Conflict happening between the character and someone else.
What is external conflict?
Connections between your life and what you are reading.
What are Text-to-Self connections?
What is Text-to-Self?
Conflict happening inside the character.
What is internal conflict?
Connections between what you are reading and something else you know (from a TV show, movie, etc.).
What are Text-to-World connections?
The two types of character conflicts you can connect to.
What is external and internal conflict?
An event that causes the character to struggle.
What is external conflict?
Connections between what you are reading and something else you have read?
What are Text-to-Text connections?
This character's struggle with their friends reminds me of when I have fought with my friends.
What is a Text-to-Self connection?
The character's emotional struggle (something they are feeling).
What is internal conflict?
This character looks just like my older brother.
What is a Text-to-Self Connection?
How does this character's feelings of not being good enough similar/different to my own life?
What is a type of Text-to-Self question?
The character doesn't make the basketball team. This results in them feeling like they are not good enough.
What is external and internal conflict?
This character's actions remind me of something a character did from this other book I read.
What is a Text-to-Text Connection?
Helps you understand your main character better.
Why is making connections to the character's conflict important?