Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of activities to complement the Gothic fiction novel Dracula by Bram Stoker (chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4). A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: alacrity, bauble, coarse, dilapidated, disheveled, doggedly, famished, gloomy, impalpable, imperious, menial, mirth, nebulous, polyglot, precipice, reticent, salient, serpentine, tangible, and uncanny.
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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Dracula Chapters 1-4 Quiz, Close Reading Worksheets, and Vocabulary Games
Evaluate comprehension and support the development of close reading analysis skills with this bundle of resources covering chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 of *Dracula* by Bram Stoker. A plot-based quiz, close reading worksheets, vocabulary activities, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in printable Word Document and PDF formats. This resource may facilitate small-group discussions in which students decode language and pose/respond to questions relating to plot, broad topics, and character development. Using this resource for structured guidance, students will improve their ability to present information, conclusions, and supporting textual evidence clearly and convincingly. By engaging with these materials, students will: * Identify what the text says both explicitly and implicitly * 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 * Determine the function of a given excerpt * Explore how setting contributes to mood * Discern the intended effects of the author's narrative techniques * Examine how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop * Explain how gender norms of 19th Century England are broken * Apply knowledge of literary devices including situational irony, verbal irony, dramatic irony, foreshadowing, metaphor, oxymoron, epiphany, and more * Read a portion of Emily Gerard's "Transylvanian Superstitions" to make sense of a character's actions and thinking * Conduct brief research on gypsies to explain why Harker believes they may be helpful to him * Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence * Write about Gothic literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision
Dracula by Bram Stoker Vocabulary Games and Activities Bundle
Frontload assigned readings with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of Bram Stoker’s novel *Dracula*. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are eight vocabulary application activities, eight crossword puzzles, answer keys, and the public domain text. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. A total of 146 challenging words are addressed: abasement, absolved, acquiesce, afresh, alacrity, anguish, appease, ardor, armament, ashen, assent, avarice, badinage, barren, bauble, benign, beseech, brooding, brute, cackle, carafe, celerity, cerebration, chagrin, coarse, conspicuously, consternation, contemptuous, corroborate, decorum, demurely, desecration, desolate, detrimentally, dilapidated, disdain, disheveled, dismay, doggedly, eccentricity, emaciated, engrossed, enigmatical, exquisite, famished, feeble, fervor, fitfully, flourish, furtively, genially, gloomy, gnarled, haggard, harrowing, hasten, haughty, heresy, horrid, humbly, impalpable, imperious, impetuosity, implore, importunate, incite, indifferent, indignation, injunction, insolent, keen, laconically, languid, lethargic, livid, lugubrious, lurid, meekly, melancholy, menial, mirth, multitude, mundane, nebulous, obsequious, obstinately, obviate, odium, omnipotent, pallid, paroxysm, pedantry, perfunctory, peril, phlegmatic, pious, pique, placidly, plaintive, poignant, polyglot, precipice, procure, profuse, prosaic, quaint, redress, remonstrance, reproach, repudiate, resolute, reticent, reverently, salient, salvation, sanctify, saunter, scrutinize, sentimental, serpentine, servile, shrill, sneer, solemn, sternly, stertorous, stupendous, suavely, subdued, sulky, surly, swoon, tacit, tangible, tremulous, uncanny, vague, verbatim, vindictive, vivacity, vivify, vocation, wary, weary, withered, and woefully. 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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