At the Saturday, September 6 tournament, Chase's team lost both games. He and Daddy went to 5 o'clock Mass, and then they all went to Songs for Soldiers. All of Chase's crew, except for Joey were there. Mama says the boys hung out at the parking lot and probably didn't pay much attention to the music. On Sunday, Nanaw went for a brief visit to Chase. He wanted to finish his AR book so he could take the test. He had told Nanaw that he had a new way of reading. Rather than reading each word, he was reading down the center of the page, one whole line at a time. Nanaw told him that was called speed reading and that she'd taken a course on it in downtown St. Louis with her boss when she was at A.G. Edwards. She told him that the problem with it is that sometimes you don't retain what you've read. And that's what happened to Chase. He took the test on the book on Monday and only got four questions right. That means he didn't pass the test and didn't get any points, after spending all that time reading a 400 page book. So Daddy took his new phone away from him for a week, plus the computer at Nanaw's house. So everybody talked to Chase and told him no more speed reading; read each work carefully. Plus no more difficult 400 page books -- read the shorter, less adult books.
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