129992 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101419 I just read about Buck, the dog and main charator, being beat senselessly by people on a train for reasons not yet revealed, but this sort of relates to me because my first time on a train, we were going to Boston and I was 4 years old, and I fell asleep and dreamt of wolves and dogs on the train, and at first it was fine, but then they started biting me and I couldn't fend them off. The reason "I" remember this is because my mom noticed my restless sleep and woke me up and talked to me abiout my dream, so she has told me about this.]]> 2017-09-22 12:52:29 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101419 3130172 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101456 While reading a connection that I made from the book was that Apollo and his friends that are going on this journey with.They want to stay at the Waystation because it is safer. I have had this happen to me when a friend has to move. I guess that I would be Apollo's friends and my friend would be Apollo because they are both moving on. This connection would be a text to self connection.]]> 2017-09-22 12:52:34 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101456 3128538 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101473 I made a text to world connection because this book reminds me of the American Revolution. There is a Civil war going on where one part of an Empire is rebelling against the rest, and there are huge battles going on. It also reminds me somewhat of the Civil War because of the same reasons]]> 2017-09-22 12:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101473 3131020 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101485 By, John Grisham
I can relate this book to my own life because, Theo is very curious. He loves government, like I do, and whenever he sees something suspicious he wants to figure it out. In this book Theo finds a fugitive he recognizes from a trial in his home town now long ago, he takes a video of him and he now is trying to bring him back to court. This is something that even I might have done in this situation.]]> 2017-09-22 12:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101485 3099008 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101502 I can make a text to text connection with my book. The book I can connect to is Eagle Strike. In the book Eagle Strike there is a rich businessman who acted good but was really bad at the end. In my book there is a rich businessman who is acting suspicious and might be up to something. Also I connected my book to the world because there are these terrorist attacks happening in Europe. A terrorist group in my book is called Force Three and they are killing innocent people for a fake reason that they want to protect the planet. ]]> 2017-09-22 12:52:41 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101502 3129730 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101510 I feel like this book makes a text to world connection. In this book the whole point and action happening is Ivan (a gorilla) is trying to get Ruby (an elephant) and the rest of the circus to a zoo from the dirty and small domain they are in right now. But doing this is really hard for a gorilla, and he has to find the creative way out with a little bit of help. I connected this to the world because sometimes people are stuck in a  bad or "small" place and its hard to get out, but its possible. You just have to find your passion and the right people to help you.]]> 2017-09-22 12:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101510 4000706 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101513 This book is about an alien invasion, and the protagonist thinks no one except her is alive. This book is like WWII because the war started with Hitler's invasion of Poland and in the book, the aliens invaded Earth. Another connection is that Hitler's army killed anyone, and the aliens killed everyone. ]]> 2017-09-22 12:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101513 3116806 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101516 The obvious thing to relate this to is some sort of murder mystery that you see on television but I found a certain detail that I liked in the book. This book reminds me a lot of Paper Towns, a book by John Green. In Paper Towns, the most important thing is the clues that the girl leaves behind for the boy. This is the same way. In the book, Dalton Rev is always finding new clues about Wesley's murder and is putting them together to find out what they mean. This is why my connection is a text to text connection to John Green's Paper Towns]]> 2017-09-22 12:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101516 3130098 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101517 I see a text-to-world connection with this book mostly because there is a lot of cyber terrorism and stuff like that. One reason I noticed that is that on the news today, I saw a story on how some companies are spending more time checking all of the advertisements and such on their websites for who actually paid for them. Another reason that I saw text-to-world is that there are so many new innovations and inventions that remind me of all the cool new technology that has come out in the past years.]]> 2017-09-22 12:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101517 3129991 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101588 This book takes place in the future and I can connect it with text to self. One of my favorite shows on Netflix to watch is Grey's Anatomy and while I was watching I realized that most of the suspense in the show is built on needing an organ and a patient not getting it in time. Unwinding is where a child is chosen to get sent to a center to get taken apart and all of the child's body parts go to someone who needs them. So, I feel like unwinding and the plot of grey's anatomy (donors) are very similar things, though donors are already dead usually, unless they are giving blood, and so it is not necessary to kill people to get organs.]]> 2017-09-22 12:52:51 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101588 4003157 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101598 In this book, I can make a text to self connection, because a boy named Jacob finds many old photographs of strange people doing incredible things. He didn't know who they were, nor why his grandfather had them. When I was little, I would look through tons of old photos that I found in boxes, and I would be fascinated, because I did not know any of the people in the photos, but now I do, just like the boy, Jacob. ]]> 2017-09-22 12:52:53 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101598 3128618 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101599 In this book, Tobias has to make a tough choice on which faction to choose. He can choose what his father chose, a dull, day-to-day life with the Abnegation faction, or choose a different faction that might make his life more enjoyable. This reminds me of a similar decision I made in 2nd Grade to come to Greenfield for CBG, or stay at my home school of Bettie Weaver. I chose Greenfield, and I don´t regret it at all. I met many new friends and had great teachers.I think that Tobias will make a similar decision and choose an interesting faction to break up his usual routine.]]> 2017-09-22 12:52:53 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101599 3129077 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101631 I made a text to text connection with this book and the book I read for my summer reading autobiography, "I Will Always Write Back". I made this connection because in both of the books, the main character is living in terrible poverty, with little food to eat, not much shelter, and war in their country. Also, in both books, the main character, along with their families, are debating wether or not to leave their home countries, and flee to a safer place.]]> 2017-09-22 12:52:55 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101631 3117452 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101677 The book Hatchet reminds me of the Maximum Ride books because in both books, young teenagers have to survive in the wild with no help from adults. In Maximum Ride, they have to run from bad guys and survive an apocalypse, whereas in Hatchet, Brian has to survive in the wild because his plane crashed. They both hunt, find shelter, and do anything that they can to survive. The difference between these two books is that in Maximum ride, she has her "flock," which is kinda like her family. ]]> 2017-09-22 12:53:01 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101677 3128080 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101722 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a story about a young girl named Francie Nolan, who lives in poverty with her immigrant parents. Francie's father, Johnny Nolan, is always making bad decisions for his family, but when he was young, he was lovable and intelligent. Around that time, Johnny's brother Andy got "consumption", at was on his deathbed at a very young age. When he was sick, the whole Nolan family grieved and prayed for his recovery. This chapter reminded me of when Beth March got scarlet fever in Little Women. Like Andy, Beth was the heart of the family and the thought of losing her left the family in distress. ]]> 2017-09-22 12:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101722 3127418 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101754 By Rick Riordan
In The Mark of Athena I am at a part where two of the demigods a fighting Narcissus (the guy who fell in love with his reflection) and his fans. The demigods took his mirror of celestial bronze. This reminds me of the real world because so many people are obsessed with the person they think they are from the way that they look they never give themselves a chance to be anything else.]]> 2017-09-22 12:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101754 3153450 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101771 I can relate this book to the books in the Harry Potter Series. I can because the most important characters meet in school and are a triangle of friends, that are trying to defeat the main antagonist.  In Michael Vey, Dr. Hatch (a man trying to take over the world by using the electric kids powers to do it) is the antagonist, and in Harry Potter is Voldemort (the most evil wizard and he is trying to destroy all of the good wizards and witches). This is a text to text connection. ]]> 2017-09-22 12:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101771 3131393 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101905 This book is a fictional story about a sixteen year old girl named Lucie who is working as a spy for the Allies during World War 2. I can make a text to world connection because there really were groups such as the one she works for, and the setting of German occupied Paris is true to how horrible and gruesome many places were during the war.]]> 2017-09-22 12:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101905 3129997 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101953 I can somewhat related this to the Shadow Children series Margaret Peterson Haddix because there are two characters in each book that break out of their controlled lives to save the person that they loved most. In matched it's the person Cassia wants to be able to love, Ky, but the society keeps them apart and in the Shadow Children series its a friend looking for his step-brother. Both are very caring for the people they love and would go very very far distances to help them.]]> 2017-09-22 12:53:33 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190101953 3129964 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190102114 by Joan Bauer

I can make a text to world connection with this book. The main character, Sugar, is suffering through poverty, her mother having depression, and her parents' not so great relationship. A lot of people in the world suffer through these things. Sugar used to be homeless before she went to a foster family while her mom recovered. There are a lot of homeless people in this world and many kids have to go to foster homes. ]]> 2017-09-22 12:53:54 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190102114 3127657 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190102130 A text to word connections is tht in the book two kids are trying to escape N]]> 2017-09-22 12:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190102130 3136127 https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190102704 by Cornelia Funke
I can connect this book to another book. It reminds me of the book:  When you reach me  because both books relate to kids living in areas of cities that were poor and full of trouble.

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My book is about a boy who is forced to take an exam to see what classes he gets in. But the main character who always gets straight A's is not a good test taker, so he misses honors by one point. Out of nowhere a school that has historically low on the test gets the biggest jump in test scores in state history. Then Theo's best friends babysitters sister said that the teachers changed scores, and now Theo is finding out what to do with his information, because it could result in him getting into honors classes and not the intermidiate classes that he was previously placed in. I can make a text to text connection between this and the book Four by Veronica Roth. I say this because in Four people are tested to see where they are in there classes and being higher up in the classes means getting a better job.]]> 2017-09-22 12:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/joanne_stanley/qpcv3x6azjhs/wish/190104847