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Use these vocabulary enrichment activities covering Walter Dean Myers’ Fallen Angels to frontload assigned readings and enhance comprehension of plot. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the novel during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 6 definition handouts, 6 crossword puzzles, 6 word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.

Ninety-one words/concepts are addressed: adhesions, agitate, ambush, armorer, artillery, AWOL, barrage, battalion, bayonet, beckon, bivouac, cache, chaplain, charred, chortle, contingent, cordite, correspondent, cosmolene, cot, crimson, DDT, dreary, drone, fatigues, flail, flitter, formaldehyde, foxhole, frag, gale, giblet, giddy, gruff, guerrilla, hamlet, hemophilia, hemorrhoids, hoarsely, hooch, hymn, impassively, infiltrate, insignia, interdiction, intricate, jive, latrine, malaria, menacing, merciful, mill, mortar, napalm, non-denominational, pacify, paddy, perm, phosphorus, piaster, plasma, projectile, protrusion, racket, reconnaissance, regiment, requisition, reverent, rickety, ricochet, salve, sheepish, shelling, shrapnel, skirmish, smirk, sniper, sporadic, stamina, stationery, stewardess, sullen, surveillance, Tet, thatched, The Shirelles, theology, tracer, truce, veer, and vigilance.