Tuck Everlasting, Ch. 11-12

How was the Tuck family eating etiquette?

• They were neat eaters, using proper manners.
• There seemed to be no eating rules and no one spoke until the food was gone.
• They spoke and ate like normal people.
• They hoarded food, as the family was poor and sustenance was limited.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

As time moved on in Ch. 11, Winnie began to listen to

• her heart.
• the dark part of her mind. 
• Jesse's stories about the man in the yellow suit.
• her mother's and grandmother's admonitions regarding uneducated hillbillies.

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

"I think we better hurry up and say it.  I got a feeling there ain't a whole lot of time" is an example of 

• imagery
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the motif that the is expressing when Pa Tuck states that "the pod's got answers...Let's go out on the water"?

• That water is life.
• That water bring death.
• That all answers are available through Pa.
• That rowboats bring peace.

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CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

What metaphor does Pa Tuck use in comparison to the lake?

• He compares enemies with flesh-eating piranha.
• Water, like life, looks the same.  But it's really always in motion.
• Water is cold and dark, just like life.
• The surface reveals the soul, like a mirror.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What theme does Pa stress in his conversation with Winnie?

• Beauty is only skin deep.
• The circle of life (life begins, changes, and moves on).
• Love your neighbor as yourself.
• Evil is punished and good is rewarded.

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CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

"...this rowboat now, it's stuck.  That's what us Tucks are, Willie.  Stuck so's we can't move on."  What literary device was used?

• Simile
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor/Figurative Language

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Pa compares his family, as well as those who'd drink the water, to

• rocks on the side of the road.
• sand in a timer.
• water running through hands.
• victims of their own success.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

At the close of Ch. 12 what disappears?

• the spring
• the horse
• Winnie's grandmother
• the music box

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9