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FREE READING JOURNAL

Answer the questions below about what you read  this week outside of class (NOT about required reading for any class).

1. What did you read, and where did it come from (what is the name of the newspaper or magazine)?   How much time did you spend reading each piece?
 
 
 
 
 

2.  How long was each piece? (How much did you read--how many pages or how many paragraphs?)
 
 
 
 
 

3.  Choose one piece and tell what it was about.  (Write 2-3 sentences.)
 
 
 
 
 

4.  What did you learn from it? (Give  information/ideas AND new vocabulary.)
 
 
 

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new vocabulary:
 
 
 
 

5. What is your opinion about it, and why?  (Did you like or dislike it?  Did you agree or disagree with it?  Give reasons or explain.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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