Lesson 15: Starry River of the Sky

Find one word from the text that you can’t understand. Write the word. Use context clues to guess the meaning and write your guess down. Check the definition in a dictionary. Put a check next to the definition if you are correct. Fix the definition if you need to add more or change it. Reread the sentence from the book that has the word in it. Write the word in a new sentence.

On page 144, Duke Zhe says that on one visit he found the magistrate “shouting and roaring like a tiger” and that the magistrate’s worry over his missing son has made him into a different person. Think about Rendi’s Magistrate Tiger stories and compare them to what Duke Zhe says here. Why might Duke Zhe think the behavior he saw is not what the magistrate is usually like? Give evidence from the text to support your opinion.