The Giving Tree

What is the moral of the story, The Giving Tree?

• Always tell the truth.

•   Be generous and kind to others.

•   Never be late.

• Always clean up after yourself.

What happens first in the story?

• The boy becomes old and weak.

• The boy becomes old and weak.

• The boy plays on the tree’s branches and eats her apples

• The boy doesn’t like to be with the tree.

What happens last in the story?

• The tree is happy because the by comes to visit again

• The boy becomes too busy to visit the tree

• The tree gives away her apples.

• The tree gives the boy branches.

What is the order in which these events happen?

• The tree gives away her APPLES, then BRANCHES, then TRUNK.

• The tree gave away her BRANCHES, then APPLES, then TRUNK.

• The tree gave away her TRUNK, then BRANCHES, then APPLES.

Why did the tree want to give the boy all she had?

• She didn’t want him to come back.

• She didn’t like her apples, branches, or trunk.

• She loved the boy and wanted him to be happy.

• She was forced to.

What is the conclusion of the story?

• The tree told the boy to leave.

• The boy sells the tree’s apples.

• The boy never returns to the tree.

• The tree is happy again.

After the boy said he needed money, what did the tree do?

• Told him to leave.

• Didn’t love the boy.

• Gave the boy some money.

• Gave him all her apples to sell.

Because the boy was old and weak, and the tree had nothing left o give…

• The boy left the tree for good.

• The tree told the boy to leave.

• The boy went to a different tree in the forest.

• The tree told the by to sit on her stump and rest.

How does the boy act as he grows older?

• Sweet

• Greedy/selfish

• Generous

• funny

How does the tree act throughout the story?

• funny

• Sweet

• Generous

• Greedy/selfish