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Silent Reading Record

Read for 30 minutes and then stop and complete the following:

1. What did you read? (Include title and page numbers.)

I read Little Women. My starting page was 13 and my ending page was 22.

2. In four or more sentences summarize what you read.

The four girls awoke on Christmas morning to find sweet little books left under their pillows from their mother, and these books tell the girls how to be good woman. Each girl decides to read a little of their book each morning when they first wake up. After they all read, they all go downstairs for breakfast and to wait for their mother to come home so that they can give her their gifts. When the mother gets home she tells the girls of a poor starving family that they should donate their breakfast to. The girls happily give up their big breakfast to help the other family. Later in the day after they have a wonderful dinner the girls throw a play in the upstairs of their home. After the play they go downstairs to find that the older man who lived next door left them sweets to say Merry Christmas.

3. As you were reading, what were you thinking? Write at least four sentences. Did you make any connections? What were you wondering? What opinions do you have about what you read?

I was thinking about the life back when this book was written and what it was like to be poorer than most. I wonder if I would be willing to give up my food so that another family could eat. I also wonder why more people can't be as good as this family. We are not taught these kind of ideals now. I read a lot of books about women finding their own way.