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The Year Of The Panda
By Miriam Schlein
Third graders: This entire packet must be
completed in your best cursive and you must
use complete sentences .
__ Read Chapter 1 & 2 two times
Vocabulary Match!
Match the following vocabulary words to their correct
definition. If you need help, go back to the chapter where
the word appears and/or use a dictionary.
1. swarm (p. 7)
a. small, hard
seed of a plant food
2. rascal (p. 7)
b. shelters for colonies
of bees
3. thresh (p. 6)
c. a body of bees that
leave a hive together
4. hives (p. 7)
d. complain in a low
voice
5. grain (p. 6)
e. sudden and
unexpected
6. mend (p. 12)
f. improve or
make usable by repairing
7. grumble (p. 9)
mischievous person
g. dishonest or
8. abruptly (p. 7)
h. use a machine
to separate the seeds
from a plant.
Answer the following question in complete
sentences and use your best cursive:
1. Why do you think the daxiong mao came down from
the mountain?
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There are many things to think about after
reading the first two chapters.
Think of two
questions that that you have and write them
below.
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___ Read chapters 3 & 4 twice.
Please use your best cursive and answer the
following questions in complete sentences.
1. Chapter 3 opens up with a very powerful lead
sentence.
By the end of the chapter you know
what it is that changed his life.
“connector”.
Be a
Think of an event that happened to
you that changed your life.
Write about why and
how it changed your life.
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2. How did Lu Yi and his father know they needed
to rescue the baby daxiong mao?
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3. Did Lu Yi’s father want to give the daxiong
mao a name?
father?
Do you agree or disagree with his
Why or why not?
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4.
What would you have named the daxiong mao?
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__ Read chapter 5 two times
Vocabulary match!
Match the following vocabulary words to their correct
definition. If you need help, go back to the chapter
where the word appears and/or use a dictionary.
1. disgrace (p. 45)
a.
far away from
b.
a rough or harsh
c.
loss of respect
populated areas
2. isolated (p. 30)
voice
3. famine (p. 35)
4. entangled (p. 43)
d. very small or thin and
weak
5. puny (p. 40)
e. a severe shortage of
food
6. raspy (p. 35)
f. to become
twisted/caught in something
Look at page 31.
notice.
A messenger is tacking up a
Now, it is your turn to design this
notice!
Use the space below and think carefully
about what it should say.
___ Read the first part of chapter 6 twice (p. 47 the bottom of page 60).
Answer the following question in your best cursive and use
complete sentences.
1. On page 53, Lu Yi says, “But what you know in
your brain and what you feel in your heart can be
two very different things.”
Yi means?
What do you think Lu
Can you think of a time when you’ve
experienced this?
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Vocabulary match!
Match the following vocabulary words to their correct
definition. If you need help, go back to the chapter where
the word appears and/or use a dictionary.
1. descend (p. 49)
a. to hang from
2. orphan (p. 52)
language used
b. a variety of
3. tether (p. 48
the air
by a group of
speakers.
c. to float in
4. dialect (p. 57)
has lost both
5. suspend (p. 54)
d. a child who
parents through
death or
other
circumstances.
e. tie with a
chord or a chain
6. hover (p. 49)
f. to come down
___ Read the second part of chapter 6 two times (p.
61-71).
Please answer the following questions in complete
sentences and use your best cursive 
1.
Why were the people at the Rescue Center
growing many varieties of bamboo?
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2. How many daxiong mao are at the Rescue Center?
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3. How was the condition of the panda that Hu Shang
rescued different from Su Lin’s condition?
Why do
you think they were different?
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Be a passage picker!
Look back and find a passage
(or paragraph) that is interesting to you from Ch.
6.
Please write the page number in the packet and
put a post-it in your book to mark it.
We will
share in class.
My passage is on page _________.
___ Read chapter 7 two times.
Vocabulary!
Use the context clues to figure out the meaning of
the underlined word in each of the following
sentences. Circle the answer you choose.
1. Lu Yi heard Mr. Po’s remark about feeding the
daxiong mao.
a. poem
b. speech
c. comment
2. Dr. Di asked Lu Yi for assistance when she
examined Su Lin.
a. help
b. advice
c. towels
3. A cluster of bamboo was growing near the
cookhouse.
a. bunch
b. garden
c. plant
4. Lu Yi approached the daxiong mao’s cage very
carefully.
a. locked up
b. came near c. walked into
5. In desperation, the daxiong mao had moved up the
mountain to find food.
a. groups
b. hunger
c.
hopelessness
6. The Rescue Center received financial help from
the government to pay for its work.
a. legal work
b. money-related c. planes
and houses
Answer the following questions:
1. Why do you think Dr. Di knew that Lu Yi would
like to stay at the Rescue Center?
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2.
Do you think Lu Yi’s parents will let him come
back and work with Dr. Di at the Rescue Center?
If
you were Lu Yi, what would you want to do?
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