Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapters 16, 17, and 18 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. 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: acrimonious, affluent, ambidextrous, amiable, concede, eccentricity, elucidate, evoke, genially, haughty, mollify, serene, shrill, strenuous, sulk, tedious, unobtrusive, and weary.
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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To Kill a Mockingbird Chs. 16-18 Quiz & Close Reading Bundle
Save time and maintain rigor with these printable resources supporting reading comprehension and analysis of *To Kill a Mockingbird* by Harper Lee (chapters 16-18). General comprehension quizzes are included, as are more rigorous close reading activities. These materials may be used to facilitate differentiated instruction in the classroom. Answer keys are provided. This resource may serve as the basis for small-group discussions. Through these discussions, students decode language and pose/respond to questions relating to plot, broad topics, and character development, demonstrating an ability to analyze how complex characters transform and advance the plot and themes by applying logic and citing compelling, meaningful textual evidence. They will also evaluate their peers’ reasoning and use of rhetoric to advance claims, clarifying or challenging unclear ideas. Using this resource for structured guidance, students will present information, conclusions, and supporting textual evidence clearly, concisely, and appropriately, thereby helping their peers comprehend their thinking. Copyright restrictions prohibit the inclusion of the complete literary works, so the purchaser is responsible for providing students with access to the novel. By engaging in these exercises, students will: * Draw logical inferences about Scout's dynamic nature in context * Draw logical inferences about Aunt Alexandra's concerns for her family's reputation * Apply knowledge of figurative language to the text, identifying the most logical interpretation of a metaphorical phrase * Apply knowledge of hyperbole to the text * Identify what Aunt Alexandra states explicitly about being a "disgrace to the family" * Identify what Maudie Atkinson states explicitly about why she refuses to attend the trial * Discern the meaning of complex vocabulary and phrases in context, taking into consideration both denotative definitions and connotative associations * Analyze the significance of the kids' placement on the balcony * Analyze the characterization of Jem and Scout to discern the most accurate statement about their internal states * Analyze the author’s craft with emphasis on the intended effect of metaphorical language (comparing Bob to “a red little rooster”) * Analyze the interactions between Atticus and Mayella to draw logical inferences about Mayella’s personal history * Analyze Bob Ewell’s nonverbal communication to draw logical inferences about his intent * Analyze Atticus Finch’s language to draw a logical inference about his intent * Isolate false statements from factual ones * Write with clarity, logic, and precision
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To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary Games and Activities Bundle
Frontload assigned readings with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of Harper Lee's novel *To Kill a Mockingbird*. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 13 vocabulary application activities, 13 crossword puzzles, 13 word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. A total of 203 challenging words are addressed: aberrations, abominable, accost, acquiescence, acquittal, acrimonious, adjourn, affluent, aloof, altercation, ambidextrous, amiable, apoplectic, apothecary, appalling, appeal, apprehension, arbitrate, ascertaining, assuage, auspicious, austere, begrudge, benign, bestow, bewilderment, bide, blandly, bleakly, brevity, burdensome, caliber, candid, clad, cleave, commotion, competent, concede, condescension, connive, contemptuous, contentious, convey, corroborative, cowardice, credibility, crude, curt, dainty, denunciation, desolate, diligently, diminutive, discreet, dismay, dreary, duress, eccentricity, editorial, eerily, elucidate, elude, elusive, escapade, evident, evoke, expunge, farthest, fatalistic, feeble, feral, florid, foolhardy, formidable, fretfully, frivolous, furtive, futility, garish, genially, grudge, guilelessness, habiliments, haughty, hearty, hone, idle, illicit, impassive, impertinence, imprudent, incantation, inconspicuous, indict, indigenous, indignant, industrious, infallible, inordinately, inquire, inquisitive, instinctively, iota, irascible, jim-dandy, keenly, libel, malevolent, mausoleum, meditations, meditative, meekly, melancholy, mercifully, meteorological, mollify, morbid, mournfully, murmur, mutter, myopic, nebulous, nondescript, notoriety, obliquely, oblivious, obscure, oppressive, ordeals, palliation, passe, peeved, pensive, perforated, perpetual, perpetuate, persecution, pestilence, pilgrimage, placid, predilection, prerogative, procure, propensity, providence, prowess, purloin, quaint, qualm, ramshackle, rankle, rectitude, reluctantly, reprimand, resolve, reverent, ruefully, scowl, scurry, serene, shrill, sibilant, skulk, sneer, solitary, spurious, stealthily, sternness, stolidly, strenuous, subdued, subtlety, succinct, sulk, tacit, taciturn, tactful, tedious, temerity, timid, tirade, touchous, tranquil, trousseau, trudge, turmoil, tyranny, umbrage, uncouth, undulate, unobtrusive, untrammeled, vague, vapid, varmint, vehemently, venerable, vivid, volition, wary, weary, woes, and wrathfully. 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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