Here is a link I saved a couple years ago. This site has a student study guide, with questions, vocab, enrichment: http://www.nt.net/%7Etorino/tuck.html
Here is a link to the Scholastic reading guide: http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/pdfs/Tuck_Everlasting.pdf Here is something else I saved: *Novel Studies * *Title: *Tuck Everlasting: Social Dilemmas *Author: *District 16 Cooperative Networking Team, Miramichi, N.B. *Subject: *Language Arts *Grade level: *4-8 *Questions: * 1. Throughout the story the Tucks move on. For many reasons our own friends and family members have to move on. Write some reasons why someone you know has moved several times and how these moves have affected family members. 2. The Tuck family agreed to meet every ten years. We often see advertisements in newspapers notifying people of family reunions. Why do we have family get-togethers? Write a paragraph about how your family keeps in touch. 3. Tuck made this statement to Winnie, "That's the way its supposed to be. That's the way it is." Has anyone ever said this to you? Can you think of a time when you would agree with this statement? Disagree? Explain. 4. Reread the conversation Miles had with Winnie about his children on page 84. How might things have changed if Miles had given his children the water to drink? 5. Why did Winnie decide to keep the Tucks' secret? Is it hard to keep a secret? Sometimes keeping a secret can be very important. In your group discuss examples of when it is important to keep secrets. It can also harmful to keep a secret. Discuss with your group examples of when a secret should be told. 6. Various conflicts can make up the plot of the story. A conflict is some problem or struggle that must be overcome. Conflicts can be between people, or between people and some force in nature, such as a storm. People can also conflicts within themselves. Describe two conflicts in chapters 20, 21, and 22, and identify the type of conflict each is. In your group discuss some problem solving strategies and decide how you would overcome these conflicts. 7. Imagine that you had been taken by the Tucks the way Winnie was. What would your reaction have been? How would your family have reacted? Why did Winnie react the way she did? 8. The Tucks discussed the good and bad about their circumstances. List the things they discussed under the appropriate heading and add other good and bad things about which your group can think . 9. These words were very important to Winnie, "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage." What do this quotation mean to you? In your group think of a scenario in which this quotation could apply to your life or that of someone you know. 10. Why do you think Winnie chose not to drink from the spring? What would you have done and why would you have made this decision? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I used this book, one of the things we were focusing on was character traits, so we did acrostic poems with the story character's names. The students could use just words or phrases. We had been keeping a chart of traits for the characters as we read, so they had something to draw from when we did this. This was a "poetry partner" activity. Cynthia On 12/17/06, Joy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We are going to begin reading Tuck Everlasting in our fourth grade classes > in January. Does anyone have any reccomendations for resources for this > book? I've gone to the Carol Hurst website, but thought maybe someone on > this listserve may have some additional resources that fit well with Mosaic > strategies. > > I'm going to run this as a class-wide Lit Circle, any ideas or > suggestions would be appreciated. (After doing this book as a class we are > going to run individualized Lit Circles with student chosen literature.) > > Thanks! > > > Joy/NC/4 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and > content go hand in hand. http://www.responsiveclassroom.org > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
