tuck everlasting notebook - 5th grade with mrs....

Tuck EverlastingA Complete Digital Notebook

PrologueSentence Summary: The tone, setting, and characters are beginning to be introduced to us.

Golden Sentence: “These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things, they are sure to be sorry for after.” -Natalie Babbit

Questions I Have: 1. Why does Mae Tuck only see her kids once every ten years? 2. Why is Winnie Foster running away? 3. Who is the stranger?

Prediction I Have: I think Winnie will meet the Tuck family when she runs away.

Comprehension Questions

What does the last sentence in the Prologue mean?

Give me an example of imagery from the story so far. (Something that appeals to our senses.)

What is the tone so far?

What are the three things that took place at the same time, and what is at the center of it all?

Draw a mind map of the events so far.

VocabularyBalmy: warm, humid weather Glaring: bright, blinding Quivers: shaking

Chapter OneSentence Summary: This chapter explains how the wood was hidden and foreshadows important events.

Golden Sentence: “Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you – only when it doesn’t.”

Questions I Have: What is in the woods that people could have done to make a disaster? How will Winnie be involved?

Predictions I Have: I predict that Winnie will venture into the forest. I predict she will meet the Tuck family.


Share an example of foreshadowing.

Explain why people did not go through the wood.

Do you believe in owning land?

Describe the “feel” of the cottage.

Share a simile you found in the reading.

VocabularyTangent: straight line that touches

a curved surface at a point Ambled: walked slowly

Tranquil: peaceful Contemplation: deep thought

Infinite: everlasting Veered: turned in another direction

Abruptly: quickly Meager: small amount

Forlorn: sad, lonely, or missing something or someone Isolation: left all alone

Chapter TwoSentence Summary: This chapter begins the mystery with a conversation between Mae and Tuck.

Golden Sentence: “What in the world could possibly ever happen to me?” - Tuck

Questions I Have: What happened to the Tuck family? Why is Tuck so melancholy?

Predictions I Have: I predict that Mae will come into some kind of trouble when she goes to get the boys.


How was Tuck characterized through speech?

How was Mae characterized through looks and actions?

What can you infer from their conversation?

What are you still curious about?

Why do you think Tuck is so melancholy?

VocabularyMelancholy: thoughtful

sadness Tolerantly: patiently

Beaming: smiling Rueful: regretful

Chapter ThreeSentence Summary: Winnie decides to run away (as she is talking to a toad).

Golden Sentence: “It’d be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that’s not all worn out from being called so much.” - Winnie Foster

Questions I Have: How will Winnie run away? Will she really do it?

Predictions I Have: I predict that Winnie will somehow run away, but she will then have some kind of adventurous trouble.


Why was Winnie’s conversation with the toad important?

Why did Winnie want to run away?

How can you tell she’s frustrated besides her speech to the toad?

Do you think it’d be different if Winnie wasn’t an only child? Why?

Do you have any T-T/T-W/T-S connections?

VocabularyBristly: upset, uptight

personality Cross: angry

Frantic: manic, excited Resentful: to feel bitterness

or anger, a grudge

Chapter FourSentence Summary: We are introduced to the third part of the day where we meet the villain.

Golden Sentence: “For through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them, and all three turned toward it, toward the wood.”

Questions I Have: Who made the music? Why did the grandmother think she’d heard elves?

Predictions I Have: I predict that the stranger at the gate will not do well for Winnie.


What do you think of the music?

Find two examples of the theme: mystery.

How do you feel about the man at the gate?

What did Winnie do wrong according to her grandmother?

Why is it ironic that Winnie hears a music box, but her grandmother assures her it is the elves?

VocabularyJaunty: lively, cheerful

Deprecation: express disapproval Marionette: puppet on strings Retorted: answer back with a

sharp remark, usually with attitude

Remnants: left overs Reluctantly: hesitantly

Chapter FiveSentence Summary: Winnie runs away and meets Jesse Tuck.

Golden Sentence: “She wandered for a long time, looking at everything, proud to forget the tight, pruned world outside, humming a little now, trying to remember the melody she heard the night before.”

Questions I Have: Did Winnie ever have any real friends? Was she really planning on running away, or just having an adventure?

Predictions I Have: I predict that the Tucks have a secret to share with Winnie and that they will.


Describe Jesse’s personality.

Identify why you do or do not trust him.

How does Winnie feel about the woods? Prove it.

Explain the setting. Why is the wood so important?

How can you tell this story is from the past?

VocabularyGalling: bold behavior

Disheartened: to be let down or to feel somewhat disappointed

Consolingly: comfortingly Timidly: shyly

Irreverently: disrespectfully Primly: properly

Chapter SixSentence Summary: Winnie is captured, but is not afraid of the Tuck family.

Golden Sentence: “But none of her visions had been like this, with her kidnappers just a alarmed as she was herself.”

Questions I Have: Why did the Tuck family take her? Will they keep her for a long time?

Predictions I Have: I predict the the Tuck family will keep Winnie for awhile to share their secret.


Why do you think the Tucks took Winnie?

How did Winnie react at first?

What made Winnie stop crying in the forest?

Who did they see in the forest and how could this cause trouble?

What calmed Winnie down?

VocabularyAstonishing: shocking

Perversely: to behave in an unreasonable/illogical way

Implored: begged

Chapter SevenSentence Summary: The Tuck Family tells Winnie the truth.

Golden Sentence: “But you see, Winnie Foster, when I told you before I’m a hundred and four years-old, I was telling the truth. But I’m really only seventeen. And, so far as I know, I’ll stay seventeen till the end of the world.” - Jesse Tuck

Questions I Have: Why haven’t they added anyone in on their secret since? Will Winnie believe them?

Predictions I Have: I predict that Winnie will not know what to believe or do with the news.


Was Tuck wrong to shoot himself?

How would you take the news the Tucks delivered?

What does Miles mean when he says, “We don’t know how it works, or even why.”

What age would you choose if you were to drink from the spring?

Would you believe the Tuck family?

Vocabulary Knobby: bumpy

Peculiar: unusual, odd

Chapter EightSentence Summary: Winnie decides to go with the Tuck family.

Golden Sentence: “Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discovered the wings she’d always wished she had.”

Questions I Have: How will Winnie fit into the Tuck family? Will she want to leave?

Predictions I Have: I predict that Winnie will really like living with the Tucks. I predict her family will search for her.


Why do you think Winnie did not believe in fairy tales?

Compare Miles and Jesse.

How were the Tucks childlike?

What did Winnie mean by “Wings she wished she’d had?”

What do you predict will happen to the Tuck family now that they’ve shared their secret?

VocabularyParson: pastor, church

leader Spite: a desire to hurt,

annoy, or offend someone on purpose

Elated: joyous, excited

Chapter NineSentence Summary: Winnie is introduced to Angus Tuck and welcomed into the family.

Golden Sentence: “I’ll go on and say, this is the finest thing that’s happened in – oh – at least eighty-seven years.” Angus Tuck

Questions I Have: Why did Angus’s attitude change so much? How will the Tuck’s lives change because of Winnie?

Predictions I Have: I predict that the Tucks will take care of Winnie. I predict the stranger will make trouble.


How did Mae and Miles prove they cared about Winnie?

Give an example of imagery in the chapter.

Why did Winnie become shy again?

How did Angus Tuck change?

Imagine you’re Winnie, describe your feelings right now.

VocabularyVigorous: strong, healthy, full of

energy Revived: restore to life or

consciousness Loomed: appeared as a shadowy figure

Embankment: a wall built of soil or rock meant to prevent a river flooding

Solemnly: seriously, formally

Chapter TenSentence Summary: Winnie is introduced to the Tuck’s way of life.

Golden Sentence: “Into it all came Winnie, eyes wide, and very much amazed. It was a whole new idea to her that people could live in such disarray, but at the same time she was charmed.”

Questions I Have: How is Winnie feeling about her own family at this point in the story? Does she doubt their way of living?

Predictions I Have: I predict that Winnie will come away from this experience very changed.


Do you think Winnie likes her current lifestyle of order? Explain.

Describe the Tuck’s home.

Why was Winnie “charmed” at the way the Tucks lived?

Explain Mae Tuck’s perspective on life.

Do you think the everlasting life-water was a blessing or a curse?

VocabularyIndomitable: impossible to

defeat homely: ugly

perilous: dangerous helter-skelter: disheveled,

messy, haphazard

Chapter ElevenSentence Summary: Winnie shares a meal with the Tuck family.

Golden Sentence: “All these thoughts flowed at once from the dark part of her mind.”

Questions I Have: Was it necessary for the Tucks to take her? Could they have just explained it and met her again?

Predictions I Have: I predict Winnie will not leave right away, but will stay with the Tucks because she likes them.


Why was Winnie more comfortable when she was, “Out of doors?”

Why does Tuck feel there, “Ain’t a whole lot of time?”

How are the Tucks fairly opposite of most criminals?

How does Jesse feel about Winnie?

Why is the stranger such a problem?

VocabularyLuxurious: lavish,

comfortable and fancy Elation: pure joy

Decisively: decidedly, unwavering decision

Chapter TwelveSentence Summary: Angus Tuck explains why they keep the spring a secret.

Golden Sentence: “You can’t have living without dying.” - Angus Tuck

Questions I Have: Will Winnie want to live forever? Will she have the choice to make?

Predictions I Have: I predict Winnie will have to make a choice between living forever and not.


How does the author set the mood and tone of the scene?

What do you feel is the author’s perspective? How can you tell?

How does Winnie feel?

Do you agree with Tuck?

What do you predict Winnie will do?

VocabularySkittering: move lightly and

quickly Brambles: prickly vine or shrub Willy-Nilly: without direction

or planning Anguish: deep distress or

emotional pain

Chapter Thirteen Sentence Summary: The stranger confirms that he knows who took Winnie.

Golden Sentence: “Though it was late now, almost midnight, the windows glowed golden: the family had not gone to bed.”

Questions I Have: What was the family doing to find Winnie? Why hadn’t they been out in the woods looking themselves?

Predictions I Have: I predict that the stranger will manipulate the family to get what he wants.


Why do you think the stranger didn’t take Winnie with him?

Why did he steal the horse?

Why was Winnie’s family awake at midnight? How do you predict they were looking for her?

What is the mood of this scene? Prove it.

What is your prediction of the family’s reaction?

VocabularyStrode: walked casually

Chapter FourteenSentence Summary: The Tucks talk to Winnie about how they each feel.

Golden Sentence: “And you and me, we could have a good time that never,never stopped.” - Jesse Tuck

Questions I Have: Will Winnie do what Jesse suggested? Should she do it?

Predictions I Have: I predict that there will be problems with the stranger.


Why did Mae and Tuck come to visit Winnie?

What was Jesse’s plan?

How is Jesse different than his family?

How does Winnie feel?

T-S: Have you ever been torn about a decision in your life?

VocabularyEvidently: obviously

Rumpled: crumpled, messy Holler: yell

Earnestly: honestly

Chapter FifteenSentence Summary: The stranger visits the Fosters to tell them about Winnie.

Golden Sentence: “I’ve got what you want, and you’ve got what I want.” - The Stranger

Questions I Have: Will the Fosters give up their land? Will they send a search party to find Winnie?

Predictions I Have: I predict that they will have to go and find Winnie and the Tucks will be caught.


What is the stranger’s tone? Prove it.

What is the mood of the scene? Prove it.

How is the stranger characterized?

What does the man want?

How did he manipulate them?

VocabularyDestination: place you’re

headed to Seldom: not often

Constable: police officer

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