Excerpt from "Brothers"

The oldest of 6 brothers, Jon Scieszka knows what sticking together means. And sometimes, it's messy. Beware of stinky words in this list based on a personal essay from the children's book author.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 8 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Made You Laugh, Brothers, Pet Peeves, Underfunded Schools Forced to Cut, The Open Window, A Day's Work, They Have Yarns, Mooses, Is Traffic Jam Delectable?, The Power of Pets, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Fear Busters
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  1. scatter
    move away from each other
    The Scieszka brothers are scattered all over the country now, but we still get together once a year to play a family golf tournament.
  2. amazing
    inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
    And I'm sure my brothers would want me to point out the amazing fact that I am the winner of both the very first Coupe de Lou 1983 and the latest Coupe de Lou 2004.
  3. memory
    something that is remembered
    But of all the Scieszka brother memories, I believe it was a family car trip that gave us our finest moment of brotherhood.
  4. maniac
    an insane person
    We ate lunch, ran around like maniacs in the warm sun, then packed back into the station wagon--Mom and Dad up front, Jim, Jon, Tom, Gregg, Brian, Jeff, and the cat in back.
  5. barf
    eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
    The cat found it and must have scarfed every bit of it, because two minutes later we heard that awful ack ack ack sound of a cat getting ready to barf.
  6. puke
    eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
    The cat puked up the pecan nut log.
  7. whiff
    a short light gust of air
    He got one look and whiff of the pecan nut cat yack and blew his own sticky lunch all over the cat.
  8. upchuck
    eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
    Gregg upchucked on Tom.
  9. horror
    intense aversion
    Jim and I rolled down the windows and hung out as far as we could, yelling in group puke horror.
  10. gag
    cause to retch or choke
    All of the brothers--Jim, Jon, Tom, Gregg, Brian, and Jeff--spilled out of the puke wagon and fell in the grass, gagging and yelling and laughing until we couldn't laugh anymore.
Created on Tue Sep 15 14:57:58 EDT 2015 (updated Wed Sep 16 02:24:44 EDT 2015)

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