Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A crossword puzzle, word search activity, vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: ajar, banter, boast, contempt, continually, epigram, feign, fervent, murmur, reproach, riotous, shrill, solemn, subdued, supercilious, swank, totter, and wistfully.
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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The Great Gatsby Vocabulary Development Games and Activities Bundle
Frontload assigned readings with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel *The Great Gatsby*. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are nine vocabulary application activities, nine crossword puzzles, nine word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. A total of 162 challenging words are addressed: abortive, abounding, abyss, adventitious, aesthetic, affront, ajar, ambiguously, apathetically, ashen, banter, bewildered, boast, brooding, coarse, complacency, confounding, contempt, continually, continuously, cordial, corroborate, corrugated, countenance, credulity, dart, deft, defunct, dejection, desolate, dilatory, disheveled, dismayed, earnestly, effectually, elicit, elude, engrossed, epigram, euphemism, evoke, exasperated, exultant, feign, fervent, flounce, fluctuate, fumble, gaudily, genially, ghastly, gibberish, haste, haughty, hospitality, humidor, implore, imply, incessant, incoherent, incorruptible, incredulous, indifferent, indignantly, indiscernible, ingratiate, innumerable, inquire, insidious, interminable, inviolate, jauntily, jovially, keenly, languid, laudable, lethargic, lingeringly, melancholy, melodious, meretricious, modish, monopolize, murmur, muslin, nebulous, notoriety, notorious, obliged, obscure, obstinate, obtrusive, peasantry, penitentiary, permeate, poignant, portentous, presumptuous, protégé, punctilious, ragged, raspingly, ravenously, recede, redolent, relinquish, reluctance, reproach, retribution, reverent, reveries, riotous, sagely, saunter, scamper, scarcely, scornful, scrawny, scrutinize, scurry, sentimental, shiftless, shrill, skeptically, sneer, solemn, solidarity, squeamishness, strident, subdued, subtle, sumptuous, supercilious, superfluous, suppressed, swank, swoon, tactlessly, tangible, tinny, totter, tranquil, transitory, truculent, turgid, unintelligible, unpunctual, unscrupulously, unwavering, urbane, vacuous, vague, vehemently, veranda, vestibule, vigorously, vitality, wan, weary, whimper, wistfully, and withered. 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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The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Quiz, Inference Worksheet, and Vocabulary Games
Facilitate vocabulary development, evaluate reading comprehension, and help students practice critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of activities covering chapter 1 of *The Great Gatsby* by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A plot-based quiz, vocabulary application activity, crossword puzzle, word search game, close reading inference worksheet, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: * Read for literal comprehension * 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 * Infer the intended effects of the author's word choices and narrative techniques * Discern point of view * Clarify cause-and-effect relationships * Examine how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop * Apply knowledge of a variety of literary devices including situational irony, hyperbole, simile, and metaphor * Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence * Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision * Come to class better prepared to discuss literature
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