Tuck Everlasting By Natalie Babbitt

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2 Grade 7 1 st Semester Tuck Everlasting By Natalie Babbitt New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, In Treegap in 1880, ten-year-old Winnie Foster wants to run away to escape her overprotective mother and grandmother. She ventures into the woods by her house one day and runs into Jesse Tuck, who is drinking water from a spring. Jesse refuses to let Winnie drink the spring water and his family kidnaps her to explain why she cannot drink the water. The Tucks reveal that people who drink the spring water will have eternal life. While Winnie spends time with the Tucks, she learns their mixed blessings of living forever. While the Tucks worry about exposing the secret of the spring water to the world, Winnie struggles with deciding whether or not to drink the water.

3 Reading Log: Date: Starting Page: Starting Time: Ending Page: Ending Time:

4 EVERLASTING LIFE? I.D.10: What do you think are some benefits and drawbacks of living forever? List your ideas in complete sentences under the proper heading, pro or con. List at least 5 benefits (pro) and 5 drawbacks (con). Pros of living forever: Cons of living forever:

5 VOCABULARY I.B.2 & I.B.3: Before reading each chapter, please review the vocabulary words by looking up each word in a dictionary and writing the meaning of the word in a COMPLETE SENTENCE.. This activity should be done BEFORE you read each chapter. Chapter 1 Tangent Bovine Oppressive Meager Forlorn Gallows Chapter 2 Melancholy Rueful

6 Chapter 3 Exasperated Chapter 4 Selfdeprecation Marionette Chapter 5 Galling Irrelevantly Chapter 6 Implored Chapter 8 Parson Elated Chapter 9 Hoarding

7 Chapter 10 Indomitable Camphor Chapter 15 Constable Chapter 16 Cantering Chapter 17 Peril Chapter 19 Petulance Chapter 21 Acrid Chapter 24 Exultant Chapter 25 Staunchly

8 I.D.10 MAKING PREDICTIONS Before you read each of the following chapters, predict what you think is going to happen next in the story. Be sure to make these predictions BEFORE you begin reading the Chapter. Write your predictions in complete sentences in the lines provided below. Prediction before Chapter 6 of what will happen now Prediction before Chapter 9 of what will happen now: Prediction before Chapter 14 of what will happen now: Prediction before Chapter 19 of what will happen now

9 Prediction before Chapter 24 of what will happen now: Prediction before the Epilogue of how it will end:

10 CHAPTER TITLES: I.C.4 AFTER you read each chapter, create a title for the chapter by writing on the line beside the number below what title summarizes the chapter. Chapter 1: Chapter 2: Chapter 3: Chapter 4: Chapter 5: Chapter 6: Chapter 7: Chapter 8: Chapter 9: Chapter 10: Chapter 11: Chapter 12: Chapter 13: Chapter 14: Chapter 15: Chapter 16: Chapter 17: Chapter 18: Chapter 19: Chapter 20: Chapter 21: Chapter 22: Chapter 23: Chapter 24:

11 Chapter 25: I.D.5 Figures of Speech: The author uses many different figures of speech. There are many examples of similies, metaphors, and personification throughout the book. While you are reading, find at least three examples of each and record them below examples are provided for you. PAGE SIMILE 29 I m about as dry as dust. PAGE METAPHOR 122 The big glass windows here were lidded eyes PAGE PERSONIFICATION 52 Streaks of light swam and danced

12 ICI The Tuck family has mixed feelings about living forever. While you read, write down in complete sentences the feelings and attitudes of each character has about living forever. Tuck family member From the book, note each person s feelings and attitudes about living forever Angus Tuck Mae Tuck Miles Tuck Jesse Tuck

13 How does Winnie React? I.D.3 & I.D.4 While you are reading, write in complete sentences the reaction that Winnie has to each of the following events that occur in the book. Event: The Tucks take Winnie home to meet Angus. Winnie s Response or Reaction: Event: Winnie eats supper with the Tucks at their home. Winnie s Response or Reaction: Event: On the pond, Angus talks to Winnie about the wheel of life. Winnie s Response or Reaction:

14 Event: Angus and Mae talk to Winnie as she falls asleep. Winnie s Response or Reaction: Event:Jesse suggests that Winnie drink the spring water when she is seventeen. Winnie s Response or Reaction: Event: Miles takes Winnie fishing on the pond. Winnie s Response or Reaction:

15 Event: Mae hits the stranger and the constable arrests her. Winnie s Response or Reaction:

16 Response Journal: I.D.10 After reading, please respond to each question or quote in complete sentences. Question or Quote from Tuck Everlasting Your personal response to the Question or Quote from Tuck Everlasting What is a prologue and what purpose does it serve? Why not simply begin the story with Chapter 1? Why do you think it could be a disaster if people discovered the spring? (Chapter 1) If you had to remain one age forever, what age would you choose and why? (Chapter 7)

17 Mae is not certain whether the effects of the spring water on her family are a blessing or a curse. What do you think and why? (Chapter 10) Everything s a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. The frogs is part of it, and the bugs, and the fish, and the wood thrush, too. And people. But never the same ones. Always coming in new, always growing and changing, and always moving on. That s the way it s suppose to be. That s the way it is. (Chapter 12, page 62) Why do you think the author never gives the man in the yellow suit a name? What does the man in the yellow suit represent? (Chapter 19) Do you think Mae did the right thing to protect Winnie from the man in the yellow suit? Do you think she is a criminal? Why or why not? (Chapter 21)

18 Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. (Chapter 24, page 123) Many years pass before the Tucks return totreegap. What is the evidence that time has passed? (Epilogue) Do you think Winnie made the right choice? Explain your thoughts. (Epilogue)

19 A PICTURE OF TREEGAP IN 1880 AND IN 1950! I.D.10 Based on the descriptions in the book, draw two pictures of Treegap. The first picture you draw will show Treegap in the beginning of the story. The second picture you draw will show Treegap when the Tucks return years later. Use your imagination and draw what you visualized in your mind (Winnie s house, the woods, the prison, new developments ) as you read the book. Treegap in 1880

20 Treegap in 1950

21 I.D.10 Now that you have finished reading the novel Tuck Everlasting choose from below one of the writing prompts. Write your response in complete sentences and in paragraph form. Be creative and use your imagination! Writing Prompt One: The Tucks never find out what happens to Winnie after they free Mae from jail. Pretend that you are Winnie and write a letter to the Tucks. You tell them what your life has been like since you last saw them and how meeting them changed your life, and tell them why you chose not to drink the spring water. Writing Prompt Two: The story ends with the Tucks coming back to Treegap to find out that Winnie passed away two years earlier and did not drink the spring water. What is another way that the story could have ended? How did you want the story to end? Rewrite the Epilogue of Tuck Everlasting so that the ending is different. Will Winnie drink the spring water? Will Winnie and the Tucks be reunited?