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High school literature games for Microsoft Word
The "WHO HAS" Game -- AP Literature and Composition (Poetry Edition)
An excellent game for preparing students for the AP Literature and Composition exam by reviewing the terms they need to know when writing about literature. Just print out, cut out strips, and hand them to all your students.To play the game, you print out the file and cut along the dotted lines to create strips (I like to print on tagboard and laminate before cutting). Then, just randomly pass out the strips to all of your students. Have the student with the "Begin" slip read their definition. Th
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11th - 12th
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Novel: The Outsiders Puzzle Page (Wordsearch / Criss-Cross / Game / SUB / ELA)
PRESTO!This download is for two fun puzzles that will work great as busy work, extra credit, or that perfect Friday afternoon time filler!Use one!Use both!Your download includes a WORDSEARCH and VOCABULARY CRISS-CROSS GRID that focus on characters and events from SE Hinton's award-winning novel THE OUTSIDERS! It also works perfectly with the movie as well! A perfect addition to any language arts classroom!Answer key for both puzzles is provided!PRESTO!
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: L.A. - NOVELS VOCABULARY PUZZLES SUPER BUNDLE - NO PREP / SUB
The "WHO HAS" Game -- AP Language and Composition
This version of the great WHO HAS classroom game focuses on schemes and devices of syntax needed for success on the AP Language and Composition Exam. It's a great way to reinforce the terms students are expected to know and write about on the AP Exams.To play the game, you print out the file and cut along the dotted lines to create strips (I like to print on tagboard and laminate before cutting). Then, just randomly pass out the strips to all of your students. Have the student with the "Begin" s
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11th - 12th
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Novel - Touching Spirit Bear Puzzle Page (Wordsearch and Criss-Cross / ELA)
PRESTO!This download is for two fun puzzles that will work great as busy work, extra credit, sub lesson enhancement, or that perfect Friday afternoon time filler!Use one!Use both!Your download includes a WORDSEARCH and CRISS-CROSS GRID that focus on characters and terms connected to Ben Mikaelsen's novel TOUCHING SPIRIT BEAR! A perfect addition to any language arts classroom!Answer key for both puzzles is provided!PRESTO!*This puzzle was designed from a TPT buyer request. If you would like me
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: L.A. - NOVELS VOCABULARY PUZZLES SUPER BUNDLE - NO PREP / SUB
Shakespeare's 100 Characters Word Search Puzzle
This is a word search puzzle containing 100 of Shakespeare's most famous characters.
Works as a good sponge activity or even as a game to play in your class (who can find all of them the fastest or in a set period of time). Since there are 100 names, it'll take awhile to complete the puzzle.
Includes a solution key.
Other related AP English puzzles:
• AP Literary Terms Crossword Puzzle
• Rhetorical Terms Crossword Puzzle
• Shakespeare's 100 Characters Word Search Puzzle
• Types of Poetry
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4th - 12th
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Romeo & Juliet Shakespeare Character Test + Review Game
Romeo and Juliet Character Review and Test
This 14-page bundle includes a complete review game (BINGO or any trivia review) AND the test for Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. I used this with my general freshmen class, so it is an easier version. The focus is over the characters; does not cover symbolism or theme.
Can be used whether the class just read the play or just watched the 1968 Zeffirelli movie.
There are 31 clue cards for the review: 19 character identification and 12 quotation id
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7th - 12th
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The Crucible Witch Hunt Game
This game is to be played in a classroom along with the reading of The Crucible by Arthur Miller. It includes secret identities, spectral evidence, and characters from the story. It greatly benefits the students to see how a witch-hunt can so easily escalate out of hand. Enjoy!
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10th - 12th
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Macbeth Act I Review: Trivia Questions & Answers (50q)
This list of 50 Macbeth Act I Trivia Questions and Answers has questions with varying degrees of difficulty. This works very well as a fun review the day before the Act I Quiz. I break my class into teams (25 students are broken into 5 teams of 5) and have them sit in small groups in a horseshoe around the room, with groups about 6-8 feet apart. I ask the questions in order starting with Group 1. They have 10 seconds to whisper among themselves & give the answer. If they are right, they
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9th - 12th
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Character Trait Charades
Vocabulary is VERY important in ALL state testing. Here's an activity that will introduce important vocabulary while they are having fun! Laminate, cut up and distribute each card to a student. Have students stand up and “act-out” the character trait. I allow my students to partner up to come up with an “acting” plan. I also allow them to use words, but the words cannot contain any word part of their assigned character trait word. Have Fun!!
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5th - 12th
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The Outsiders Characterization Escape Game!
*Editable* Easily Modified*
Escape Room game for practicing characterization with the novel THE OUTSIDERS. The game comes with detailed instructions and pre-made materials for any modification! Pre-made materials include tasks for a different number of players/questions. Ideal for practicing both characterization, text evidence/support, and writing concluding sentences. A suggested material would be to purchase blacklights/blacklight pens (from Amazon), but alternative directions have also
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6th - 9th
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Watership Down: Who's Your Bunny? Character Introduction
This fun, fast activity for students is great to use at the beginning of your study of Watership Down to introduce the main characters of the book and to reinforce the concept of world building in fantasy by encouraging students to "be the bunnies." I find that students tend to have trouble keeping track of all the rabbits introduced in the first few chapters of the book, especially because they have strange rabbit names. Older students also sometimes are turned off by the idea of bunnies as cha
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Watership Down Novel Resources Bundle
Watership Down Memory Match
Remember that Memory Match Game where you are supposed to pair two shapes. Now it's a whole class game and instead of pairing shapes you are pairing characters and quotes, literary devices and descriptions, etc. Tape the pieces of paper backwards to your board in a square formation and get started. Have fun!
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6th - 12th
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Secret Scythe Class Game for Novel Unit!
Secret Scythe is a fun game that will get your class up and moving around! Each student is assigned a role, secret gleanings happen calculatedly (or not-so-calculatedly...), and students have to figure out who is responsible! It's a game that can get loud and can be played once or over and over again, each time more fun than the last! Get your students as interested in the "art of killcraft" as Scythe Faraday does with his two apprentices in Shusterman's modern classic novel!
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9th - 10th
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Also included in: Scythe Bundle!
Novel: The Westing Game Puzzle Page (Wordsearch and Criss-Cross / ELA / SUB)
PRESTO!This download is for two fun puzzles that will work great as busy work, extra credit, or that perfect Friday afternoon time filler!Use one!Use both!Your download includes a WORDSEARCH and CRISS-CROSS GRID that focus on characters and terms from Ellen Raskin's mystery-novel THE WESTING GAME! It also works perfectly with the movie as well! A perfect addition to any language arts classroom!Answer key for both puzzles is provided!PRESTO!*This puzzle was designed by request from a TPT buyer.
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: L.A. - NOVELS VOCABULARY PUZZLES SUPER BUNDLE - NO PREP / SUB
Romeo and Juliet Acts I and II trivia game questions and KEY
This is a fun activity to stimulate class discussion or review act I and II of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. There are 43 questions with answers.
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8th - 12th
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Wuthering Heights Activity Package
The novel, Wuthering Heights, can be confusing to students for a variety of reasons: similar character names; multiple narratives; timelines w/flashbacks; etc. This package has been designed primarily to supplement a teacher's existing Wuthering Height's knowledge. In other words, the teacher's ability to relate the general story is assumed. The items in this package are tools to make students' understanding of this complex text easier. These tools include: characters & their relationships;
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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To Kill a Mockingbird Escape Room
An activity that allows students to review major events, symbolism, quotes, and characters in an engaging and fun way! This activity utilizes images, maps, and the your classroom space to get students collaborating, moving, and reviewing the material!This resource includes an answer key, as well as a teacher directions so that you can cater this activity to your classroom environment and needs!
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9th - 12th
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Romeo and Juliet: Lit Terms, Study Guide, Jeopardy Questions, Final Test
This is a document that includes fill-in-the-blank handouts for Shakespeare Literary Terms (one handout for definitions and one handout for examples from Romeo and Juliet) along with an answer key. There is also a study guide that corresponds with a Jeopardy review game and a final test over Romeo and Juliet. The Study Guide is followed by an answer key and the Jeopardy questions have the answers listed. For Jeopardy, I made 5 sets of magnetic pages with numbers 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 to sti
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8th - 9th
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Romeo and Juliet Quizzes by ACT - Distance Learning
Quizzes by ACT for the play, Romeo and Juliet. Includes passage translations, story comprehension and knowledge of literary devices: soliloquy, oxymoron, foreshadowing, double entendre, pun, dramatic irony, and mythological allusion. For each ACT, there are seven passages for translation and ten multiple choice questions. The passages and the questions also lend themselves to review games like Jeopardy or Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Hobbit - "Find Four" Simile and Metaphor Fun Board Game!
My basic "Find Four" board game is designed to help students learn the difference between a simile or metaphor. This version uses actual simile and metaphor quotes from The Hobbit and the page numbers where the figurative language is located. In addition to the 20 examples of simile and metaphor (ten each), there are ten examples that contain neither. Students have to be on their wooly little Hobbit toes in order to find four examples in a row!
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* Full-sized 8"x11" Game
A Separate Peace - Mini Debates
This document features a variety of statements about the novel and gives students the ability to choose why they agree/disagree. Can be used as an across-the-room activity (left side - agree, right side - disagree -- walk to your side!) to get students up and moving. My students absolutely loved this and it took 2 class periods (2 total hours) instead of my planned 1, every time I taught it!
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: A Separate Peace UNIT BUNDLE
Julius Caesar Anticipatory Set / Preview / Theme Preparation / Focus Questions
To get your unit on Julius Caesar started, use this worksheet to introduce the larger concepts and themes to students. Questions about fate and free will, power and sensibility, and friendship and betrayal will jumpstart your discussion and get students excited to read the play. The first part of this assignment are short answer questions and the second half is a continuum of opinion-based statements that students plot. Critical thinking and great discussions happens when you make this the st
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Outsiders Figurative Language Board Game Challenger
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Figurative Language Board Game Challenger
This is a challenging gane board which will help your students to understand and identify figurative language such as simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, oxymoron, allusion and synecdoche in, "The Outsiders," by S. E. Hinton.
This game board contains 23 examples of the the most challenging figurative language found in the story. Students are asked to identify the type of figurative language a
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7th - 12th
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Thesis Creation Mad Libs
Use a simple formula to teach students how to create a thesis for a literary argument. This fun activity asks students to create lists of major works, literary elements, themes/ideas/concepts, & groups of people or bodies in order to generate often very funny literary theses:In [MAJOR WORK], the author uses [LITERARY ELEMENT(S)] to make a powerful statement about [CONCEPT/IDEA/-ISM] in [PEOPLE OR CIVIC GROUP].Students will discuss whether they think they can defend the resulting Mad Lib Thes
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9th - 12th
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