Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 3 of William Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear. 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.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: affliction, alack, aroint, avaunt, boast, caitiff, cur, enkindle, festinate, fie, filial, flibbertigibbet, heretic, ignobly, impetuous, infirm, judicious, malady, pernicious, perpetual, pinion, privily, quagmire, repent, reprovable, rotundity, scarcely, shun, subdued, superflux, thrice, wail, and yeoman.
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
- Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
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Shakespeare's King Lear Vocabulary Games (Bundle)
Help high school students navigate William Shakespeare's language with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of *King Lear*. 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 153 words are addressed: abate, abhorred, adder, affect, affliction, aidant, alack, alteration, amities, anon, apothecary, apt, aroint, arraign, attaint, auricular, auspicious, avaunt, avouch, barbarous, baseness, beggarly, beguile, benediction, bereaved, beseech, bestow, boast, boon, braggart, caitiff, censure, chide, clamour, conjure, counsel, countenance, cowish, coxcomb, cur, daub, dearth, dejected, descend, descry, diligent, disbranch, discord, disposition, dissuade, dog-hearted, dower, dullard, ebb, eminence, enkindle, entreat, esperance, exalt, fain, falchion, festinate, fie, filial, finical, flibbertigibbet, foppery, forbear, forfended, forlorn, fortnight, fraught, gait, gilded, gossamer, hark, haste, hasten, heinous, heretic, ignobly, impetuous, indignation, infirm, insolent, jarring, jovial, judicious, knave, lameness, lily-livered, machination, malady, malice, manifold, mar, maugre, oeillades, parricide, patrimony, penury, pernicious, perpetual, pilgrimage, pinion, plight, prithee, privily, propinquity, puissant, quagmire, queasy, raiment, rash, reciprocal, remediate, renounce, repent, reposal, repose, reprieve, reprovable, retinue, reverence, rotundity, ruffian, saucy, scarcely, scourge, scurvy, shun, simper, sirrah, sojourn, squiny, strife, subdued, superfluous, superflux, tarry, temperance, thrice, treachery, trifle, usurp, vain, valiant, wagtail, wail, wherefore, withal, woeful, and yeoman. 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 * Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
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King Lear Act 3 Quiz, Vocabulary Games, and Close Reading Inference Worksheets
Help high school students navigate Shakespearean language, comprehend plot developments, and sharpen critical thinking and craft analysis skills with this bundle of worksheets and assessments covering Act 3 of William Shakespeare's *King Lear*. One plot-based quiz, one vocabulary application activity, one word search game, one crossword puzzle, seven close reading inference worksheets (one per scene), and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these activities, students will do the following: * Read for literal comprehension * Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed * Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences * Describe tone in context * Determine the primary functions of given excerpts or scenes * Explore how characters think, behave, interact, and develop * Compare two characters in the play (Edgar and Edmund) * Apply knowledge of literary devices including assonance, hyperbole, personification, paradox, metaphor, verbal irony, dramatic irony, situational irony, and apheresis * Conduct brief research on pelicans to better understand their symbolic value in context ("pelican daughters") * Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence * Write about Shakespearean drama with clarity, accuracy, and precision * Come to class better prepared to discuss Shakespeare's plays
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