Read pages 48-59 silently. Then read it aloud to yourself and listen to your voice. When you read aloud, make your voice sound like the character who is speaking.

Then answer these questions in your Q & A Section:
(use complete sentences)

1. Mayor Blunt and his Chief of Staff Farley are having a discussion. how are they talking and what time of day is it?

2. Why would the press want to speak to the Mayor?

3. What will the Mayor tell them?

48-59

1. Why were the animals preparing?

2. Alphabetize the following preparations that the animals were making:
Warning calls to neighbors
gathering their young
stockpiling food
burrowing
making for shelter

3. Khalia Koo was missing the kittens. Where were they?

4. When the rat farm workers missed the kittens they returned to their bad habits. Alphabetize the following adjectives:
foul
sullen
bad-tempered
mean
dirty
hungry
lazy

5. What was the frightening roar?

6. Khalia Koo saw blue flowers. What were they really?

7. What do you think made the machine stop?

8. Put the following in order:
Shredder visits the Shelter.
Cat workers were moody.
Mayor Blunt will announce his new exit ramp plan.
The bulldozer flattens Khalia Koo's rat farm.
Forest animals prepare for a storm.
The bulldozer broke down.
Khalia Koo laid off her rat farm workers.