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QuizMultiple Choice

Reader Connections in We've Got a Job

Question 8 • SHS Alt English 4 S1 - 2021

Read this excerpt from We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March."It was a rare weekend passed," Wash said, "that one or two folk... didn't get killed by the police . . . This is what they'd do to you: They'd call you and make you stick your head in the window [of the police car] . . . and then they would roll the window up . . . And then they'd hit you on your head . . . They'd beat people to death." As a result, he said, parents could scare unruly children into minding them by threatening, "The police gonna get you."If a student compares this excerpt to the cruelty of Nazi leaders, which type of connection is made?

Answer
A
text to self
B
text to person
C
text to text
D
text to world

Explanation

The student is relating the excerpt’s account of police brutality to the cruelty of Nazi leaders, a historical subject outside the text. Connecting a text to real-world events or issues is a text-to-world connection. A text-to-text connection would instead compare this excerpt with another written work.

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