The Dog One day, Maxy was at school. His teacher asked him, “Maxy, can you make a potato clock?” “Yes,” Maxy replied. “That’s easy.” “Good. I need you to make a potato clock for everyone in your class by Monday.” “I’ll try,” he stuttered. “That’ll be hard. There are fifteen people in my class, and it is Friday.” “Good,” she said. “The class is counting on you.” I’ll need to skip soccer without mom knowing. As Maxy left school he thought of different ways to skip soccer. He could pretend being asleep or sick. When he got home, his mom told him to get ready for soccer. He had to think fast. “Mom!” Maxy called, “can you bring up my soccer jersey?” “Okay.” Maxy got into bed and pretended to be sleeping. When his mom got upstairs, she looked at him and said, “I know you’re awake. When you lie, you twitch, and right now, your whole body is twitching.” …show more content…
“Do I have to go to soccer?” “Yes, you do. You need to get outside.” His mom left. Maxy decided to pretend to be sick. “Mom,” Maxy called shakily, “I don’t feel well.” “Too bad! Let’s go.” After soccer, Maxy started his first potato clock. Potato clocks were hard to make—a clock . . . easy; a potato clock . . . hard. The next day, Maxy worked hard to finish the potato clocks. I’ll make seven today, and then seven tomorrow. “Maxy,” his baby brother, Justin, said as he waddled in. “Can you pay wif me, peese.” Maxy thought, If I play with Justin, then I might not get to finish the clocks, but if I do not play with Justin, Justin will tell Mom, and I will get in trouble. “Fine. Ten
The shared danger of jumping brings Finny and Gene closer. While the rest of the boys hurry ahead at the sound of the bell for dinner, the roommates playfully wrestle until they are late for the meal. They slip into the dormitory, where they read their English assignments and play their radio (against school rules), until it is time for bed.
Billy is coming home from work one day when suddenly he hears some dogs up the street fighting. He goes to check it out and finds them picking on a redbone hound. He saves the dog and cares for it through the night. It reminds him of his childhood. When Billy was ten years old he lived on a farm in the Ozark Mountains of northeastern Oklahoma. He wanted two good coonhounds very badly, he called it “puppy love”, but his papa could not afford to buy him the dogs. For many months, Billy tries to content himself with some rodent traps his papa gives him, but he still wants a dog. Then one day he finds a sportsman’s catalog in an abandoned campsite. In it he sees an ad for good hounds, at $25 each. He decides he wants to save $50 and order himself two hounds. Billy works hard, selling fruit and bait to fishermen, and gathering fruit that he sells to his grandfather at his store. Finally, he saves enough money and gives it to his grandfather to order the dogs for him and asks him to keep it s secret. When a notice comes that they have arrived at the mail depot in the nearby town of Tahlequah, they decide to go into town the next week. That night Billy decides he can not wait any longer. He packs himself a little food, and heads of for town following the river through the woods. He walks all night, and finally reaches town in the morning. The people in town laugh and stare at the young hillbilly, but it does not bother Billy he is there on a mission to get his dogs. He finally collects his dogs and walks back out of town with their small heads sticking out of his bag. Some schoolchildren mob around him and knock him down, but the town sheriff rescues him. The sheriff is impressed with Billy’s determination, and says he has grit. That, night Billy camped in a cave with his two puppies. They wake up in the middle of the night to hear the call of a mountain lion. Billy builds a fire to keep them safe, while the bigger of the two dogs, the male, barks into the night air.
Janet really wants to join “Mapes Street baseball” but Richard keeps on saying no to Janet.Because Richards says as long as he's the captain of “Maps Street Baseball” no girl will ever play on the team. Becky wants to join the “Wheels and Brake Boys” “but Becky can't get a bike because he mom keeps saying no” because it's too much money. Janet on the other hand had kept bugging Richard. Two let her in so then Richard had thought about his team because some of the players were hurt or out of town so he had said yes to
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I. found out all about you like I know your parents and sister are gone somewhere and I know where and how long they’re going to be gone, and I know who you were with last night. " Connie’s fear of the situation sends waves of dizziness through her body, makes her hands shake, and causes "Her heart [to be] too big now for her chest and its pumping made sweat break out all over her."
Harding uses the clocks to show George’s limited amount of time left on this earth. The sudden realization George has when he exclaims, “ that was it”, that he finally understood what the problem was, that the clock had run down—it had stopped. It was only then that he realized that all of the clocks in the room had wound down, that time had seemed to stop. When George realizes that it was not just one clock that wound down, but every clock, that seemed to emphasize the fact that because George only has a limited amount of time left, and it only goes to further satisfy that fact that it is every clock that
“Check your phone after school today because I will text you when I get there to pick you up!” Jimmy’s mother Theresa replied. During most of the school year, Jimmy takes the bus to school and back home from school but his mother was not working today, so she was available to pick him up at 3:30. Emerging from the kitchen into the doorway, Theresa waved to her son as he boarded the school bus.
We went on a walk and saw a cat; the cat was green. The green, fluffy cat waddled around the yard. Fred, was chasing a mouse through the yard; Fred was panting when he stopped. The mouse, Marty, ran faster than the green cat: without thinking he ran into the barn door! Fred said, “Dangit! You’re lucky this time Marty.” As Fred stalked Marty in a cat-like way, Marty had ran out the back door. Since Marty was faster, he kept running circles around Fred, to taunt him. Fred started getting dizzy, so he decided to lay down and give up. When Fred laid down and finally fell asleep, Marty decided to sit on him. Marty’s small presence didn’t make a big difference; they both fell asleep.
At 9:30 am, observation last 10 minutes. Kevin was in the sink area. He just finished washing his hands. The teacher called Kevin to go sit in circle time. All the other children were already sitting down in the carpet area.
“Pappa, please, please, please don't go to work on the second weekend of August. I need to try out for soccer!” I said enthusiastically.
The next day Marley puts a sign up that says he found a dog and told what color she was and lots of other things. Three days went past and no one came to their house and got the dog. The fourth day came and the dog’s owner came and the dog’s real name was Sally. The owner’s name was Dave and he said I think you found my dog. Marley asked him what she did when she needed to go out and use the bathroom, he said she whines at the door. Marley was really upset and he had to give Sally back to Dave the
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When the lonely puppy got to his new home, he was scared. He wondered, “Where am I? Where is my mom? Are my brothers and sisters here? ”. Aden's house was huge. There were so many things to sniff, and lots of items to chew on. The lonely puppy started to cry. Aden picked him up and brought him to his mom. “Mom, why is he crying?” he asked. “He’s sad that he’s away from his family. Maybe you can cheer him up by giving him a name,” she suggested. “Great idea!” he
“Oh, why didn’t you say that? It’s over there,” said sheen, pointing down to the class at the end of the hallway. Sheen led them to their class and sat a seat behind from Jimmy. Jimmy sat down and put his ball under his chair. The class was very spacious with 4 rows of 4 individual desks. The desks were all facing a chalkboard that was located in the front of the class. In the back of the class were four computers on individual tables. The chairs near those desks were very low. There was a little space that was dark between the tables.