Dracula Quiz, Close Reading, Vocabulary Development, Test, and Answer Key Bundle
Eliminate assessment planning responsibilities with this comprehensive bundle for teaching Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. Included are the following: eight plot-based quizzes, eight vocabulary application activities, eight crossword puzzles, twenty-seven close reading analysis worksheets, an end-of-unit test (with test prep guide), the public domain novel, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive bundle option is available.) More detailed information follows.
Vocabulary Games and Activities: Frontload assigned readings with vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of the novel. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. By engaging with these materials, 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
Plot-Based Quizzes: Evaluate general reading comprehension and hold students accountable for completing assigned readings. Alternatively, the quizzes may serve as guided reading handouts to facilitate purposeful engagement with literature. By engaging with these materials, students will:
Demonstrate generalized knowledge of characters
Demonstrate generalized knowledge of settings
Demonstrate generalized knowledge of conflicts
Close Reading Analysis Worksheets: Go beyond general reading comprehension and support the development of close reading analysis skills with this set of rigorous activities (one for each chapter). By engaging with these materials, students will:
Identify what the text says both explicitly and implicitly
Determine the function of a given excerpt
Explore how setting contributes to mood
Describe the tone of given excerpts
Discern the intended effects of the author's narrative techniques
Examine how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop
Compare and contrast characters
Apply knowledge of literary devices including situational irony, verbal irony, dramatic irony, foreshadowing, metaphor, oxymoron, epiphany, and more
Conduct brief research on topics relevant to the novel
Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence
Write about Gothic literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision
Summative Test: Evaluate recall of plot and analysis of characters with this assessment, which includes a test prep guide and Common Core-aligned rubric for evaluating essay writing. In addition to applying knowledge of characters, settings, and conflicts, students will draft a five-paragraph essay about the effects of fear and curiosity on a character in the story.
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