"Mooses"

Do mooses muse? Ted Hughes answers that question in a poem.

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. goofy
    ludicrous, foolish
    The goofy Moose, the walking house frame,
    Is lost
    In the forest.
  2. blunder
    make one's way clumsily or blindly
    He bumps, he blunders, he stands.
  3. mass
    the property of a body that causes it to have weight
    With massy bony thoughts sticking out near his ears
  4. lectern
    desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text
    He tries to think,
    Leaning their huge weight
    On the lectern of his front legs.
  5. crash
    move with, or as if with, a loud noise
    The Moose
    Crashes on, and crashes into a lake
  6. belong
    be in the right place or situation
    "Where do I belong? This is no place!"
  7. charge
    make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
    He turns dragging half the lake out after him
    And charges the crackling underbrush
  8. stare
    look at with fixed eyes
    He meets another Moose
    He stares, he thinks: "It's only a mirror!"
  9. groan
    indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure
    Where is the world?" he groans.
  10. droopy
    hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness)
    Hopeless drops drip from his droopy lips.
  11. dope
    an ignorant or foolish person
    Two dopes of the deep woods.
Created on Tue Sep 15 22:20:30 EDT 2015 (updated Wed Sep 16 02:23:21 EDT 2015)

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