Help high school students navigate William Shakespeare’s language with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of Much Ado About Nothing. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book 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 total of 119 words are addressed: abide, accordant, accordingly, alter, amiable, amorous, apt, arrant, beseech, beset, beshrew, bestow, bleat, blithe, boast, bode, brethren, candle-waster, carp, civet, clamor, comely, commence, consumption, contempt, couched, counsel, countenance, counterpoise, coverture, coxcomb, cozen, cuckold, cudgel, cunning, daff, decree, defiled, dissuade, dotard, ducat, enigmatical, entreat, epitaph, epithet, extenuate, fain, fair, fancy, fetter, fleer, flout, fowl, fray, frugal, giddy, guerdon, harpy, hasty, hearken, heartily, heavy, impious, incite, lament, limed, lusty, malefactor, marl, meddle, melancholy, mettle, mirth, misprision, mournful, needful, noisome, nuptial, obstinate, ominous, ostentation, pains, pernicious, perturbation, piety, pleached, poniard, predestinate, profitless, quench, reclusive, repent, reproach, reverence, ruffian, salve, scarcely, shrewd, skirmish, slander, squire, subdue, tax, tedious, temporize, thither, toil, travail, treacherous, treatise, trow, vagrom, valiant, varlet, victual, vilely, wherefore, woo, and zeal.

Help high school students navigate William Shakespeare’s language with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of Twelfth Night. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book 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 total of 119 words are addressed: abhor, abjure, aloof, altar, anon, apt, austere, barbarous, barren, beguile, beseech, beset, beshrew, besmear, bestow, catechise, chantry, cheveril, chide, churlish, clodpole, consanguineous, consecrated, contempt, convey, counsel, covetousness, coxcomb, decree, discreet, dissemble, dormouse, dowry, dram, ducat, durance, entreat, enwrap, estimable, eunuch, extort, fadge, feign, fervor, fie, folly, forbear, fowl, fulsome, further, gabble, gait, gaskins, geck, giddy, grandam, haply, hardy, haste, hither, hyperbolical, idle, impetuosity, jocund, knave, laudable, lime, lubber, lustrous, malapert, malice, malignancy, maugre, meddle, melancholy, mellifluous, mettle, mirth, notorious, obscure, paltry, pang, pare, perchance, perdition, perpend, prattle, prithee, prudent, quaff, quarrel, quench, rave, resolute, reverence, rubious, rudesby, sage, scathable, scurvy, shrill, skittish, solemn, swaggering, tarry, thriftless, transparent, tut, tyrannous, unauspicious, ungird, unprizable, usurp, valiant, vex, waylay, weary, wherefore, and wooer.

Help high school students navigate William Shakespeare’s language with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of The Taming of the Shrew. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book 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 total of 120 words are addressed: abode, accoutrements, affable, alarum, amiable, amorous, amort, bauble, beguile, bemoil, bereft, beseech, bestow, blear, bondmaid, bonny, breeching, carouse, chattels, chide, choleric, clamorous, confer, confound, construe, counsel, countenance, court, coxcomb, coy, cozen, crack-hemp, cullion, currish, deign, digress, diligent, din, disdain, dissemble, doff, dole, dotard, dowry, ducat, ere, fain, fair, famish, flout, forbear, forthwith, fray, frivolous, gale, gamesome, giddy, gird, goodly, graybeard, habiliments, haste, headstrong, heartily, heedless, heir, hither, immortal, imprimis, insolence, irksome, jarring, knavery, lackey, largess, loggerheaded, lusty, madcap, mar, meddle, miry, moralize, mutton, noddle, notorious, pains, paltry, pate, patrimony, pedant, perpetually, pine, plead, quaff, quench, raiment, reign, rudesby, scornful, scrivener, solemn, sullen, surly, swiftly, swinge, tarry, tedious, thrall, toil, unapt, undone, vex, volubility, wander, wane, weary, wherefore, woo, and worshipful. 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