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Pre-Reading
1. Vocabulary
2. Read Chapters l - 6
3. Comprehension
- 1. At what time of year does the story begin? What is the mood?
- 2. What is the road to Treegap like? How does it change as it approaches the wood?
- 3. Who is Winnie Foster? What is her connection to the wood?
- 4. What is Mae Tuck like? Why is she planning to go to the wood?
- 5. Who is "Tuck"? What does he dream about?
- 6. What object is special to Mae Tuck?
- 7. What does the stranger ask Winnie and her grandmother about?
- 8. What do Winnie, her grandmother, and the stranger hear? How does Winnie's grandmother explain it?
- 9. Whom does Winnie see in the clearing? How do these two seem to feel about meeting each other?
- l0. Who kidnaps Winnie? How does she feel about being kidnapped? How do her kidnappers feel about kidnapping her?
Pre-Reading
1. Vocabulary
populated (38) whit (40) scornful (42) peculiar (42)
vanity (46) vigorous (46) colander (47) assaults (50)
submission (50) indomitable (50) eddies (50) cavernous (51)
disarray (52) elation (57) surge (58) decisively (59)
dimensions (62) silhouettes (62) anguish (64) penetrate (47)
2. Read Chapters 7 - 12
Summarize and Predict - As you read each chapter summarize it in a short paragraph and in a second paragraph predict what you think will happen next.
Pre-Reading
1. Vocabulary
outrage (68) lingered (70) confusion (7l) destination (73)
barbarian (74) gestured (74) illiterates (74) ordeal (75)
cahoots (77) companionable(78) accommodations (78) gallows (78)
grudgingly (79) peril (85) teeming (85) rigid (86)
reasserting (86) persisted (87) fleeting (9l) alien (9l)
2. Read Chapters 13-18
Summarize and Predict - As you read each chapter summarize it in a short paragraph and in a second paragraph predict what you think will happen next.
3. Comprehension
In your group, discuss the following questions and have the group agree on the answers.
1. What kind of sleep does Winnie have? Why?
2. What is Jesse's plan for the future? What does Winnie think of that plan? What do you think of it?
3. What does the man in the yellow suit want in exchange for Winnie?
4. How does the stranger treat the constable?
5. Why does the stranger say he is going ahead? Do you think that is the real reason?
6. What does Miles want to do with his life? How is he different from his father?
7. Why don't Miles and Winnie catch any fish for breakfast?
8. What does Miles mean when he tells Winnie that "People got to be meat-eaters sometimes"? (p. 88) Do you agree?
9. As Winnie looks around at the Tucks, who seems "dearest of them all?" (p.9l) Why do you think that is?
l0. What happens to break the pleasant mood at the Tuck's breakfast table?
Pre-Reading
1. Vocabulary
In your group, come up with one or two good synonyms and a short definition for each word. This will be a closed book test. The page number is in brackets.
fantastic (95) tension (97) immense (97) fatal (98)
petulance (98) ghastly (99) clenched (l00) sprawled (l0l)
unflinchingly (l02) shrugged (l02 babbling (l06) borne (l07
acrid (l09) exertion (lll) gingerly (lll) parched (ll2)
ponderous (ll6) remorseless (ll6) lapse (ll6) prostrate (ll7)
2. Read Chapters 19 - 24
3. Comprehension
In your group, discuss the following questions and have the group agree on the answers.
1. How did the stranger first learn about the Tucks and the fact that they never aged?
2. Why does the stranger want the wood and spring?
3. What offer does the stranger make the Tucks? How do they react?
4. Why does Mae Tuck strike the stranger?
5. Why does Winnie feel that she must keep Mae Tuck from going to the gallows?
6. How does Winnie's family treat her when she returns home?
7. Why does Winnie take a bowl of water outside?
8. What does Jesse give Winnie?
9. How does the weather change as Winnie and the Tucks help Mae escape? How does the weather aid in the rescue?
l0. How does Winnie help Mae get away? Have you ever done anything you knew you would get in trouble for - because you felt that it was the right thing to do?
Pre-Reading
1. Vocabulary
In your group, come up with one or two good synonyms and a short definition for each word. You will be allowed to use your answers in an open book matching quiz on these words. The page number is in brackets.
profoundly (l28) unwittingly (l28) perversely (l28) constricted (l28)
accomplice (l29) custody (l29) staunchly (l30) gait (l3l)
revulsion (l3l) verandah (l35) curlicues (l37) imposing (l37)
quickened (l37) tinkling (l39) chrome (l36) wrought (l37)
embarrassed (l38) reined (l39) ketchup (l36) pharmacy (l35)
2. Read Chapter 25 and Epilogue
3. Personal Response -
a. What did you think of the story? Explain your answer.
b. What do you think the author was trying to get you to think about? Explain your answer
4. Comprehension
In your group, discuss the following questions and have the group agree on the answers.
1. What time of year is it now? Compare the first sentence in Chapter 25 with the first sentence in the book. How is the atmosphere - the overall feeling the setting creates - different now?
2. Did Winnie get into a lot of trouble with her family for her role in helping Mae escape? Why do you think they reacted this way?
3. How does Winnie rescue the toad from the dog?
4. Where does the toad appear one final time in the story?
5. How much time passes before Tuck and Mae visit Treegap again?
6. What do they learn about the wood, the tree, and the spring?
7. What was the weather like the night the tree was killed? When did you see such weather earlier in the story?
8. Do you think the spring still survives?
9. What was Winnie's life like after the Tucks left? How do you know?
l0. Why does Tuck say "Good girl " as he looks at Winnie's headstone? Are you surprised that she never drank the spring water? Do you think that this is a good ending?
- Tuck Extras (With Teacher Permission):
- Go to this site and answer a questions dealing with some social issues.
- Find out about the author online
- Use the Internet Public Library and The Why Files to:
- Compare the author's real hometown to Treegap
- Is there a real place called Treegap?
- What can you find out about frogs?
- What is science doing now to help extend life? Should we try?
- Ask the author......?
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