Read the excerpt from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Unable to sleep, I resigned myself to await his return by counting states. Miss Crocker had had a big thing about states, and I sometimes found that if I pretended that she was naming them off I could fall asleep. I decided to count the states geographically rather than alphabetically; that was more of a challenge.

How best could a reader make a text-to-self connection for this excerpt?

by asking one’s sibling what it is like to have trouble falling asleep

Explanation:

Text-to-self connections refers to the personal connections which a reader makes between a piece of reading material and the personal experience of the reader.

Since in the excerpt, the person couldn't sleep, then the reader can make a text-to-self connection for this excerpt by asking one’s sibling what it is like to have trouble falling asleep.

i would say that these are the two thesis statements best for a literary analysis essay on recurring themes in shakespeare's romeo and juliet:

1.  in romeo and juliet, shakespeare demonstrates that love comes in a variety of forms, be it romantic, familial, or between friends.

2.  shakespeare explores the struggle for identity through the character of juliet in his play romeo and juliet.

the other theses aren't reoccurring in this play. 

explanation: