Name__________________ Fourth Six Weeks



Name__________________ Sixth Six Weeks

Tuck Everlasting

By Natalie Babbitt

In Tuck Everlasting, Winnie is an over-protected young lady who befriends the Tuck family. Winnie soon discovers that the Tucks have a unique family secret. The novel is the unraveling of the secret and the way the Tucks deal with this situation.

Time Frame

3.5—Students are given the outline, with thoughts, and questions over different sections of the novel as the novel is begun. The Tic-Tac-Toe Menu is part of the unit of study. The options may be worked on throughout the reading of the novel and at the culmination of the novel. Students will check the boxes of activities they are most interested in completing. Each student needs to complete a column, row or diagonal. Students will turn in a proposal form to the teacher with time frame for each activity.

|Chapters: |Assignment: |Due Date: |

|Ch. 1-8 |Read “Tuck Everlasting” Chapters 1-8 |4/30/12 Monday |

|Ch. 1-8 |Create Your Own Characterization T-Chart in your spiral (Character Name, Physical |04/30/12 Monday |

| |Appearance, Personality Traits) | |

|Ch. 1-8 |Exam (Containing characterization matching and chapters 1-8 response questions.) |05/01/12 Tuesday |

|Ch.1-8 |“Point of View of the Tucks” Worksheet |5/3/12 Thursday |

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|Ch. 9-20 |Read “Tuck Everlasting” Chapters 9-20 |05/08/12 Tuesday |

|Ch. 9-20 | “Cause & Effect” Worksheet |05/08/12 Tuesday |

|Ch. 9-20 |Exam Chapters 9-20 Response Questions & |05/09/12 Wednesday |

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|Ch. 21-26 & Epilogue |Read “Tuck Everlasting” Chapters 21-26 & Epilogue |05/11/12 Friday |

|Ch. 21-26 |Exam (Mood Map & Response Questions Ch. 21-26 & Epilogue) |05/14/12 Monday |

|All/Misc. Chapters |“Tuck Everlasting” Tic Tac Toe Project |05/18/12 Friday |

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Tuck Everlasting Tic-Tac-Toe Menu

| Write a Letter | Design a Cover | Proposition & |

| | |Support |

|Write a 1 page letter. |After reading Tuck Everlasting, design your own|Write a position paper. |

|Natalie Babbitt provides an epilogue to the |book cover for the novel. |Choose your side—drink or not: The decision is |

|novel so we know what Winnie decided. Write a |Include: |yours! (Take a position and support it with |

|letter to the Tucks from Winnie about her |Front flap information |text evidence and your own opinion) |

|thoughts and experiences. Have her explain how |Back of the book blurb with quote from the | |

|the Tucks changed her and tell about what |novel | |

|happened in her later life. |About the author | |

| Write a Poem | Venn Diagram | Write a Play |

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|Be sure to include poetic devices such as: |Create a Venn diagram to compare and contrast |Choose the most important part of the book in |

|Alliteration |the two families: Winnie’s and the |your opinion and rewrite it as a play with a |

|Onomatopoeia |Tuck’s,(description of the houses and way of |few of your classmates. Perform this scene for |

|Similes |life). Write a paragraph explaining which |your classmates. |

|Metaphors |Winnie likes best—support your answer with text| |

|Repetition |evidence. | |

|personification | | |

| Write a News- | Drawings | Plot Map |

|paper Article | | |

|Create the front page of the Treegap Daily |An image is something that you can perceive |Complete a plot map on Tuck Everlasting. |

|newspaper with the headline: Woman Breaks Out |with one or more of the senses: sight, hearing,| |

|Of Jail. Write the lead story (Who, What, When,|smell, taste, or touch. Natalie Babbitt uses | |

|Where) and have an interview with the constable|many images to enrich her writing. Draw a | |

|about what he thinks. |picture of two images that the author describes| |

| |well enough for you to visualize. | |

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Tuck Everlasting Tic-Tac-Toe Rubrics

| Write a letter | Design a cover | Proposition and |

| | |Support |

|__correct format |Front: |__takes a strong position |

|__thoughts and |__title and author |__uses 3 well-supported |

|experiences |__creative with color |reasons |

|__how Tucks changed her |__picture is accurate |__uses 1 direct quote |

|__What happened in later |Front Flap: summary |from the novel with |

|life |Back: |page number |

|__paragraphed |__gives interesting reason |__legible |

|__grammatically correct |to read |__grammatically correct |

|__legible |__uses great quote | |

| |Back Flap: | |

| |__about the author | |

| Write a Poem | Venn Diagram | Write a Play |

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|___Title/author |__all statements supported |__demonstrates conflict, |

|___Relevant to novel |by text |character, setting |

|___In lines: |__wording placed correctly |__information is accurate |

|numbered/stanzas |in graphic |__good selection of |

|___3 literary devices |__five or more entries |dialogue |

|(5 senses, similes, |__legible |__stage directions (italics |

|metaphors, |__parallel |for setting, actions) |

|onomatopoeia, |__In the paragraph— |__narrator moves |

|personification, |indented and |action/explains what is |

|alliteration, rhyme, |grammatically correct |happening |

|hyperbole) | |__legible |

| | |__grammatically correct |

| Write a | Drawings | Plot Map |

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|Newspaper article |__reliable from text |___Character/setting |

| |__colorful |___Have all parts of the |

|__Headline/byline |__2 drawings |Plot Map |

|__answer questions who, |__add meaning to text |___5 Rising action points |

|what, when, where, |__captioned |____5 falling action points |

|why, how |__neat and legible |(resolution/conclusion) |

|__paragraphed | |___Dénouement |

|__grammatically correct | | |

|__legible | | |

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Before You Read

Prologue and Chapters 1-8

Focus Activity:

If you had a chance to stay young forever, would you take it? Why or why not?

Think-Pair-Share:

With a partner, list possible advantages and disadvantages of never growing any older.

Setting a Purpose:

Read to find out how a mysterious family stays young.

Background:

The time of year is an important feature of the setting in Tuck Everlasting. The prologue, or introduction, to the novel states that the month is August, and the first paragraph opens with a striking summer image. The author describes a Ferris wheel pausing in its turning, with the top seat hanging in the stillness. This image helps to set the mood, or feeling, of the particular August when the novel takes place. Notice that the author describes the first week of August as “motionless, and hot” and August as “the top of the year.” Her description suggests that the year is a turning point. The opening image also hints that the main character may be at a turning point in her life.

Vocabulary preview:

axis [ak’ sis] n. straight line around which something rotates.

contemplation [kno’t m pla’ sh n] n process of thinking something through

disheartened [dis hart’ nd] adj. discouraged

implore [im plor’] v. to beg

primly [prim’ le] adv. stiffly, daintily

recede [ri sed’] v. to move backward; to withdraw

rueful [roo’ f l] adj. sad

venture [ven’ ch r] n. bold or risky act

pro- prefix before in time or place

-less suffix without

dis- prefix opposite or lack of

-ly suffix in a particular manner, like

pre- prefix before

Tuck Everlasting Characterization chart

|Character |Physical Description |Personality Traits |

|Mae Tuck |A great potato of a woman with round, sensible face, calm |Kind, loving, flexible, understanding, protective, |

| |brown eyes. Wore three petticoats, a rusty brown skirt, with|practical |

| |one enormous pocket, an old cotton jacket, a knitted shawl | |

| |pinned with a tarnished brooch, gray-brown hair in a bun. | |

| |Always carries a music box. | |

|Jesse Tuck |Beautiful, seventeen, thin, sunburned, curly brown hair, |Self-assured, selfish, |

| |battered trousers, loose grubby shirt, shoeless, decorative | |

| |green suspenders | |

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|Miles Tuck |Handsome, older than Jesse, 22 years old |Fatherly (wife left him & took the kids when she |

| | |realized he never aged) |

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|Winnie Foster |Wore boots and stockings. Ten years old |bored and lonely, tired of family’s |

| | |over-protectiveness, fearful of the unknown, curious|

| | |and watchful, imaginative, perceptive |

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|Angus Tuck |Melancholy creases in his face, almost never smiled except |Depressed, fatherly, persuasive, philosophical, |

| |in his sleep |dreams of dying and going to heaven |

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|Grandmother |(Winnie’s Grandmother) Wears skirts |Over-protective, rude, strong-willed, bossy, proper |

| | |in speech, believes in fairies |

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|The Stranger |Stranger, tall and narrow, long chin faded into an |Suspicious, sneaky, liar, greedy, self-centered, |

| |apologetic beard. Yellow suit and black hat. |seems polite but only to get what he wants |

|Constable |Fat, sleepy, and wheezes as he breathes, too out of shape to|Sour mood, explodes easily, irritated at being |

| |ride quickly, smokes a cigar |roused in the night |

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Point of View of the Tucks:

The Tucks have different points of view(perspectives) about living forever. Use the chart to note their attitudes about what has happened in their lives since they drank from the spring. In the second column, summarize in a few words their feelings about living forever.

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Before You Read

Chapters 9-20

Focus Activity: What changes in life do you look forward to as you think about growing older?

Think-Pair-Share: Discuss what your life will be like at 16, 18, 21? When you are older still? What joys and pains might come with each stage of life?

Setting a Purpose: Read to find out what Angus Tuck has to say to Winnie about living and growing.

Background: The plot of a story is more than just a series of events, one after another. In any plot, one event leads to another, following a pattern of cause and effect. In the first section (Prologue through Chapter 8), Winnie hears strange music coming from the woods. This event leads her to enter the woods because she is curious about the source of the music. Thinking about cause and effect can help you understand characters’ motives, or reasons for doing what they do. As you read chapters 9-20, notice how one event leads to another, and think about why each character behaves he he or she does.

Vocabulary Preview:

anguish [ang’ gwish] n. extreme pain or sorrow

fragrant [fra’ grant] adj. sweet-smelling

helter-skelter [hel’ ter skel’ ter] adj. without order, messy

immense [i mens’ ] very large

melancholy [mel’ n kol’ e] adj. depressed

pickle [pik’ l] n. difficult situation

rave [rav] v. to talk wildly

teeming [tem’ing] adj. filled to overflowing

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Cause and Effect

Tuck Everlasting Chapters 9-20

Winnie has mixed feelings about her experiences with the Tucks. Each of these feelings is an effect caused by a particular event. Use the chart to record her responses to the events that happen while she is with the Tucks.

Cause Effect on Winnie

Before You Read Chapters 21-26 and Epilogue

Share ideas: In small groups, discuss how young people act differently from their elders.

Setting a Purpose: Read to find out how Winnie changes as a result of her experiences with the Tucks.

Background: Tuck Everlasting ends with an epilogue, which follows the final chapter. An epilogue is a concluding statement or section added to a novel or play. Epilogues sum up the main action of the story. It may also provide information about what happened later to one of the characters, as it does in this novel.

Vocabulary Preview:

accomplice [ a kom’ plis] n. assistant to a crime

arc [ark] n. curved path

ebb [eb] v. to decrease in force or level

impulse [im’ puls] n. sudden act

indefinitely [in def’ nit le] adv. for an unlimited time

ponderous [pon’ d r s] adj. of great weight

pry [pri] v. to pull by using a lever

profoundly [pr found ‘le] adv. deeply

soothing [soo’ thing] adj. comforting

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The Tucks take Winnie home to meet Angus.

Feels happy to be welcomed

Winnie eats supper with the Tucks.

On the pond, Angus talks to Winnie about the wheel of life.

Tuck and Mae talk to Winnie as she falls asleep.

Jesse suggests that Winnie drink the spring water when she is seventeen.

Miles takes Winnie fishing on the pond.

Mae hits the stranger and the constable arrests her.

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