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Tuck EverlastingChapter OneBy Natalie Babbitt

Questions: Answer the following questions in your reading journal. Your responses must include sentence starters and specific details from the book.

1. Who owned the touch-me-not cottage?

2. According to the author, why had Winnie never been curious about exploring the woods?

3. What is located near the giant ash tree?

4. Although we are not told, suggest reasons why it may have been a disaster if the spring had been discovered by people.

Vocabulary : Use a dictionary to find the meaning of each of the following words and write the words and definitions in your reading journal.

1. trod-__________________________________________________________________

2. tangent-_______________________________________________________________

3. ambled-________________________________________________________________

4. bovine-________________________________________________________________

5. meager-________________________________________________________________

6. forlorm-________________________________________________________________

Character Study: In your reading response journal write 2-3 characteristics each character has and what evidence from the book makes you think that. These do not have to be in complete sentences.

1. Winnie Foster

Tuck EverlastingChapter Two

By Natalie Babbitt


1. How are Angus's and Mae's personalities different? How can you tell?

2. Why did Mae's husband resent being awakened by his wife?

3. Why did Mae want to go to the woods?

4. What did Mae place into her pocket?

5. What strange thing is revealed at the end of this chapter?


1. melancholy-_______________________________________________________________

2. tolerantly-________________________________________________________________

3. petticoats-________________________________________________________________

4. tarnished-________________________________________________________________

5. rueful-___________________________________________________________________

6. brim-____________________________________________________________________

Written Response: Respond to this prompt in your reading response journal

Come up with a title for this chapter. Explain why you chose the title you did and give supporting evidence from the chapter.

Tuck EverlastingChapter Three and Four

By Natalie Babbitt


1. Why would Winnie like to have a sibling?

2. What promise does Winnie make to the toad?

3. How does Winnie feel about her life?

4. For whom or what do you think the man in the yellow suit is searching?

5. How do you feel about the man in the yellow suit? What make you think that?

6. Why does the stranger wear an expression of satisfaction at the end of the chapter?


1. bristly-__________________________________________________________________

2. intrusions-_______________________________________________________________

3. grimace-_________________________________________________________________

4. exasperated-_____________________________________________________________

5. retorted-_________________________________________________________________

6. jaunty-__________________________________________________________________

7. self-deprecation-__________________________________________________________

8. remnants-_______________________________________________________________


Predict one or two events that might happen next in the story.

Tuck EverlastingChapter Five By Natalie Babbitt

Questions: Answer the following questions in your reading journal, on a separate sheet of paper, or on the back of this sheet. Your responses must include sentence starters and specific details from the book.

1. What does Winnie hope to find in the woods?

2. Why is Winnie surprised when she finally enters the woods?

3. How does Winnie respond to Jesse? What do you think of him?

4. What do you think Mae Tuck means when she says, "The worst is happening at last"?

5. What does the young boy tell Winnie when she asks if she can drink from the spring?

Vocabulary : Use a dictionary to find the meaning of each of the following words and write the words and definitions below.

1. galling- (noun 2)___________________________________________________________

2. disheartened- (verb) ________________________________________________________

3. venture- (noun)____________________________________________________________

4. consolingly- (adverb)________________________________________________________

5. interlacing- (verb 1)_________________________________________________________

6. splotches- (noun)___________________________________________________________

7. self-absorbed- (adjective)____________________________________________________

8. abruptly- (adjective 1)_______________________________________________________

9. irrelevantly- (adjective)______________________________________________________

10. primly- (adjective 1)________________________________________________________

Written Response: Respond to this prompt in your reading response journal, on a separate sheet of paper, or on the back of this sheet.

List the questions that formed in your mind at the end of this chapter.

Tuck EverlastingChapter SixBy Natalie Babbitt


1. Describe the many different emotions felt by the Tucks and by Winnie at this point in the story.

2. Do you sympathize with the Tucks' feelings? Why or why not?

3. Can you relate to Winnie's feelings? Why or why not?

4. How do Winnie's visions of what it would be like to be kidnapped compare with her actual experience?

5. What effect does the music box have on everyone?


1. bridle-___________________________________________________________________

2. troupe-___________________________________________________________________

3. perversely-________________________________________________________________

4. goggled-__________________________________________________________________

5. dismay-__________________________________________________________________

6. implored-_________________________________________________________________

7. faltered-__________________________________________________________________


Write a journal entry pretending to be Winnie. What would she say after what happened to her that day? Would she be happy or sad? Be sure to include details from the chapter that Winnie would have included in her entry.

Tuck EverlastingChapter Seven By Natalie Babbitt


1. What do you think about the Tucks' story? Support your thinking with examples from the book.

2. If you were Winnie, would you believe their story? Why or why not?

3. What convinces Winnie that she is probably the first person to hear the Tuck's story?

4. Summarize what has happened to the Tucks since they drank from the spring.

5. When did the Tuck family first suspect that something was terribly wrong?

6. List some parts of Chapter 7 that are fantasy and others that are realistic.


1. gypsies-__________________________________________________________________

Written Response: Respond to this prompt in your reading response journal.

If you had to remain one age forever, what age would you choose? Defend your choice

Tuck EverlastingChapter Nine and TenBy Natalie Babbitt


1. How does Winnie feel about her life and about the Tucks now? What is one of the major ways in which Winnie has changed? Give evidence from the story.

2. Compare and contrast Winnie's home and the Tucks' home. What key words describe Winnie's home and the Tucks' cottage?

3. How does the author make the chairs appear almost human to us?

4. Why according to Mae, is it difficult for her and her sons to stay in one place too long?


1. vanity-___________________________________________________________________

2. brink-____________________________________________________________________

3. hoarding-_________________________________________________________________

4. colander-_________________________________________________________________

5. scoured-__________________________________________________________________

6. indomitable-_______________________________________________________________

7. eddies-___________________________________________________________________

8. camphor-_________________________________________________________________

9. mirage-__________________________________________________________________

10. disarray-_________________________________________________________________


Describe how you might react if someone in your community didn't appear to age. What would you think if you had never read this story?

Tuck EverlastingChapters Eleven, Twelve, and ThirteenBy Natalie Babbitt


1. In Chapter 11 Winnie’s excitement is starting to wear off. How is she feeling about the Tucks now?

2. In Chapter 12 Tuck uses the wheel image again. Compare it to the author’s use of it in the prologue?

3. Tuck says, “Dying’s part of the wheel, right there next to being born.” What do you think this means? Why aren’t the Tuck’s part of the wheel?

4. Why do you think Tuck is so desperate for Winnie to understand the importance of keeping the spring a secret?

5. The man in the yellow suit tells the Fosters that he has happy news for them. Do you think it is happy news? Why or why not? Will Winnie think it is happy news? Why or why not?


1. submission- _______________________________________________________________

2. cavernous-________________________________________________________________

3. perilous-__________________________________________________________________

4. trill- _____________________________________________________________________

5. lolled- ___________________________________________________________________

Written Response: Respond to this prompt in your reading response journal, on the back of this page, or on a separate sheet of paper.

Choose any two chapters we’ve read so far and come up with a title that you think would be a perfect fit for that particular chapter. Explain why you chose the titles that you did.

Tuck EverlastingChapters Fourteen, Fifteen, and SixteenBy Natalie Babbitt

Questions: Answer the following questions in your reading journal, on the back of this sheet, or on a separate sheet of paper. Your responses must include sentence starters and specific details from the book.

1. While Winnie is trying to fall asleep she is visited by Tuck, Mae, and Jesse. Why do each of these people visit her?

2. What trade does the man in the yellow suit make with the Fosters? Why?

3. Why do you think the author chose not to give the man in the yellow suit a name? Why did she choose the color yellow for his suit?

4. Why might the man in the yellow suit be so anxious to get back to Winnie ahead of the constable?


1. illiterates- ________________________________________________________________

2. constable- ________________________________________________________________

3. roust- ___________________________________________________________________

4. barbarian- ________________________________________________________________

5. cahoots-__________________________________________________________________

Name: __________Tuck EverlastingChapters Seventeen, Eighteen, and NineteenBy Natalie Babbitt


1. Why do you think Miles did not give his family some of the water?

2. What finally convinces Winnie that living forever is probably not the best thing in the world?

3. What do you think the man’s plans were for the spring? Are you in favor or against it?

4. What causes Mae to hit the man with the gun? Did she have any other choices? If so, what were they?


1. searing- _________________________________________________________________

2. petulance- ________________________________________________________________

3. tarnation- ________________________________________________________________

4. teeming- _________________________________________________________________

Name: __________Tuck EverlastingChapters Twenty, Twenty-One, and Twenty-TwoBy Natalie Babbitt


1. What will happen if the constable tries to hang Mae? What will the consequences of this be?

2. The author has set this story in August and there are many references to the heat and heavy air. Find and copy three of them. Why do you think the author chose August?

3. What did the Fosters sense shortly after they had put Winnie to bed?

4. Why does Winnie accept that the man in the yellow suit must die?

5. What affect did the warm metal bars of the fence have on Winnie's thoughts?

6. How does the grandmother react when Winnie tells her that she would like to give the toad a drink of water?

7. What is Miles' plan?

8. How does Winnie offer to help or in her own words, make a difference?


1. babbling-_________________________________________________________________

2. murmurs-_________________________________________________________________

3. reliably-__________________________________________________________________

4. insistent-_________________________________________________________________

5. acrid-____________________________________________________________________

6. exertion-_________________________________________________________________

7. parched-_________________________________________________________________

8. mingled-_________________________________________________________________

Name: __________Tuck EverlastingChapters Twenty-Three and Twenty-FourBy Natalie Babbitt

Questions: Answer the following questions in your reading journal, on the back of this sheet, or on a separate sheet of paper. Your responses must TTQA and include specific details from the book.

1. Have you ever used Winnie’s excuse, “Well you never told me NOT to!” when you were trying to get away with something you knew you shouldn’t have done? When?

2. The Tuck’s and Winnie have only known each other for about 2 days. Why is there such a strong bond of affection between them?

3. Chapter 24 is a real ‘page-turner’. How does Natalie Babbitt build suspense in the description of Mae’s escape?

4. In what way is Winnie a criminal?


1. ponderous- _______________________________________________________________

2. prostrate-_________________________________________________________________

3. gentility- _________________________________________________________________

4. lapse- ___________________________________________________________________

Tuck EverlastingChapter 16 & 17By Natalie Babbitt


1. How does the stranger justify his delay in reporting the crime to the constable?

2. Why does the constable express surprise when he learns that the Fosters have agreed to sell their land to the stranger?

3. How did the man in the yellow suit respond when the constable asked him what he intended to do with his newly acquired piece of property?

4. When fishing with Miles, why does Winnie kill a mosquito but ask Miles to let the trout go free?

5. Describe Winnie's feelings toward the Tucks now.

6. What is the clincher that convinced Winnie that the Tucks were right about wanting to keep the spring a secret?


1. roust-____________________________________________________________________

2. cahoots-__________________________________________________________________

3. foothills-__________________________________________________________________

4. cantering-_________________________________________________________________

5. gander-__________________________________________________________________

6. peril- ____________________________________________________________________

7. teeming-_________________________________________________________________

8. blotter-__________________________________________________________________

9. barbed-__________________________________________________________________


How has Winnie become more mature as a result of her short stay with the Tuck family? ExplainTuck EverlastingChapter 21 & 22By Natalie Babbitt


1. Why did Winnie like her rocking chair despite the fact she had outgrown it?

2. What defense did the Fosters offer for Winnie when they learn that she went to the Tuck house on her own?

3. What did the Fosters sense shortly after they had put Winnie to bed?

4. Why does Winnie accept that the man in the yellow suit must die?

5. What affect did the warm metal bars of the fence have on Winnie's thoughts?

6. How does the grandmother react when Winnie tells her that she would like to give the toad a drink of water?

7. What is Miles' plan?

8. How does Winnie offer to help or in her own words, make a difference?


9. babbling-_________________________________________________________________

10. murmurs-______________________________________________________________

11. reliably-________________________________________________________________

12. insistent-_______________________________________________________________

13. acrid-__________________________________________________________________14. exertion-

_______________________________________________________________

15. parched-_______________________________________________________________

16. mingled-_______________________________________________________________Written Response: Respond to this prompt in your reading response journal.

Why do you think people enjoy reading fantasy even though they realize it isn't actually true?

Tuck EverlastingChapters 25 & EpilogueBy Natalie Babbitt

Questions: Answer the following questions in your reading journal, on the back of this paper, or on a separate sheet of paper. Your responses must include sentence starters and specific details from the book.

1. What evidence is there that many years have passed since the Tucks returned to Treegap?

2. Why does Tuck say “Good girl” when he sees Winnie’s gravestone?

3. Tuck moves a toad out of harm’s way as he and Mae leave Treegap. What do you make of this incident?

4. Do you think the Tuck’s secret will now be safe? Why or why not?

Vocabulary : Use a dictionary to find the meaning of each of the following words and write the definitions below.

1. constricted- _______________________________________________________________

2. wistful- __________________________________________________________________

3. staunchly- ________________________________________________________________

4. accomplice- _______________________________________________________________

5. revulsion- ________________________________________________________________

Written Response: Respond to this prompt in your reading response journal, on the back of this page, or on a separate sheet of paper.

Write a diary account of what Winnie thinks and does on her 17th birthday.

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