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This is a place for students to post their think alouds on various readings we do so they can share them and enhance their understanding and use of reading strategies.
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Reading Strategies!!
- Visualizations
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- Summarizing and Synthesizing
- Determining What's Important
- Inferences and Predictions
- Questions
- Connections
141 comments:
Chapter 20:
On page 104, I had a question. I didn't know why Tuck was so afraid about Mae going to the gallows, because Mae wouldn't be able to die because the spring ade it so the Tucks couldn't get hurt or die.
Chapter 21:
On page 108, I had a prediction where it said "But the were new threads now, tugging and insistent, which tied her just as firmly to the Tucks." that Wiiw ws gong to run away, help Mae, and eventually live with the Tucks.
Typos corrected:
Chapter 21:
On page 108, I had a prediction where it said "But there were new threads now, tugging and insistent, which tied her just as firmly to the Tucks," that Winnie was gong to run away, help Mae, and eventually live with the Tucks.
Chapter 22:
I had a "determining what's important" when Jesse gave her the water from the spring. So now Winnie has some of the water! I wonder how she's going to use it. I hope she doesn't drink it, but that's just my opinion.
Chapter 23:
On page 116, I could visualize the day, with the earth all cracked and dry, the grass very light green, the sun sitting high in the sky, maybe some people walking by, sweating and dabbing their faces with handkerchiefs.
Chapter 24:
I had an inference on page 122 where it said "The storm was moving nearer," that the constable or a guard would find them, but then he/she would be struck by lightning, and the Tucks would get away.
Chapter 25:
I had a connection on page 128, where it said Winnie was trying not to cough. Sometimes, I have a cough, and I try to keep myself from coughing, my throat gets all ticklish, and it's very hard not to cough. I really liked this book. I've finished it now! Except for the epilogue.
Epilogue:
I had a summarize for the whole book at the very end. Okay, here we go:
Mae Tuck went out one day to meet her kids. Winnie thought about running away. One night, a man in a yellow suit comes up and asks Winnie if she knows everyone at the wood. Winnie says she doesn't. They hear a music box, and the man leaves. The next day, Winnie enters the wood to a place she'd never seen before. She sees a boy drinking from the water. She introduces herself, and begs the boy for some water. The boy and his family take Winnie to their home and tell her their situation about the spring causing them to live forever. The man in the yellow suit is eavesdropping. Winnie stays with the Tucks a few days and meanwhile, the man in the yellow suit goes to Winnie's parents, and offers to find her if they give him the wood. They agree, and the man goes to the constable to fetch Winnie. The man gets there first, and talks to the Tucks about his plans to sell the water from the spring. He starts to take Winnie away, but Mae Tuck hits him with a shotgun. The constable arrives and takes Mae to the jailhouse. A few days later, after the constable took Winnie home, Winnie finds out that the man in the yellow suit died, so Mae was going to be hanged. In the middle of the night, a few days later, during a storm, Winnie climbs into the jailhouse and switches places with Mae, and the Tucks get away. Next morning, the constable sees her instead of Mae, and takes her home again. The next day, Winnie gives a bottle of the water from the spring to a toad, who was her friend throughout the book. Many years later, Winnie dies, refusing Jesse's offering to live forever witht the bottle of water from the spring. Mae still hasn't been caught.
Was that too long?
I think Winnie made thight decision.
Great book!!
Chapter 21 page 106
I could picture the puny little rocking chair and it reminded me of a rocking chair that we have in our house. I picture it being brown and worn out and hard to fit yourself into and to rock.
Chapter 22 page 112
I could picture the toad looking as if there were a drought.. like how it looks with the dried cracks on the Savanah when it's the dry season and I could picture him weazing and slowly dying.
Chapter 23 page 116
I could picture the curtains drawn but the Sun was still blazing yellow through the curtains because of how hot it was outside and nothing could stop the Sun.
Chapter 20 page 104
I could visualize Tuck's face being wrinkled when he was thinking about Mae going to the gallows if the man died. I was like he was stunned by a poison dart.
On my last think aloud, I meant "the right decision"
Chapter 24 page 126
I could picture the white flash that was brief but jagged and the thunder was roaring loudly.
Chapter 25 page 127
I made a connection... I can remember our class discussion on jail bars and cages and groups of three and wheels for the brain frame on the prologue
On page 104, i had a Q. I didnt understand why Tuck was affraid about Mae going to the gallows bevcause Mae cant die.Was he scared she was going to get kiddnapped or lost?
I have this question; What the heck is tuck afraid of that will happen to Mae, why does he not want her to go? i mean, it's not like she's going to die or get hurt or anything. it's driving me crazy. I can't wait to find out.
I had an inference on page 108. when the book says, "But there were new threads now, tugging and insistent, which tied her just as firmly to the Tucks" that the whole "threads theory is kinda like it's refering to a bond, sorta like how a shirt is held together and bonded by threads.
when Jesse gives Winnie water from the spring, I think that she's maybe thinking about drinking it but in the end i'm gonna guess that she isn't.
I had an inference when the grandmother said "It was the elves, they must have bewitched her." My inference was that she was wrong because there were no elves.It was just Mae's music box.
I had a question at the end of page 115. My question was when Jesse said "Meet me here at midnight." I asked myself how is winnie going to get out? I would think that if winnie got kidnapped once, her parents might get very over protective.
I had a prediction in the beginning of page 117. My prediction was that when it said "In the hallway, the grandfather clock started ticking delibretly," I had a prediction. Since that Winnie started to rock to its rhythm, I predicted that she was anxious to get out of the house and save Mae.
I had a connection on page 123. When it said, "Tuck handed up a tool and Miles started to pry at the nails securing the frame." I had aconnection there because pry is one of our new vocab words.
In chapter 22 page 114 I put a star where Jesse gave Winnie some of the water from the spring to drink when she was older. I think it is so important because if Winnie ever drank the water she could live forever.
In chapter 23 on page 120 i ahd a question if Winnie was actually going to save Mae. Would the plan actually work?
In chapter 25 page 130 I had a prediction that the dog was going to eat the toad. Then I was suprised on the next page when Winnie gave the toad the water from the spring.
In the epilogue I had 2 strategies. I had a prediction that Treegap was far into the future. My other strategy was a visulization about Treegap.
(overall I think the book had many twists, turns, and suprises which made it interesting to read and enjoyable!)
chapter 21:
When Winnie was thinking Mae was weeping for the man in the yellow suit i had a prediction that she was actually not weeping.
chapter 21:
When Winnie was thinking Mae was weeping for the man in the yellow suit i had a prediction that she was actually not weeping.
chapter 22: page: 111
I had a prediction that she was going to either going to run back to Tucks house or she was going to stay out there as long as she could so that she would not have to go in side and get pampered by her family.
chapter 23: page : 116
I had a question to when they said it was a hot hot
that made it seem like it was hotter than in the last chapter when they said it was the hottest day of the year. Was it??
chapter 22 page:112
I had a prediction that Winnie was going to get the toad some water.
i also noticed that Winnies Grandmother did not really care that the toad was pretty much diying
On page 89, i had a connection. After Mae asked Miles if he didnt get a fish, he said, "No, nothing we wanted to keep." I went fishing in ME and we didnt keep any of the fish because we didnt want to.
ClaireWoodward
Epilogue--After Mae and Angus found out that Winnie died, it was obvious that she didnt drink the water, even after Jesse asked her to.
ClairWoodward
On page 102 I pictured the constable looking confused at the man in the yellow suit. He probably was thinking
"What on earth".
On page 109 I had a connection to how Winnie must have felt when the Constable said the man died. She must have felt "Oh no".
On page 104 when it said that mae Tuck was going to be gllowed which also ment hung i had a infrece that if she got hung she wouln't die so the whole town would find out the Tucks secret.
And guess what when i read to the end of the book thats the same thing Winnie thought of when she was riding the horse
-ms.pufferpuffs
on chapter 21 page 106 i thought when winnie returned i thought her family was going to ground her because they're so mean and neat and stricked people. i thought wrong. and i had a question about what are they going to do with mae since she killed the man in the yellow suit. will they have to move far away or give him some of the spring?????
-ms.pufferpuffs
on chpt. 23 i had a qeustion what would winnie do with the spring water that she got from jesse?
-ms.pufferpuffs
chapter 24: page: 121
I had a connection to when Winnie was so shocked when she left the house because i always take something from my brother and am shocked when he douse not know that it is gone.
chapter 25: page:
i had a connection to when it says "the first week in august. that is what it said when we first started reading this book.
Epilog: pages:134 -139
There was a little girl named Winnie and there was a family of 2 boys and a mom and dad.
One day Mae the mom set of to get her 2 sons Jesse and Miles.Winnie was sitting by the fence and a man in a yellow suit said "do you know everyone in the wood?" Winnie said no. Right after the man in the yellow suit leaves her and her family hear music and Winnie's grandmother thought it was elves. The day after that Winnie goes and visits her wood that she's never seen before . When she gets there she sees a boy who she thinks is very cute. She tells the boy her name and was about to drink from the water but the boy said DONT DRINK THAT WATER Winnie said why not its my wood i will drink it if i want to. The boy did not know what to do but for his luck his mom and brother came along. They put Winnie on there horse and took her to their house they tell her what happened with the spring. She was not to tell anyone.Winnie ends up staying at the Tucks house for a couple of days. While Winnie was at the Tucks the man in the yellow suit was eavesdropping and went and told Winnie's family and he offered them a trade he's said i will get you your daughter if you give me your wood. Winnie's family says okay and the man in the yellow suit go off to find Winnie. The man in the yellow suit now knows about the spring so he goes and talks to the Tucks about it and making a business for the spring . the man in the yellow suit try's to take Winnie away but Mae shoots him with a shotgun. The police arrive and ask what happened and Tuck explain and Winnie says that she wanted to come here. Then the Police took Mae to the jail house another police man took Winnie home. the Tucks and Winnie found out that the man in the yellow suit died. Then in the middle of the night the Tucks and Winnie were going to get Mae out of jail. The plan was to get Mae out and put Winnie in. the next morning the police see that Winnie had taken Maes place and he brought her home again . Then the day after that Winnie takes the bottle of the spring and sees that the toad is not safe and she pours the water on the toad. Years after the Mae and Tuck go to see if Winnie is still alive and if she drank the spring but she diden't. She died over those years.
I think that is a really good book and very interesting!!
Chater 22:
Question
My question was that if winnie swops places with mae tuck then who would get winnie out of jail? Or do the tucks have a plan to get her out. Also who's going to cover for winnie if the tucks don't get winnie out of jail in time and the foster find out?
On page 104 I made an inference. When Tuck said "...The gallows?".... "Hanging?" I then thought that hanging wouldn't matter because Mae would live forever. I was wrong because then everyone would find out they would live forever.
I made a connection on page 106when "Winnie pulled her little rocking chairup to her bedroom window and sat down." I had a connection because I have a little rocking chair that I sit in by the window when i read. Even though it is to small I don"t want to get rid of it.
I had a question on page 112 about why the grandmother woulden"t give the toad some water. I thought if they were treating Winnie like an "egg" that she would give the toad some water with no argument. I was wrong.
I had a visualization on page 117. When Winnie was describing the sky I could really viualize the hazy sun behind the treetops slowly going down. With silvery trees and blank blue it seemed beautiful.
Chapter:20Page:102Paragraph:3QuestionBigphillip says:While I was rading this book I questioned the following sentence. ' I came because I wanted to. I wondered whythe Tucks invited Winnie to their home? It was a if they were going to kidnap her but ended up not going through with it. I didn't really understand what they were doing.
On page 123 I made a star. I made it where in her head came the lines of an old poem. I thought the poem was meaningfull and that poem must have meant something to Winnie.
On page 132 I made a prediction. When Winnie used the water from the bottle on the toad I predicted She would go to the spring and get more. I was wrong. She never went back.
I sinthesized on page 138 when Tuck said "she's gone" I knew they were talking about Winnie and I knew that Jesse would be devastated.
Chapter:21
Page:107
Paragraph:2
Prediction
Bigphillip says:
As I was rading this book I predicted what is going to happen after the following sentance." You mean, if he dies," Winnie had said, flatly, and they had sat back, shocked". I predicted that the man will die and the wood would be that Foster's once again.
Chapter:22
Page:114
Paragraph:1
Determaning Something Important
Bigphillip says:
While I was reading the book I thought that the following sentence was important. "And then, no matter where you are, when you're seventeen, Winnie, you can drink it, and then come find us". I thought that this sentence was important because earlyer in the book it said the same thing a couple of times.
Chapter:23Page:116Paragraph:1VisualizationBigphillip says:As I was reading this book the following sentence created a metal picture in my mind. "It was the longest day: mindlessly hot, unspeakably hot, too hot to move or even think". In mymind I saw Winnie lying down on the grass, swetting, as the sun was beamming onto her face.
Chapter 24Page:124Paragraph:3
Determaning Something Important
Bigphillip says:While I was reading this book I thought that the following sentence was important. "The window frame sprang fre, and stil grasping it by the bars, he trumbled backward off the box". I thought that this was important because if Miles can excape out of prison then he can get Winnie out of prison as well.
Chapter 20
Page 101
When the constable asked Mae why she hit the man in the yellow suit, I had a question. It seemed like the constable didn't really care. Why? If i was the constable, I would be yelling at Mae and handcuffing her and stuff. They do that on cops...
Chapter:25
Page:129
Paragrapg:1
Connection
Bigphillip says:
While I was reading this book I had a connection with the folowing sentence. "She had heard first a bustling in the front of the jail, and smelled fresh coffee, and had sat up, stiff with apprehension". I know how fresh coffee smells because my parent drink coffee almost everyday, in the morning.
Chapter 21
Page 109
Where it says Winnie had killed a wasp once out of "fear and anger", I had a connection. When I got stung by a hornet once, I killed it by slapping it when it stung me. This helped me know what Winnie felt.
Chapter 23
Page 118
When Winnie was imagining what her family would say 3 hours before she switched places with Mae in the jail, I had a vizualization. I imagined my mom telling me not to bite my fingernails, don't interrupt people while they're talking, and not to "go down to the jailhouse at midnight to change places with prisoners."lol
Chapter 24
Page 122
When Winnie and Jessie were running to get to the jailhouse and the dog barked, I had a prediction. I thought that the dog knew that Winnie and the Tuck's were there, and the dog belonged to the constable. This led me to think that they would all get caught.
BASEBALL77:
I had a visualiziation on page103 when the constaple said "I got to take charge hear" I pictured him just watching the man on the ground and then peice by peice know whats going on
I had a question on page107 when the grandmother insisted it was elves I questioned why she insited it was elves.
I had a visualization on page 111 when Winnie went to the gate, I pictured her waited for some sighn of if the Tucks would be okay or not or just something to get her mind off of them.
I had a question on page 116 which was what did Winnie do on this "longest day ever"
I had a prediction that Winnnie would chicken out and not go and aboden the Tucks on page 121
Epilogue
Page:137
Paragraph:3
Prediction
Bigphillip says:
As I was reading this book I predicted what is going to happen next after the following sentence. "He knelt and read the inscription." I predicted that Tuck found Winnie's grave.
I had a question of did the constable really know it was Winnie the whole time on page128
I had a visualization of Winnie's gravestone and the Tucks looking at it on page138
Chapter 20:
On page 104 I made an inference where it said, "...Tuck stood staring, and Winnie could guess what he was thinking." My inference was he was standing and staring because he didn't want to see Winnie go. She had became good friends with him and even though he was a grown up, no one ever wants to see there friend leave them. Atleast I wouldn't!
i made a connection to winnie when there were 3 hours to something exciting but there was nothing to do for those 3 hours.
-ms.pufferpuffs
oh and the last one i did was on chpt 22. srry
Chapter 21:
On page 108 I made a connection where it said, "Things had happened to her that were hers alone..." I made a connection to when I was at camp. My friends and I would always say, "What happens at camp, stays at camp!" When I read that part of the book it made me think of that!
on page 126 i had a qeustion about the jail house. why didn't miles screw in the window?
-ms.pufferpuffs
Chapter 22:
On page 113 I made a prediction where it said, "...Jesse was there, crouching just on the other side of the fence." My prediction that I made was that he was going to ask Winnie to help them rescue Mae from the gallows. It seemed like he would only be at her house for that reason.
Epilogue:
On page 135 I had a visualization where it said, "...to shops and other places...: a hotdog stand; a dry cleaner; a pharmacy..." I could visualize it so well because to me it looked like how we live now. The stores around us, and places that are so close to walk to, it just was so easy to visualize the "new Treegap" perfectly!
Vid Gorton says...
Chapter 20
On page 104, I had a qusetion. Why did the constable look up heavenward and shake his head? Was he really annoyed becuse he thought that he was dealing with crazy people that thought that they could live forever?
Vid Gorton says...
Chapter 21
I had a connection on page 108. When Winnie was looking up at the sky she suddenly saw a flash of heat lightning. I made a connection to this because in the prolouge it was talking about lightning and storms.
Vid Gorton says...
Chapter 22
On page 114, I had a prediction. When Winnie said that she wanted to help save Mae from the jailhouse I predicted that something bad was going to happen.
Vid Gorton says...
Chapter 23
I had a inference on page 120. I infered that when Winnie woke up alarmed that she had slept through the time that she was sopposed to help.
Vid Gorton says...
Chapter 24
I put a star on the last sentence on page 126. I put a star there becuse i thought that it was important that the Tucks had gotten away safely.
Chapter 23
On page 116 I had connection in the first sentence. I felt that way when I was in china. It was soooo hot! But i still had walk to some place for lunch.
Vid Gorton says...
Chapter 25
I had a visuilization on page 132. I could clearly imagine Winnie leting the newly immortal toad be set free. I really liked the way the author dicided to end the story.
On chapter 22 page 114 I had visualization of how Winnie would look like if she wrapped in a blanket.
Vid Gorton says...
Epilouge
I had a inference on page 137 in the epilouge. I infered that when Tuck wandered into the graveyard he wanted to find out if Winnie had drinken the spring water that Jesse gave her. I really liked this book. I think that it is very intreseting, funny, surprising and meaningful.
Olga Kiev says:
I infered that Winnie's check was pressed into tucks chest because she was scared that the man in the yellow suit would not make it. Cause Mae hit him with the butt end of the shotgun.
Olga Kiev says:
I predicted that Winnie would see the toad again because every time she goes over to the fence she always sees thwe toad.
Olga Kiev says:
I infered that it was easy for Winnie to leave the house because she had done it once already.
Chap:23 When Winnie was escaping I could really visualize the night. With the silver tipped trees, the clouds and the moon. I could also visualize Jesse waiting at the gate as Winnie went outside.
Chap:24 When Winnie was wondering why Miles wasn't pulling on the grate window I was wondering why also. It turns out that he just wanted to wait for the thunder so that nobody heard them getting Mae out of the jail.
Chap:25 When Winnie's family was questioning her why she had got Mae out of jail I made a connection when she started sobbing and even thought she she knew her family didn't understand she wanted to be with them.
chapter 20 page 101 line 7 What does ain't mean?
In chapter 20 on page 104 I had a connection when Winnie says "Mr. Tuck don't worry everything will be all right." I remember someone saying that earlier in the book. The someone I don't remember though.
Epilogue: When Mae and Tuck came into town I thought that Winnie had drunk some of the spring water and she had married Jesse. It turns out that she didn't drink the spring, got married to another person and had kids. Then she had died two years before the epilogue had taken place.
chapter 20:
on page 101 i wonded why the constable thought the man in the yellow suit could still be alive when he was sht in the back of the head. i later found ut that the man in the yellow suit got hit in the back of the head not shot.
In chapter 21 page 110 I had a visulization of Winnie killing the wasp with the book.
chapter 21 page 107 line 1 I infered when Winnies grand mother said "It was the elves. We heard them. They must have bewitched her." I infered that her grandmother might just be a tad delusionel.
Chapter 21:
On page 110, why was Winnie concerned about Mae Tuck going to the gallows if Mae could live forver and never die or get hurt. I think this might have happened because it never popped into her head.
In chapter 22 on page 113 I had a question about where the toad went when Winnie came back outside.
Chapter 20--on page 102 I had a text to text connection. In another book that I read, the person who got kidnapped also stood up for the "kidnappers" because they had become friends after all also.
Chapter 22 page 111 line 2 I could vizualize the hot sun gleaming and shining very hard.
On page 105 I had a prediction that they were somehow going to save Mae Tuck from getting hanged but it would be at very last minute. I did not yet know how they were going to save her yet though.
Chapter 22:
On page 114, why did Jesse give Winnie the water bottle if Winnie owned the woods and could just go get some water from the spring instead of drinking from the water bottle. Maybe this happened because Jesse thought she wouldn't get a chance to go back to the spring.
On page 177 Chapter 23 I had a visulization of the wind making Winnie harder to breath.
Chapter 23:
On page 118, when Winnie was wondering about an excuse for running away a second time and she thought of the excuse "you never said I couldn't" it reminded me of the time I used that excuse and got in more trouble for what I did (and the other time and the other time).
Chapter 23 page 116 line 2 I had a connection when it said mindlesly hot, unspeakably hot, to hot to move or even think I had a connection to those words because in camp last year there was a day were things were just like the discription in the story.
On page 111 I had an inference when Winnie's parents asked her to come inside when she got hot outside that she was not too annoyed that they were keeping a close eye on her as always because she had just gotten kidnapped and I think that she understands why they want her to come in. Because they dont want anything bad happening to her.
In chapter 24 page 125 I had a prediction that Miles wouldn't put back the nails. I was right.
chapter 24 page 122 line 1 I predicted that Winnie wouldn't come back home and she would run away with Jesse.
In the Epilogue on page 35 I had a visualization of the new and improved Treegap. I could see that the town was pretty fancy. I could picture shops that were lined up on either sides of the streets and they all had coloful awnings on them. The hotel was a big tall building with Treegap Hotel on the red bricks.
In chapter 25 page 128 I had a connection to Winnie's summerization because I have made summerizations before with the marginalia and think alouds.
Chapter 24:
I had a connection with this chapter because it mentioned how close the storm was coming, and usually when there is a big storm coming I try to find out how close it is and when it will get here.
Chapter 25:
on page 133, i had a question did Winnie choose to live for ever or not. i foud out in the epilogue that she decided to die
on the last page in the book, i made an inference:
mae tuck saw a frog sitting by the side of the road and said "that toad must think hes gonna live forever" i nfered it was the same taod winnie had poured the water on. i wonder if the tucks will ever find that out
after winnie helped mae escape, she said thhat kids came to talk to her . i infered that before kids had been afraid of the touch-me-not cottage and thought winnie was haughty too. i bet winnie had no friends at school.i could also vis. the kids poking hands through the fence
Page: 106
Sentence: "The rocking chair had been given to her when she wasvery small..."
Question
I wondered who had given Winnie the rocking chair.I thoguht maybe the rocking chair was givenn to her by her grandma and that maybe the rocking chair had something to do with the story.
On page 109 I thought it was important that the man in the yellow suit died so I put a star there.If he didn't die than Mae wouldn't go to jail and Winnie wouldn't get in more trouble,and he might recover and sell the water.
I had a infrence on page 115 when Jesse gave Winnie the water.I thought that she wanted very much to be with Jesse but I think that she will think about what Tuck told her and decide not to drink the water.
Page:111
Sentence: "... It was the hottest day yet.."
Prediction
I predicted that Winnies mom and her grandma werent going to tell Winnie to "come in before she faints", i thought they were going to give her some space after all thats happened.
In the beggining of page 117 I had a connection to my Grandparents house in Flordia.They have a big Grandfather clock that ticks really loud and two rocking chairs near it.My cousins and I usally rock to the rythmn of the clock.
the book, SUPER SUMMERIZED:
tuck everlasting is about a girl who meets a family wo drank from a spring and now live forever. the girl befriends with the family, and learns they dont like living forever she agrees to keep their secret.they find out somebody wants to sell the spring and have winnie drink the water, the family kills him. the girl helps the get out of jail...a little later she is given some water from the spting.in the end she pours it on a toad
the book tuck everlastinng reminded me a little of the book "turnabout"
Page: 116
Sentence: "It was the longest day: mindlessly hot, unspeakably hot, too hot to even think. The countryside, the village of Treegap, the wood- all lay defeated....The sun was a ponderous circle without edges, a roar without a sound, a lazing glare so thorough and remorseless that even in the Fosters' parlor, with curtains drawn, it seemed an actual presence. you could not shut it out."
Visualization
Page: 116
Sentence: "It was the longest day: mindlessly hot, unspeakably hot, too hot to even think. The countryside, the village of Treegap, the wood- all lay defeated....The sun was a ponderous circle without edges, a roar without a sound, a lazing glare so thorough and remorseless that even in the Fosters' parlor, with curtains drawn, it seemed an actual presence. you could not shut it out."
Visualization
I could really visualize how hot it was in Treegap with the sun very high and all of the fosters sitting in their own swet.It was truly a magnificent vision.
I had a visualization on page 122.I can imagine the empty stores with only the streetlights providing light in the pitch-black night,and nobody outside.
Page 121
Sentence " ...she could slip out night after night without their real knowing"
Prediction
I predicted that Winnie might try to sneak out night after night, but one night she will get caught and get sent to live somewhere else , like with an aunt.
I had a infrence on page 129 that her family wasn't going to trust her any more after she snuck out two time so if she went to the spring than her family might follow her and find out.
I thought a important fact was that the tucks were gone just like that
I had a connection when it said the grandfather clock chimmed 11 i have a clock like that
I had a question when it said that she was a dear mother dear wife because didn't she love jesse?
I had a inferance was that when Jesse gave winnie a option to run away with him when she became 17 I infered that he had feelings for him
Hi
on page 112 i had a question about why the grandma didnt want to leave the toad a drop of the water? She said that they were gonna treat the toad like an "Egg" so wouldnt you help it live forever so it doesnt get hurt?
I had a visulization when winnie pulled out the puny little rocking chair i could just see my little cousin pulling out my rocking chair and pretending she was a mom with a little dolly in her little hands and she would rock; back and forth and shhhhh everyone!
on page 116 i could just visualize that HOT, hazy, long day!
I had a question on page 104 why did they want to hang outon the gallows?
Summarizing Tuck Everlasting:
Mae Tuck went out one day to meet her kids. While in the meantime, Winnifred (Winnie) Foster an 11 year old decides to runaway. She eventually runs away from her overprotective family and One night, a man in the yellow suit comes up to her and asks if she knows everyone at the wood. Winnie says she doesn't.But that her grandmother would. They hear a music box, and the man leaves. The next day, Winnie enters the wood to a place she'd never seen before.She introduces herself to a boy at the spring and asked for some water he took her to his house and his family told them about the situation that they found out, they could live forever if they drank water from the spring. She ends up staying in their house and basically being part of the family but one day the man in the yellow suit came back to the tucks house this time and said that he wanted the fosters wood and the spring. the fosters took a ride into town the next morning and talked about it more with winnie. Unfortunitally the man in the yellow suit heard every word they said and that he would buy the spring and sell it to " certain (special) people that deserve to live forever. mae said they wouldn't be demonstration and he starts to take Winnie away, but Mae Tuck hits him with a shotgun. The constable arrives and takes Mae to the jailhouse. A few days later, after the constable took Winnie home, Winnie finds out that the man in the yellow suit died, so Mae was going to be hung.In the middle of the night a few days later during a storm, Winnie climbs into the jailhouse and switches places with Mae, and the Tucks get away. The Next morning the constable sees her instead of Mae and they take her home again. then when she gets home she gives her friend, the toad someof the water so that he wont get run over and die. this way the toad will live forever*. Many years later, Winnie dies, choosing not to go with Jesse's offering to live forever.by drinking a bottle of water from the spring. And Mae still hasn't been caught.
*was it a good idea maybe but it seems like thebook starts all over again with the toad!
Rossumrome says...
On page 101 of chapter 20, I could really visualize Winnie with her arms wrapped around Tuck. Right away, I could see her frightened face without Natalie Babbitt even showing it. I pictured her cheaks pink and her eyes squeezed shut. She was breathing heavily and didn't want to look at anything.
Rossumrome says...
On page 109 of chapter 21, I thought that when the constable said that the man in the yellow suit was dead, it was really important. The reason why it's good is that then he wouldn't let anyone else know about the spring. But what would happen to Mae? If Mae were to be hanged, then she still wouldn't die. So then the people will know about the spring. I had a lot of these thoughts running through my head at the time I read this!
Rossumrome says...
I had a connection on page 111 in chapter 22. It was a really hot day and dry. When Babbitt said "the slightest exertion broughton a flood of perspiration, an exhaustion in the joints." I really liked how she said that especially the vocabulary. That made me think of the hot days here in the summer. It can get really hot!
Rossumrome says...
On page 117 of chapter 23, I had a connection with Winnie. I remember when I was little and it was too quiet to even concentrate. At first, you would think it was too loud and you wanted everything to be silent. But then it was too quiet! I find that now, I can work best when everything is quiet!
Rossumrome says...
On page 123 of chapter 24 I had a question. My question was if the constable would find out about the Tucks saving Mae. This got me thinking, I thought that he wasn't going to find out and that the Tucks would leave to a faraway place. I'll read more to find out!
Rossumrome says...
On page 129 of chapter 25 I could really visualize the constable. He was cheerful at first and whistling but when he saw Winnie, his face turned bright red with anger. I liked how Babbitt said that he was really cheerful in the beginning because it showed how angry he was when he saw Winnie.
Rosuumrome says...
On page 139 of the Epilogue, I had a connection. I remembered the toad from before and how Winnie poured the water from the spring on it. At the end of the book, I was surprised that Winnie didn't drink from the spring!
In chapter 24 I could visualize the constables face when he saw Winne under the covers.
In the Epilogue I had a connection to Tuck when he saw Winnie's grave. He must have felt like "so thats what happened"
What does everyone here like better? Tuck Everlasting or the Giver? Will we have a different book later? Oh well, i bet no one is going to come back here and see this comment.
Hello. Wow I forgot so much about think alouds that it took me ten minutes to find how to post a comment (it's embarising) anyways it's been a good school year and it's weird to look back at all these comments and see what people said. Well nice meetin' you on Team 6-4. Au revoir et Bonnes vacances! (Goodbye and have a great vacation.)
Crabcake I like the Giver better because it shows that you can have utopia just at the price of pleasure.
I agree
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