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Dialect Dictionaries

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Students list non-standard English words they use in their community dialect. They create dictionary definitions for 15 of the words they come up with including: pronunciation, part of speech, definition and example of usage. They create dictionaries.

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Grade
7th - 9th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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