"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne Vocabulary Activities

Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement the short story "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The following are included: a crossword puzzle, a word search activity, a vocabulary application worksheet, the public domain narrative, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, Google Drive options are 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

Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed:

• affirm

• decrepit

• deferential

• delirium

• eccentricity

• effervescent

• exuberant

• feeble

• infamous

• melancholy

• ponderous

• quaff

• rheumatic

• tarnished

• tinge

• transient

• tremulous

• venerable

• veracious

• withered

• woeful

Resources are available for a variety of Gothic novels and short stories:

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• "The Monkey’s Paw" by W. W. Jacobs - Google and printable

• "The Outsider" by H.P. Lovecraft - Google and printable

• "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Google and printable