King Lear Act 3 Quiz, Vocabulary Games, and Close Reading Inference Worksheets

Help high school students navigate Shakespearean language, comprehend plot developments, and sharpen critical thinking and craft analysis skills with this bundle of worksheets and assessments covering Act 3 of William Shakespeare's King Lear. One plot-based quiz, one vocabulary application activity, one word search game, one crossword puzzle, seven close reading inference worksheets (one per scene), and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive bundle option is available.) By engaging with these activities, students will do the following:

• Read for literal comprehension

• Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed

• Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences

• Describe tone in context

• Determine the primary functions of given excerpts or scenes

• Explore how characters think, behave, interact, and develop

• Compare two characters in the play (Edgar and Edmund)

• Apply knowledge of literary devices including assonance, hyperbole, personification, paradox, metaphor, verbal irony, dramatic irony, situational irony, and apheresis

• Conduct brief research on pelicans to better understand their symbolic value in context ("pelican daughters")

• Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence

• Write about Shakespearean drama with clarity, accuracy, and precision

• Come to class better prepared to discuss Shakespeare's plays

Materials are available for teaching a variety of Shakespeare's plays:

• Hamlet - Google and printable

• Julius Caesar - Google and printable

• King Lear - Google and printable

• Macbeth - Google and printable

• Othello - Google and printable

• Romeo and Juliet - Google and printable

• The Merchant of Venice - Google and printable

• The Taming of the Shrew - Google and printable

• The Tempest - Google and printable