Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers Vocabulary Activities Bundle for High School

Use these vocabulary enrichment activities covering Walter Dean Myers' Fallen Angels to frontload assigned readings and enhance comprehension of plot. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the novel during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 6 definition handouts, 6 crossword puzzles, 6 word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (A Google Drive bundle option is also available.)

Ninety-one words/concepts are addressed: adhesions, agitate, ambush, armorer, artillery, AWOL, barrage, battalion, bayonet, beckon, bivouac, cache, chaplain, charred, chortle, contingent, cordite, correspondent, cosmolene, cot, crimson, DDT, dreary, drone, fatigues, flail, flitter, formaldehyde, foxhole, frag, gale, giblet, giddy, gruff, guerrilla, hamlet, hemophilia, hemorrhoids, hoarsely, hooch, hymn, impassively, infiltrate, insignia, interdiction, intricate, jive, latrine, malaria, menacing, merciful, mill, mortar, napalm, non-denominational, pacify, paddy, perm, phosphorus, piaster, plasma, projectile, protrusion, racket, reconnaissance, regiment, requisition, reverent, rickety, ricochet, salve, sheepish, shelling, shrapnel, skirmish, smirk, sniper, sporadic, stamina, stationery, stewardess, sullen, surveillance, Tet, thatched, The Shirelles, theology, tracer, truce, veer, and vigilance.

Resources are available for a variety of other engaging novels:

• 1984 by George Orwell - Google and printable

• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - Google and printable

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Google and printable

• Feed by M.T. Anderson - Google and printable

• Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer - Google and printable

• The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells - Google and printable

* This resource is also included in a whole store growing bundle.