Macbeth Vocabulary Games for High School Bundle (Crosswords, Word Searches)

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Help high school students navigate William Shakespeare’s language with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of Macbeth. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 5 vocabulary application activities, 5 crossword puzzles, 5 word search games, and answer keys. Materials 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
• Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences

A total of 121 words are addressed: abide, abjure, affliction, anon, appease, arbitrate, avaricious, avaunt, avouch, aweary, bait, bane, barren, beldam, benison, bent, bestow, blaspheme, boast, bodement, bough, brainsickly, broil, buffet, chastise, cherubin, clamor, commend, compunctious, concord, consort, deftly, desolate, dispatch, doff, dun, entreat, ere, fain, false, fantastical, firstling, fitful, foison, fry, gild, glare, gout, groom, harbinger, haste, hew, hie, holily, homely, hurly-burly, husbandry, implore, impress, incarnadine, industrious, infirm, intrenchant, kern, largess, liege, lily-livered, loon, malice, marrowless, metaphysical, mettle, mortal, mortified, multitudinous, muse, naught, obscure, pain, palpable, parricide, perchance, perilous, pernicious, pine, pious, posset, prithee, prowess, purgative, quarrel, quoth, rabble, rapt, raze, rebuke, reign, relish, repose, rue, saucy, scarcely, shadow, sirrah, sleight, spongy, stanchless, stealthy, stern, suborn, summon, swift, tarry, thither, thriftless, timely, toil, treachery, unrough, verity, and woeful.

Materials are available for teaching a variety of texts such as:

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• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Feed by M.T. Anderson
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
• The Adventures of Ulysses by Bernard Evslin
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
• The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells