Estimated Time: 6-8 hours

Read:

• Chapters 1-11

Write:

• As you are reading, write down any sentences or paragraphs that you find shocking, profound or that you just like or in your journal. Choose at least one passage from each chapter.
• Pay attention to any words or phrases that you don't understand and write them in your journal. Look up the meanings of these words.

Learn:

• Learn about personification using the link below. Add the definition to your notebook and look for examples while reading this week.

• Learn about allegory.

• The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is an allegory and it is very important in this story. As you are reading Little Women this month consider the connection between the two books.