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. **
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On page 26 when Bud is talking about the vampire bat it says, " I wasn't about to let this vampire suck my blood dry without a war..." I could make a connection to something I read in a National Geographic article. It said that vampire bats rarely bite humans and that they don't actually suck blood. They bite the bigger animal like a cow, horse or possibly human and then they lick the blood up. YUCK!!! I guess my connection could be called text to world because it was information I knew or text to text because it was something I read. (Jamal)

On page 51 Bud is saying "The oatmeal is so delicious! I poured milk on in so it wouldn't be so lumpy and mixed it all together." Every time that I've had oatmeal since I read that part I keep on thinking of Bud. How when you haven't eaten for a long time it must seem even better. I couldn't totally relate to Bud because I wasn't going without meals, but I appreciated my oatmeal more because I would think of him in the morning when I ate mine. This is a text to self connection. (Jamal)

I could make a text-to- text connection between //Bud Not Buddy// and a book I read a book called //Christmas After All//. In both books, the depression is happening and they both describe the Hoovervilles. I already knew what it meant when I read it //Bud Not Buddy// because in //Christmas After All// they pretty much give a definition and they show pictures of the shacks. (Heather)

"I can't talk. I can't walk. I can't feed myself or take myself to the bathroom. Big bummer." pg.3 I can make a text to self connection with this passage from the book because I have a family member who can't walk either. He has a wheelchair but he can roll himself around and talk. He knows what its like to not be unable to do certain things. (Kaitlin)

" 'Here Melody. Daddy bought you a play-pretty.' she cooed in that high-pitched voice that adults use with children." pg.10 I can make another text to self connection because my mom has a high-pitched voice when she talks to children NB-5. I have a 5-year old cusin and when my mom talks to her shes uses a high-pitched voice and it can get a little anoying at times. (Kaitlin)