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Evaluate general reading comprehension and support the development of critical thinking and craft analysis skills with this bundle of formative assessments covering Act 3 of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. A plot-based quiz, six close reading worksheets (one per scene), a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these activities, students will:

• Identify what the text states both explicitly and implicitly
• Define challenging words as they are used in the text
• Explore cause-and-effect relationships
• Discern tone in context
• Determine the function of given details
• Examine how characters think, behave, interact, and develop
• Compare characters in the play
• Analyze Shakespeare’s incorporation of religious imagery to articulate what it implies about Macbeth
• Apply knowledge of literary devices such as allusion, metaphor, euphemism, hyperbole, allusion, callback, situational irony, and more
• Consider the symbolism of sleep, diamonds, and an extinguished light in context
• Make logical inferences about Elizabethan culture and its perspective on the supernatural
• Support inferences and claims with sound reasoning and relevant evidence
• Write about Shakespearean drama with clarity, accuracy, and precision