Transcript Focus questions

Tuck Everlasting
Chapter 1
Vocabulary: tranquil, meager,
melancholy, bovine, tolerantly
Focus Questions:
1) Who was responsible for the
woods’ isolation?
2) Why is the Foster’s home called
the “Touch-me-not” cottage?
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Chapter 3-4
Vocabulary: intent, marionette,
remnants, reluctantly, satisfaction
Focus Questions:
1) Who does Winnie tell her
troubles to? What does she tell
it?
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Chapter 5
Vocabulary: galling, consolingly,
alarming, self-assurance, irrelevant
Focus Questions:
1) Describe the change in the light,
flowers, and creatures Winnie
notices as she goes into the
wood.
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Chapter 7
Vocabulary: scornful, parson,
receded
Focus Questions:
1) Describe the first time the Tucks
discovered that there was
something wrong?
2) What happened to Miles’ wife and
children?
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Chapter 9
Vocabulary: embankment,
melancholy, vanity, vigorous,
colander
Focus Questions:
Reread the final paragraph on p. 47. What
does the author mean by “….it was as if they
had slipped in under a giant colander.”
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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?
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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?
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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?
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Chapter 14
Cause and Effect
Winnie
Couldn’t
sleep.
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Chapter 16
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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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. 123.
What does Winnie hear, see, smell?
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Epilogue
Vocabulary: verandah, rambling,
inscription, hastily
Focus questions:
1) How had Treegap changed?
2)Why do you think the Tucks came
back to Treegap?