1984 by George Orwell Vocabulary Development Games and Activities Bundle
Frontload assigned readings with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are three vocabulary application activities, six crossword puzzles, six word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive bundle option is 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 75 challenging words are addressed: abashed, aberrations, allusion, apathetic, assent, atrocity, avaricious, barren, beseech, bough, clamber, clamor, coarse, conspicuous, contempt, continually, denounce, dingy, disquieting, dissemble, doleful, eccentricity, eminent, extricate, exult, feeble, fleeting, furtively, genially, heretical, incredulous, indefatigably, indignation, ineffectual, inscrutable, intently, interminable, keen, luminous, melancholy, mournful, murmur, mutter, nebulous, obsolete, odious, omnipotent, palpable, persecute, prevaricate, procure, recede, reconciliation, relinquish, remonstrance, reproach, reverence, shrill, shudder, solitude, spurious, strident, subdued, subtlety, superfluous, surly, tedious, tentative, torpid, treachery, tremulous, vague, vehemently, weariness, and whimper.
Resources are available for a variety of engaging novels:
Frontload assigned readings with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are three vocabulary application activities, six crossword puzzles, six word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive bundle option is 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 75 challenging words are addressed: abashed, aberrations, allusion, apathetic, assent, atrocity, avaricious, barren, beseech, bough, clamber, clamor, coarse, conspicuous, contempt, continually, denounce, dingy, disquieting, dissemble, doleful, eccentricity, eminent, extricate, exult, feeble, fleeting, furtively, genially, heretical, incredulous, indefatigably, indignation, ineffectual, inscrutable, intently, interminable, keen, luminous, melancholy, mournful, murmur, mutter, nebulous, obsolete, odious, omnipotent, palpable, persecute, prevaricate, procure, recede, reconciliation, relinquish, remonstrance, reproach, reverence, shrill, shudder, solitude, spurious, strident, subdued, subtlety, superfluous, surly, tedious, tentative, torpid, treachery, tremulous, vague, vehemently, weariness, and whimper.
Resources are available for a variety of engaging novels:
Frontload assigned readings with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are three vocabulary application activities, six crossword puzzles, six word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive bundle option is 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 75 challenging words are addressed: abashed, aberrations, allusion, apathetic, assent, atrocity, avaricious, barren, beseech, bough, clamber, clamor, coarse, conspicuous, contempt, continually, denounce, dingy, disquieting, dissemble, doleful, eccentricity, eminent, extricate, exult, feeble, fleeting, furtively, genially, heretical, incredulous, indefatigably, indignation, ineffectual, inscrutable, intently, interminable, keen, luminous, melancholy, mournful, murmur, mutter, nebulous, obsolete, odious, omnipotent, palpable, persecute, prevaricate, procure, recede, reconciliation, relinquish, remonstrance, reproach, reverence, shrill, shudder, solitude, spurious, strident, subdued, subtlety, superfluous, surly, tedious, tentative, torpid, treachery, tremulous, vague, vehemently, weariness, and whimper.
Resources are available for a variety of engaging novels:
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Frontload assigned readings with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are three vocabulary application activities, six crossword puzzles, six word search games, and answer keys.