1. Tuck Everlasting
Chapter 1
Vocabulary: tranquil, meager, melancholy, bovine, tolerantly
Focus Questions:
Who was responsible for the woods’ isolation?
Why is the Foster’s home called the “Touch-me-not” cottage?

2. Tuck Everlasting
Chapter 3-4
Vocabulary: intent, marionette, remnants, reluctantly, satisfaction
Focus Questions:
Who does Winnie tell her troubles to? What does she tell it?

3. Tuck Everlasting
Chapter 5
Vocabulary: galling, consolingly, alarming, self-assurance, irrelevant
Focus Questions:
Describe the change in the light, flowers, and creatures Winnie notices as she goes into the wood.

4. Vocabulary: scornful, parson, receded
Tuck Everlasting
Chapter 7
Vocabulary: scornful, parson, receded
Focus Questions:
Describe the first time the Tucks discovered that there was something wrong?
What happened to Miles’ wife and children?

5. Vocabulary: embankment, melancholy, vanity, vigorous, colander
Tuck Everlasting
Chapter 9
Vocabulary: embankment, melancholy, vanity, vigorous, colander
Focus Questions:
Reread the final paragraph on p What does the author mean by “….it was as if they had slipped in under a giant colander.”

6. 1) Describe the Tuck’s home.
Tuck Everlasting
Chapter 10
vocabulary: submission, fortress, indomitable, wisps, luxurious, decisively
Focus questions:
1) Describe the Tuck’s home.
2) Mae said that it’s just about time for the Tucks to be moving on. Why?

7. 2) Tuck said that his family is “stuck”. What does he mean?
Tuck Everlasting
Chapter 12
Vocabulary: dimensions, brambles, anguish
Focus questions:
1) Tuck took Winnie to the pond to explain the importance of the secret. Why?
2) Tuck said that his family is “stuck”. What does he mean?

8. 2) How did Winnie feel as she lay on the couch trying to sleep?
Tuck Everlasting
Chapter 14
Vocabulary: lingered, illiterates, constable
Focus questions:
1) What did Tuck mean when he said, “….since we had a natural, growing child…?”
2) How did Winnie feel as she lay on the couch trying to sleep?

9. Tuck Everlasting
Chapter 14
Cause and Effect
Winnie Couldn’t sleep.

10. Tuck Everlasting Chapter 16 Focus questions:
Vocabulary: roust, companionable, peril, searing
Focus questions:
1) Describe the constable’s reaction when the man in the yellow suit said the Fosters had sold him the wood.
2) Describe the attitude of the man in the yellow suit? …the constable?

11. 1) Why didn’t Winnie and Miles bring home any fish?
Tuck Everlasting
Chapter 18
Vocabulary: surveyed, alien, immense, petulance
Focus questions:
1) Why didn’t Winnie and Miles bring home any fish?
2) Why is the man in the yellow suit at the door?

12. 1) Why did Mae hit the man in the yellow suit?
Tuck Everlasting
Chapter 20-21
Vocabulary: emerging, mingled, insistent, crouched
Focus questions:
1) Why did Mae hit the man in the yellow suit?
2) Tuck was looking at the body on the ground. He looked envious, like a starving man looking through a window at a banquet. Why?

13. 1) Find 2 examples of similes in the chapter.
Tuck Everlasting
Chapter 22-23
Vocabulary: gingerly, parched, remorseless, prostrate
Focus questions:
1) Find 2 examples of similes in the chapter.
2) What did Jesse give Winnie?

14. 1) What was the last thing Jesse said to Winnie? What was his message?
Tuck Everlasting
Chapter 24-25
Vocabulary: accusations, detached, ebbed, protruding, exultant
Focus questions:
1) What was the last thing Jesse said to Winnie? What was his message?
2)Sensory images: Reread p What does Winnie hear, see, smell?

15. 1) How had Treegap changed?
Tuck Everlasting
Epilogue
Vocabulary: verandah, rambling, inscription, hastily
Focus questions:
1) How had Treegap changed?
2)Why do you think the Tucks came back to Treegap?