Eighth graders will work in four groups (each with five students) on this “building block” unit to create a Dictionary for Eighth Graders on their Chromebooks, that will ultimately be presented on the Smart board to their classmates. Each group will be assigned a core subject--Writing,
Reading, Science, and Religion--that they will fashion into a 100-term individual dictionary of
terms that each committee sees as crucial to their given subject. These terms--taken from the
Common Core Vocabulary list, Glossary of Literary terms, Eighth Grade Archdiocesan Guide-
Lines, Next Generation/Eighth grade Archdiocesan Science Standards, textbooks, class lectures, and other classroom resources--will be compiled in dictionary form with respelling,
pronunciation, derivation, meaning, example sentence showing context clues, and visual repre-
sentation. Each of these four subject dictionaries will together form The Dictionary for Eighth Graders. It may be extended if time is still available within this month-long unit lesson (within
the first trimester) to include math, social studies, art, and music, with each committee assigned
A second topic (perhaps with fifty terms each).
Each of the four committees will be required to also include a supplement of 20 individuals that
each group has decided is central to their topic, with a short biographical sketch on each.
This dictionary is the eighth grade follow-up to the Dictionary for Seventh Graders constructed
as a print edition eight years ago. If this dictionary is well-executed, it would serve as an
excellent review of eighth grade content for the final exams for all future classes.
Religion Committee: DB, JL, Dr.W, AB, Da.W
Writing Committee: FA, KW, PJ, MR, BB
Reading Committee: GS, SS, WC, RE
Science Committee: MS, LL, DT, TE, JM
Reading, Science, and Religion--that they will fashion into a 100-term individual dictionary of
terms that each committee sees as crucial to their given subject. These terms--taken from the
Common Core Vocabulary list, Glossary of Literary terms, Eighth Grade Archdiocesan Guide-
Lines, Next Generation/Eighth grade Archdiocesan Science Standards, textbooks, class lectures, and other classroom resources--will be compiled in dictionary form with respelling,
pronunciation, derivation, meaning, example sentence showing context clues, and visual repre-
sentation. Each of these four subject dictionaries will together form The Dictionary for Eighth Graders. It may be extended if time is still available within this month-long unit lesson (within
the first trimester) to include math, social studies, art, and music, with each committee assigned
A second topic (perhaps with fifty terms each).
Each of the four committees will be required to also include a supplement of 20 individuals that
each group has decided is central to their topic, with a short biographical sketch on each.
This dictionary is the eighth grade follow-up to the Dictionary for Seventh Graders constructed
as a print edition eight years ago. If this dictionary is well-executed, it would serve as an
excellent review of eighth grade content for the final exams for all future classes.
Religion Committee: DB, JL, Dr.W, AB, Da.W
Writing Committee: FA, KW, PJ, MR, BB
Reading Committee: GS, SS, WC, RE
Science Committee: MS, LL, DT, TE, JM