Tuck Everlasting Novel Unit ~ Activities, Handouts, Tests ~ Printable & Google

This is a teaching unit for the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. This unit contains ready-made, Common-Core-aligned handouts to accompany this book. These handouts will require students to analyze the author’s craft and literary elements such as propaganda, conflict, symbolism, and irony. A poem is even included for analysis. All of this is available in both printable and Google formats!

There are three tests, a reader’s theater, as well as writing assignments (rubrics included) and post reading activities. Take a look at the table of contents below to see the focus of each chapter.

Everything is ready for you to teach, and the best part is that once you purchase this unit, you can reuse it every year!

Table of Contents

Pre-Reading Activity

Chapter Titles

Chapters 1 & 2 ~ Personification to Create Imagery

Chapters 3 & 4 ~ Imagery

Chapters 5 & 6 ~ Conflict, Onomatopoeia, Similes

After Chapter 5 ~ Point of View

Chapters 7 & 8 ~ Creating a Comic Strip

Test ~ Chapters 1-8

Answer Key Chapters 1-8

Chapters 9 & 10 ~ Context Clues, Discussion, Venn-diagram

Chapters 11 & 12 ~ Symbolism, Dialect and Dialogue

After Chapter 12 ~ Imagery & Figurative Language

to Artwork

Chapters 13 & 14 ~ Readers’ Theater

Chapters 15 & 16 ~ Irony

Test ~ Chapters 9-16

Answer Key Chapters 9-16

Chapters 17 & 18 ~ Strong and Vivid Verbs

Chapter 19 ~ Discussion

Chapter 19 ~ Propaganda, Advertisement Project

Chapters 20, 21 & 22 ~ Poetry Writing

Chapters 23 & 24 ~ Poetry Analysis

Chapter 25 & Epilogue ~ Silent Passage Analysis

Theme

Writing Opportunity ~ News Report

Who’s Who When it Comes to Characters

Writing a Cinquain

Literary Elements Scavenger Hunt

Final Test

Answer Key Chapter 17-Epilogue