Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapter 9 of Lord of the Flies by William Golding. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: cascade, complementary, corpulent, governable, meekly, minutely, pitilessly, primly, saunter, steadfast, unendurable, and ungainly.
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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Lord of the Flies Vocabulary Development Games and Activities for High School
Frontload assigned readings with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of William Golding's novel *Lord of the Flies*. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 12 vocabulary application activities, 12 crossword puzzles, 12 word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. A total of 132 challenging words are addressed: abruptly, antagonism, aromatic, assent, barmy, befoul, bleakly, bough, brandish, bravado, brooding, cascade, ceaseless, clamber, clamor, coarse, complementary, contemptuously, continual, continuous, conviction, corpulent, crepitation, crestfallen, curtly, cynically, dart, daunting, declivity, decorous, derisive, diffidently, dreary, dun, earnestly, ebullience, eccentric, effect, effigy, elephantine, embroiled, emphatic, enmity, ensconce, exult, farthest, feeble, ferocity, fervor, festoon, flare, fleeting, flinch, flitter, flourish, furtive, gaudy, gesticulate, glower, goad, governable, grim, illusive, impervious, incredulous, indignation, ineffectual, inexpertly, inimical, inscrutable, intently, interrogative, iridescent, jeeringly, lamentation, lavatory, leaden, leviathan, liberation, luminous, meekly, minutely, multitudinous, murmur, mutinously, mutter, nimble, obscurity, oppressive, pallidly, pallor, pitilessly, primly, proffer, propitiatingly, quench, rebuke, relentlessly, saunter, scowl, scurry, sensibly, serenade, shrill, shudder, sneer, sodden, solemn, splutter, steadfast, strident, stupendous, subdued, tacit, theological, torrid, tottery, tremulous, ululation, unendurable, ungainly, ungraspable, unhandily, vague, vexed, vicissitude, vivid, wary, waxy, weary, wield, and woebegone. 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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Lord of the Flies Chapter 9 Quiz, Close Reading, and Vocabulary Games Bundle
Evaluate reading comprehension, facilitate vocabulary development, and support the development of critical thinking skills with this bundle of resources for teaching *Lord of the Flies* by William Golding (chapter 9). A plot-based quiz, a close reading analysis worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in printable Word Document and PDF formats. This resource may serve as the basis for small-group discussions in which students decode language and pose/respond to questions relating to plot, broad topics, and character development. Using this resource for structured guidance, students will improve their ability to present information, conclusions, and supporting textual evidence clearly and convincingly. By engaging with this resource, students will: * Discern what the text states explicitly and implicitly * Analyze how complex characters interact and develop * Define complex words and phrases in context * Apply knowledge of various literary devices (metaphor, personification, and oxymoron) * Articulate how details associated with heat contribute to the development of both plot and character * Analyze the author's language to determine what it implies about a given character * Identify several chapter details that contribute to Jack’s deified characterization * Identify several chapter details that contribute to Piggy and Ralph’s loss of discipline * Explain how a given passage honors and dignifies the character of Simon after his death * Write with clarity and precision
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