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Tuck Everlasting Reflection Brief synopsis Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt is about Winnie Foster, a 10 year old girl who lives in the village of Treegap. Her family owns the woods on the edge of Treegap. One day Winnie went into the woods and met a young man named Jesse who was drinking from a spring. Winnie wanted some water, but Jesses refused. Winnie was then kidnapped by Jesse, his mother, and brother. She was taken back to their house and told that the water made people immortal and that she wasn’t allowed tell anyone or drink it. There was a man in a yellow suit who was following them and heard all about the water. The man in the yellow suit returned to Treegap and made a deal with the Fosters. The man and yellow suit returned to Winnie with the constable and was killed by Jesse’s mother. Jesses mother was arrested, and Winnie was returned home. Jesses, his brother and father hatched an escape plan. Winnie helped them execute the escape plan. Jesse and his family left town and Winnie went on the live the rest of her life. Description of the genre Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt is a fantasy fiction book. It is a fantasy fiction book because it is a story that is about made up characters and some of the events of the story cannot happen in real life. To be more specific Tuck Everlasting is a strange situations fantasy fiction book. It is in the strange situation subcategory because Winnie is faced with a strange situation that cannot happen in real life. Personal response

2 Tucking Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt is a wonderful, heart pounding and warm story about adventure, risks, and friendship. The book had so many great concepts and each concept was brought to a satisfying close. This book was very intriguing to me. When I first started reading the book I was a little confused because the setting and characters jumped back and forth. After the first few chapters I finally had an understanding of what location and characters I was reading about. After the initial confusion I was able to read the book with ease. One of my favorite things about this book is the importance of friendship and family. Winnie risks her life to save the Tucks and keep their secret. When she did this she knew she would have to face the wrath of her very strict well-mannered family, but she didn’t care. Winnie knew that what she was doing was right and she had to do it. When she faced her family, they couldn’t understand why she would do such a thing, they hadn’t raised her that way. She explained that they are her friends and she loves them. Her family understood and respected her choices. This spoke volumes to me. Even though she made some dangerous decisions her family still stood by her side and were supportive of her. Once her family understood her reasoning they didn’t hate or punish her, they loved her. Classroom applications This book can be used in the classroom as a literature circle. I would use this from fourth grade to seventh grade. One activity I would use with my class is a reader theater. Since the book is pretty long I would break the book into scenes and assign a group of 4-6 students a script that is based off of the scene they have. Students will then assign themselves parts and act out the scene they have, this will require movement. I would have the students plan their scene and present them to the class. I would also have students fill out a plot chart. A plot chart would be

3 great to use with this book because it helps them learn and understand the parts of the plot. For ELs they can draw the plot out using pictures.

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Babbitt, N. and Thomas, P. (2007). Tuck everlasting. New York: Square Fish. Short, K., Lynch-Brown, C. and Tomlinson, C. (2018). Essentials of children's literature. 9th ed. New York: Pearson....