Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 1 of William Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
By engaging with these activities, students will determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words, consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings, and discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed:
- altar
- avouch
- beguiled
- beseech
- betwixt
- condole
- dote
- dowager
- entreat
- feign
- filched
- fruitless
- haste
- mewed
- mirth
- nuptial
- pert
- pomp
- stepdame
- tailor
- unheedy
- visage
- waggish
- woo
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A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 1 Quiz, Analysis Worksheets, and Vocabulary Games
Help students navigate Shakespeare's vocabulary, demonstrate basic reading comprehension, analyze plot, and explore literary elements with this bundle of formative assessments covering Act 1 of Shakespeare's comedy *A Midsummer Night's Dream*. A plot-based quiz, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, two close reading worksheets (one per scene), and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these activities, students will: * Read for literal comprehension * Infer the intended effects of Shakespeare's word choices and figurative language * Activate prior knowledge * Define words as they are used in the text * Determine the function of a given scene * Describe tone in context * Explore how characters think, behave, interact, and develop * Contrast Quince's intellect with that of other characters * Apply knowledge of literary devices such as allusion, euphemism, malapropism, metaphor, personification, simile, situational irony, and more * Write about Shakespearean works with clarity, accuracy, and precision * Support inferences and claims with sound reasoning and relevant evidence * Come to class better prepared for discussions
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Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Vocabulary Activities Bundle
Help students navigate William Shakespeare's language with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of *A Midsummer Night's Dream*. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the play during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 5 vocabulary application activities, 5 crossword puzzles, 5 word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. A total of 112 words are addressed: abate, abide, aby, adder, alack, altar, amends, amiable, amity, anon, audacious, auditor, avouch, beggary, beguile, bequeath, beseech, beshrew, betrothed, betwixt, bewail, bully, burr, changeling, chide, clamorous, concord, condole, consecrate, contrive, coronet, coy, dame, derision, dewlap, discord, dole, dote, dowager, dulcet, enmity, entreat, eunuch, expound, extort, feign, fie, filched, flout, fond, fortnight, frolic, fruitless, gait, gallant, gambol, gleek, griffin, habitation, haste, hoard, hue, imbrue, impeach, jollity, juggler, lament, languish, lob, mantle, mark, mewed, mirth, mote, murrion, naught, neaf, nuptial, odious, palpable, paragon, parlous, perchance, pert, pomp, prodigious, provender, quell, recreant, repent, reremice, rude, sprite, spurn, stepdame, swoon, tailor, tedious, toil, tunable, unheedy, venturous, vexation, virtuous, visage, waggish, wane, welkin, wherefore, woe, woo, and wot.
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