Shakespeare's King Lear Vocabulary Games for High School (Bundle)

Help high school students navigate William Shakespeare's language with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of King Lear. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the play during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 5 vocabulary application activities, 5 crossword puzzles, 5 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.) 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 153 words are addressed: abate, abhorred, adder, affect, affliction, aidant, alack, alteration, amities, anon, apothecary, apt, aroint, arraign, attaint, auricular, auspicious, avaunt, avouch, barbarous, baseness, beggarly, beguile, benediction, bereaved, beseech, bestow, boast, boon, braggart, caitiff, censure, chide, clamour, conjure, counsel, countenance, cowish, coxcomb, cur, daub, dearth, dejected, descend, descry, diligent, disbranch, discord, disposition, dissuade, dog-hearted, dower, dullard, ebb, eminence, enkindle, entreat, esperance, exalt, fain, falchion, festinate, fie, filial, finical, flibbertigibbet, foppery, forbear, forfended, forlorn, fortnight, fraught, gait, gilded, gossamer, hark, haste, hasten, heinous, heretic, ignobly, impetuous, indignation, infirm, insolent, jarring, jovial, judicious, knave, lameness, lily-livered, machination, malady, malice, manifold, mar, maugre, oeillades, parricide, patrimony, penury, pernicious, perpetual, pilgrimage, pinion, plight, prithee, privily, propinquity, puissant, quagmire, queasy, raiment, rash, reciprocal, remediate, renounce, repent, reposal, repose, reprieve, reprovable, retinue, reverence, rotundity, ruffian, saucy, scarcely, scourge, scurvy, shun, simper, sirrah, sojourn, squiny, strife, subdued, superfluous, superflux, tarry, temperance, thrice, treachery, trifle, usurp, vain, valiant, wagtail, wail, wherefore, withal, woeful, and yeoman.

Materials are available for teaching a variety of Shakespeare's plays:

• Hamlet - Google and printable

• Julius Caesar - Google and printable

• King Lear - Google and printable

• Macbeth - Google and printable

• Othello - Google and printable

• Romeo and Juliet - Google and printable

• The Merchant of Venice - Google and printable

• The Taming of the Shrew - Google and printable

• The Tempest - Google and printable