By: Natalie Babbitt

Power point created by: Mrs. Ross

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Essential Questions
Keep these questions in the front of your
mind as we read and get to know the
characters of Tuck Everlasting
Essential question #1: Do the choices we make affect others?
Essential question #2: Should you keep a secret even if it means
you have to lie? Is lying ever ok?
Essential question #3: What does it mean to live?

p. 6
on the left stood a square and solid cottage with a touch-me-not appearance
enclosed by a capable iron fence some four feet high which clearly said, Move on-we
dont want you here.
(DOK 1)Lets talk with our table:
Can you recall a time that you have ever been in such a place, what and/or where was it?

P8.
The people would
have noticed the
giant ash tree at
the center of the
wood, and then,
in time, theyd
have noticed the
little spring
bubbling up
among its roots
in spite of the
pebbles piled
there to conceal
itand that would
have been a
disaster so
immense that this
weary old earth,
owned or not to
its fiery core,
would have
trembled on its
axis like a beetle
on a pin.

p.11.
a music box painted with roses and lilies of the valley. It
was the one pretty thing she owned and she never went
anywhere without it

Here is a link you can copy/paste to listen to the music box

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSANXsSuHGU

p.20
The man in the yellow suit was looking for a family. While they are talking they hear the music my starsI
do believe its come again, after all these years!... Its been ages since I heard it last
The man in the yellow suite stiffened and his voice was eager. youve heard that music before you say?
(DOK 2) Lets talk with our table: Interesting question from the man in the yellow suit, why would he ask
Winnies Grandmother if shed heard that music before? What do you think this is all about?
Create a list of possible reasons and refer to it later as you read one of your predictions may just be correct!

p.25
We meet Jesse Tuck
We learn that Winnies 1st impression was?
Choose your answer and
show your neighbor where
you found it.
A: She was afraid that he would
rob her so she hid from him

B: He seemed glorious and she

lost her heart at once

C: He looked just like a normal

boy and she thought he could
help her get away from her home
DOK 1

The Tucks realize that they need to take Winnie with them back to their home.
Why is that?
P.36
Look here, Winnie Foster, said Jesse. Were friends, we really are. But you got to help
us. Come sit down, and well try to tell you why.

(DOK 1) Lets talk with our table: Who besides Winnie and the Tucks knows about the Tucks and their
secret?
Find and prove your answer show your neighbor!

p. 52
she was unprepared for the homely little house beside the ponddishes were stacked
in perilous towersevery surface, every wall,was piled and strewn and hung with
everything imaginablecurly shavings furring the floor and little heaps of splinters and
chips; every surface dim with countless sawdust and sanding

p. 62
Everythings a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. The frog 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. Thats the way its
supposed to be.
Thats the way it is.

(DOK 2) Time To Work! Think about this quote, and what you have
read in the book up to this point. Do you think Angus is glad he is living
forever?

Support your answer with reasons from the text. Locate at least 2
examples, quote them and tell the page and paragraph where they were
found.

Angus Tuck Does Not want to live forever

p. 63
But dyings part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You cant pick out
the pieces you like and leave the restIf I knowed how to climb back on the
wheel, Id do it in a minute. You cant have living without dying.
(DOK 1) Lets
talk with our
table:
Put yourself in
Angus Tucks
shoeswhat are
some things you
feel he is missing
out on in his life?
Try to come up
with at least 4
life events that
he will not get to
be a part of due to
living forever.

(DOK 2)
Time To Work!
Sketch out a
model and write
an explanation
of what the
wheel of life
looks like in your
mind.
Tell why you
think Angus
keeps referring
to life as a
wheel.

p. 66
Ah! Good evening! May I come in? I have happy
news for you. I know where theyve taken the little girl.

What do you think the man in the

yellow suite is up to?
Lets make some predictions! (DOK 2)

Can you link any of these

predictions to ones you wrote
down earlier about the music and
looking for a family?
Time To Work: Make a list of all of
the peculiar events/things the man
in the yellow suit has been a part
of so far.

p. 71-72
you could wait till youre seventeenyou could go and drink some
we could get marriedhave a grand old time Ma and Pa and Miles dont
know how to enjoy it
We can tell that Jesse does or does not see this problem as a gift?

(DOK 3) Lets talk with our

table:
Winnie has seen how Angus
feels and how Jesse feels, she
knows what has happened to
Miles with his family
situation
Survey your classmates for
their thoughts and create a
pros and cons list. After
reading your results what do
you think she will choose and
why?

p. 74
Dreadful thing kidnapping. Isnt it fortunate that I was a witness! Why, without me, you
might never have heard a wordit looks as if Im the only person in the whole world who
knows where to find herNow, I dont have to spell things out for people like yourselves
(DOK 1)Lets talk with our table: What does the man in the yellow suite want? Why? What do you
think the Fosters will do? What do you think they think of this man?
(DOK 2) Lets talk with our table: You will need to partner up and create a skit between Mr. & Mrs.
Foster. What do you think their conversation would go like if they were able to talk in private about
this without the man in the yellow suit hearing? Be prepared to share!

In the first new paragraph on p. 77

the expression proud as peacocks is used.
This is an example of a
simile

What do you think this means?

DOK 1

p.85
Itd be nice, she said, if nothing ever had to die.
Well, now, I dont know, said Miles. If you think on it, you come to
see thered be so many creatures, including people, wed all be
squeezed in right up next to each other before long.

(DOK 1) Lets talk with our table: How does Miles feel about living
forever?
Winnie asked him why he didnt go back and give his family the
water what was Miles answer? Go back and find it in your book
show it to your neighbor!

p.91
However, there wasnt time to wonder, for at the moment someone knocked at the
door.
We know this was the man in the yellow suite but why do you think he came to the
Tucks house?

At this moment lets pause to think what each character might be feeling and/or thinking
when the knock occurs. We know the Fosters are at home, but what would they be
thinking and feeling knowing this stranger is going to get their beloved Winnie.
(DOK 3) Time To Work!: Fold a paper into 8 squares, write each persons name on top
and what they would be thinking/feeling.

p. 97 98
Im going to sell the water you see.Im going to sell it to people who deserve itand
it will be expensive. But who wouldnt give a fortune to live foreverIgnorant people like
you should never have the opportunity it should be kept for certain others and for
me

(DOK 2)Lets talk with our table:

The man in the yellow suite says the
Tucks are ignorant.
What would be your explanation to
the man in the yellow suite to
disprove that?
Knowing what we know now what
are some character traits that we
could list to describe the man in the
yellow suit?

p.104
The gallows? he whispered. Hanging?
The Tucks have some conflicts here on one hand they probably hope the man in the yellow suite dies and
then their secret will die with him, on the other hand, if he does die, Mae goes to the gallows and the towns
people will see that something is wrong with these people If the man in the yellow suite lives he will be
able to tell everyone about the water and the Tucks are still in trouble.
What kind of conflicts are these?

(DOK 3) Lets talk with our table/Time To Work: List the conflicts that are occurring between
other characters? Create a chart to organize your information.
Man vs. Self:
Character(s) experiences some sort of inner conflict
Man vs. Man:
main character(s) are having a problem with another character
Man vs. Nature:
some force of nature is causing a problem for the main character(s)
Man vs. Society:
main character(s) has a problem with a community or some sort of
outside group

p.113- 5th paragraph

What could she do to set Mae free?

Pretend you are Winnie. Imagine you are sitting up in her room at her desk
looking out the window towards the Wood. Using a piece of notebook paper
create a plan to help Mae escape from jail. You can include others in your
escape plan to assist you. This plan may also include sketches/doodles of how it
might look as it is occurring.
Here are some examples of what sketched out might look like you will see
that no two are the same

p.115
At midnight she would make a difference in the world
What do you think this means? Do you think it really is a difference to the
world, how so?
Lets talk about this as a group
Essential question #1: Do the choices we make affect others?
Our topic could be Helping the Tucks and our categories could be
different types of consequences. Sketch/create this out with a partner

Chapter 24 p.
123-126
Winnie helps the
Tucks free Mae!
Rain blew in
her face, but at
the next flash of
lightning, looking
down, she saw
that the yard
was emptyThe
Tucks her
darling Tucks
were gone.
What one single
word did Jesse
whisper to
Winnie?

REMEMBER
What did Jesse
mean by this?

p. 130
They did not understand. And
finally she had sobbed the only
truth there was into her
mothers shoulder, the only
explanation: the Tucks were
her friends. She had done it
because in spite of
everything, she loved them.
Essential question #2:
Should you keep a secret
even if it means you have to
lie? Is lying ever ok?
Lets talk about your thoughts
on this question now that weve
gotten to know the characters of
the story better

Complete before Epilogue

p. 132
But if all of it was true, there was more water in the wood. There was
plenty more. Just in case. When she was seventeen. If she should
decide, there was more water in the wood. Winnie smiled.
So what do you think Winnie will do?
Putting ourselves in Winnies shoes and from what weve learned from the
characters in Tuck Everlasting, lets create a Pros and Cons list for living
forever.
What do you predict Winnie will end up doing?

-OR-

Epilogue
Tuck wiped his eyes hastily. Then he straightened his jacket again and drew up
his hand in a brief salute. Good girl, he said aloud. And then he turned and left
the cemetery
Why was Tuck crying?
Were these happy tears, tears of grief, both what do you think?

Essential question #3
What does it mean to
live?