Connector

**As the Connector, it is your job to find connections between the novel your group is reading and the outside world. Remember the types of connections are text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world. You must label the type of connection, give the example you found in the book along with the page number, and state how you made the connection. M** ** ake at least //two (2)// connections from the book. ** Week 1: I can make a connection of Text-To-Self on pages 42-43, paragraph 5 on page 42 going into page 43. Mibs' party turned out to be the opposite of what she hoped for: huge... One time I wished for a really small party on my fifth birthday, and my entire family came. The party was, and I quote, "A full-on foofaraw." (Kaitlyn)
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I can make another Text-to-Self connection on page 50, paragraph 3, where the people at Mibs' party were all just hoping to see Rocket be there. I've been in that kind of situation before, when I went to a party, and everyone was surrounding the door, waiting for a certain to show up.(Kailtyn)

I can relate to your second connection where at my birthday party people came, but they were hoping to see other people there. The party wasn't really about what the party was for. (Aidan)

I relate to your first connection because i don't like b-day parties and i hope every year there isn't alot of people but there always are. (Daniel)

Week 2

I can make a text to self because when Fish get angry at Will he almost hits but Mids stops him I can relate to that because when my brother gets mad he likes to punch stuff like me for example but i stop him. (Evan)

I can relate to that too. With my older sister. She likes to hit me when she gets mad at me. PS: you need two connections.(Kaitlyn)

I can make text to world sometimes we have weird moments where we think we see someting but we don't like when Mibs saw the tatto on Bobbi;s back moved and talked to her . (Evan)

Text to self i am like fish becasue i would of fought Will not knowing what happend (Bradley)

Text to text I have read like how theres gods for every thing thats what this book reminds me of (Bradley)

Week 3: Text to Self. Fish protected his sister Mibs from being kissed by Will and I would have done the same. I think that he was trying to help Mibs to not be influenced and make her own decisions. Text to Text. Mibs and everyone else are hitch hiking on the bus and I read a story in third grade that was all about a hitch hiker. I'm pretty sure it was called the hitch hiker. The hitch hiker really explained how the hitch hiking man felt so it must be close to how Lill and the kids feel. Text to Self. Samson is always dissapearing in the book and my sister is always dissapearing and later being found in a box sometimes. My sister is always saying she wants alone time so I think Samson thinks that to. (Aidan)

I can connect to the passage on page 334 where it says "Poppa and I were sitting outside on the porch, rocking away on our very own porch swing-the one that Rocket, Fish, Samson, and I had helped Poppa build the previous autumn," The thing I connected to in that passage was the beginning when Mibs and her dad are sitting on the porch. I do that with my dad when I go to his house every 2-3 months. Also on page 342 (the last page in our book) where Mibs said "If only my savvy worked in reverse, I thought again- and not for the last time." I always used to plan something and it would come out totally different, where as I would wish it would have worked in reverse. (Manessa)