Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 3 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:
- abate
- abide
- aby
- adder
- auditor
- bequeath
- bully
- burr
- chide
- consecrate
- contrive
- derision
- extort
- gambol
- gleek
- juggler
- lament
- odious
- parlous
- spurn
- recreant
- welkin
- wot
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Use this low-prep bundle to eliminate assessment-planning responsibilities and help high school readers engage meaningfully with William Shakespeare's comedy *A Midsummer Night's Dream*. Plot-based quizzes (one per Act), vocabulary development activities (three per Act), close reading analysis worksheets (one per scene), a final exam, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. With these activities and assessments, students will do the following: * Read for literal comprehension * Infer the intended effects of Shakespeare's word choices and figurative language * Consider what the given excerpt reflects about Shakespeare's mindset * Describe tone in context * Determine the functions of given details/excerpts * Explore how characters think, behave, interact, and develop * Compare and contrast characters * Evaluate whether Oberon's use of magic is beneficial in any way * Evaluate how the term paramour (as it is used in the text) is applicable to the character of Bottom * Identify the intended audience of Puck's concluding speech (epilogue) * Apply knowledge of literary devices such as allusion, assonance, dramatic irony, euphemism, epiphany, hyperbole, malapropism, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, simile, situational irony, symbolism, verbal irony, and more * Conduct research as needed to answer questions about mythological, historical, and literary figures (Hecate, Tartar, and Robin Goodfellow) * Consider themes in context * Generate an essay articulating a significant theme and exploring how it is developed over the course of the play * Support inferences and claims with sound reasoning and relevant evidence * Write about Shakespearean drama with clarity, accuracy, and precision
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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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