T2+Narrative

[|T2 narrative writing]

__Tuesday 21st June 2011__

One normal day I arrived home from a long boring day at school I went into the house got out of my uniform and took my dog Jessie for a walk down on the beach when mum got home she cooked dinner and did the normal thing when it was time for bed I took Jessie out into the garage and made her bed up on the stretcher with her favorite blanket and toy I always leave the garage door open a bit so she can go in and out in the night. Jessie was just a normal part of my daily routine and it felt like she had been in my life forever but really I only got her 9 months ago.

__Wednesday 22 June 2011__

One normal day I arrived home from a long boring day at school I went into the house got out of my uniform and took my dog Jessie for a walk down on the beach when mum got home she cooked dinner and did the normal thing when it was time for bed I took Jessie out into the garage and made her bed up on the stretcher with her favorite blanket and toy I always leave the garage door open a bit so she can go in and out in the night. Jessie was just a normal part of my daily routine and it felt like she had been in my life forever but really I only got her 9 months ago.

When I awoke to a series of barks and a loud thud outside I got a huge fright and went down to see if everything was alright when I was half way down I froze was I dreaming I must have been half asleep when I came out here I thought to myself, I sighted and went back to bed. When I awoke in the morning and went out to feed Jessie she was gone I looked outside and inside and everywhere she would possibly be were was she I thought to myself, after looking down our street for her I made posters and flyers and put them on the posts around the streets.

I spent all day looking for my dog calling her and calling her but she never came I sat by the phone hopping for a call from the pound or someone that had found her, no one called where was she all the fences and gates are dog proof and anyways she has never left the property before. After about 2 weeks my parents told me to forget it but I didn’t I knew I never would, after she had been gone for five months I still did not believe she was gone for good I had a feeling she was out there somewere. As I was walking to school I saw my mate patrick hopping of the bus I ran over to him when I got there he said “guess what” what I said I saw some paw prints that led off somewhere up in the mountains by my house, I shrugged and kept walking forgetting the fact it could be Jessie, anyway he tells you anything he just likes to please you as he doesn't have to many friends.

__Thursday 23rd June 2011__

**Comment: Maddy I'm sure lots of readers will be able to relate to your story. No one wants to lose their dog :+)**

**Target - Next Steps.** **Be careful with run on sentences e.g. the first 3 lines of your story have no punctuation. Remember to include full stops and commas in the correct places.**

**One normal day I arrived home from a long boring day at school, I went into the house got out of my uniform and took my dog Jessie for a walk down on the beach. When mum got home she cooked dinner and did the normal routine. When it was time for bed I took Jessie out into the garage and made her bed up on the stretcher, with her favorite blanket and toy. I always leave the garage door open a bit so she can go in and out during the night. 9 months with Jessie and it felt like I had had here forever.**

One normal day I arrived home from a long boring day at school I went into the house got out of my uniform and took my dog Jessie for a walk down on the beach when mum got home she cooked dinner and did the normal thing when it was time for bed I took Jessie out into the garage and made her bed up on the stretcher with her favorite blanket and toy I always leave the garage door open a bit so she can go in and out in the night. 9 months with Jessie and it felt life I had had here forever.

I spent all day looking for my dog calling her and calling her but she never came. I sat by the phone hopping for a call from the pound or someone that had found her, no one called, where was she all the fences and gates are dog proof and anyways she has never left the property before. After about 2 weeks my parents told me to forget it but I didn’t, I knew I never would. After she had been gone for five months I still did not believe she was gone for good I had a feeling she was out there somewere. As I was walking to school I saw my mate patrick hopping of the bus I ran over to him when I got there he said “guess what” what I said I saw some paw prints that led off somewhere up in the mountains by my house, I shrugged and kept walking forgetting the fact that they could be Jessies anyway he tells you anything he just likes to please you he doesn't have to many friends.

When I thought about what he had told me I decided to have a look up in the mountains after school. The bell rang, today I caught the bus home with Patrick when we got to his house we dropped our bags and followed the prints, on and on they led then suddenly the prints stopped, what I said out loud, then suddenly I saw it a small musty cave I peered in to it I slowly walked in at the end of the cave there was a large skinny figure about 30 inches tall my dog was far smaller and was really fat not like this thing it was tall and anorexic, as I moved closer to the shadow it ran up to me licking my hands and face I ran out of the cave petrified into into the day light I ran, I barley recognized her it was Jessie tall and skinny totally the opposite to the last time I saw here, but I still had one question why was she all the way up here. That night when I had taken Jessie home and washed her down and fed her I sat down to watch television I flicked it to my favorite program and started to watch it dad grabbed the remote and quickly changed the channel I grabbed back the remote and was about to flick it again when jessie started to bark she barked at the tv as a middle aged man appeared on the screen he was tall and skinny and looked very scruffy Jessie snarled at him and lunged at the screen, what is she doing I said, I turned back to keep watching the man on the screen, charged for robbery the news presenter said, ohh I said now it all fits together the missing dog the barking the police at the neighbors house, thats why Jessie was barking at the tv, he must have taken her to stop the barking and locked her in the car and dumped the poor thing up in the mountains.

She was not very good at catching her own food by the look at her scrawny body shape, but I don’t mind at least she’s back I said to myself. Me and my dad put big tall sturdy fences so there was no way out. From that day on I always took very good care of her making sure she never left the house without me.

__Friday 24th June 2011__

One normal day I arrived home from a long boring day at school, I went into the house got out of my uniform and took my dog Jessie for a walk down on the beach. When mum got home she cooked dinner.Just before bed I took Jessie out into the garage and made her bed up on the stretcher, with her favorite blanket and toy. I always leave the garage door open a bit so she can go in and out during the night. 9 months with Jessie and it felt like I had had here forever.

I spent all day looking for my dog calling her and calling her but she never came. I sat by the phone hopping for a call from the pound or someone that had found her, no one called, where was she all the fences and gates are dog proof and anyways she has never left the property before. After about 2 weeks my parents told me to forget it but I didn’t, I knew I never would. After she had been gone for five months I still did not believe she was gone for good I had a feeling she was out there somewere. As I was walking to school I saw my mate patrick hopping of the bus I ran over to him when I got there he said “guess what” what I said I saw some paw prints that led off somewhere up in the mountains by my house, I shrugged and kept walking forgetting the fact that they could be Jessies anyway he tells you anything he just likes to please you he doesn't have to many friends.

When I thought about what he had told me I decided to have a look up in the mountains after school. The bell rang, today I caught the bus home with Patrick when we got to his house we dropped our bags and followed the prints, on and on they led then suddenly the prints stopped, what I said out loud, then suddenly I saw it a small musty cave I peered in to it I slowly walked in at the end of the cave there was a large skinny figure about 30 inches tall my dog was far smaller and was really fat not like this thing it was tall and anorexic, as I moved closer to the shadow it ran up to me licking my hands and face I ran out of the cave petrified into into the day light I ran, I barley recognized her it was Jessie tall and skinny totally the opposite to the last time I saw here, but I still had one question why was she all the way up here. That night when I had taken Jessie home and washed her down and fed her I sat down to watch television I flicked it to my favorite program and started to watch it dad grabbed the remote and quickly changed the channel I grabbed back the remote and was about to flick it again when jessie started to bark she barked at the tv as a middle aged man appeared on the screen he was tall and skinny and looked very scruffy Jessie snarled at him and lunged at the screen, what is she doing I said, I turned back to keep watching the man on the screen, charged for robbery the news presenter said, ohh I said now it all fits together the missing dog the barking the police at the neighbors house, thats why Jessie was barking at the tv, he must have taken her to stop the barking and locked her in the car and dumped the poor thing up in the mountains.

She was not very good at catching her own food by the look at her scrawny body shape, but I don’t mind at least she’s back I said to myself. Me and my dad put big tall sturdy fences so there was no way out. From that day on I always took very good care of her making sure she never left the house without me.

__Monday 4th July 2011__

__Paws__

Ahhh I said as I woke up and stepped out of the door into the early morning sun, Haa, what is that, “what” jenny said, staggering over to the door, I lifted out the small golden retriever who lay in the basket on the mat of the door. “So cute” I said to jenny, Now lets load him up and give it to the spca, not so fast I think he’s in need of a good home, we should keep him. After finally agreeing we got all o the gear and set up a pen and a bed with some food.



Four months later he had filled out some of his puppy roles and had turned into a manic puppy, ripping up pillows, scratching down walls, putting wet muddy paw prints all over the new lounge suite he was crazy, but we had both made such a good bond with him, we had to forgive him. Although he was a very expensive puppy.

We decided it would be a good idea to take him out for a lengthly walk, we put him on the lead and led him past the neighbors house and down into the really posh area of town, we walked past some of the houses and suddenly he stopped squatted down and did a horrible smelling dump, man we got so many dirty looks from the people that drove past it was the most embarrassing thing ever, he just acted like he had done anything and expected that he just get away with it he was wrong, the worst thing was is that we didn’t bring a bag to pick it up so we just kept walking knowing that we would not be taking sam for any more walks in this area.

When we got back we shut him in the shed and thought about taking him to obedience lessons that idea passed over and we decided we would do it by our selves. The next day we started with the basics sitting, sit I told him, nothing happened I made him sit by pushing him down I repeated this exercise so many times but it didn’t seem to get to him. Although he didn’t know the basics he knew a lot of other things like how to open closed doors how to most of all he knew exactly what to do when he had done something bad, put on those big brown puppy eyes and act all innocent it just seemed to work every time.

When he got to 9 months old we had started to trust him leaving him outside without someone right there making sure that he didn’t do what he dose best follow his nose to were ever it takes him, his nose rules his life. One day me and Jenny became to have enough trust to go out for lunch and leave him outside, we left the house in hope to come home to him sitting there on the door mat with no damage done. As we were eating our lunch we didn’t really enjoy it we were to worried about sam, what might he had of done were might he be all these images of him flashed through my mind, pulling out the neighbors rubbish eating the rabbits, walsing into the next door neighbors flash new home or just digging up someones lawn. We sat there worried, just hoping that he would not be up to mischief.

We drove home in hope that nothing bad would of happened, we didn’t think that he would just be sitting there in the end we never leave him home alone really for that long at the most half and hour. When we came through the drive I parked the car and called him over he came running up like we had been gone for months and through his big fluffy body up in the air and landed in a heap on the floor, “what a dopey dog” jenny laughed. We went over to investigate the house and that was when we saw it all of the deck chairs were just little pieces of chewed up nothing he had even had a good go at the metal poles that hold them together, we just stated at the mess AAA Jenny screamed in frustration why dose he have to make a mess every single time we just can’t trust him. That night I went over to the neighbors for a cup of tea and to let jenny cool down as I was walking over there I saw sam trying to break into the rabbit cage I quickly and quietly pulled him away he scamped off before I could give him a hiding, but he new I would be mad because he had managed to score one of the next door neighbors rabbits and swung it around until the cute fluffy rabbit became a pile if rabbit fur, suddenly I saw I wide shadow emerge behind me I didn’t want to turn around I forced my self to look whack his tail smacked into my eye, sam I said firmly you are in big trouble. Do you know how much damage you have done he just stood there wagging he tail. I was mad.



Two years later and sam was a different dog he would walk on a lead beside you, stay at home and not pull out the rubbish and rip up our furniture he was amazing. Me and Jenny had had enough of all of his bad behavior so we ripped into him and got it sorted it only took a couple of weeks to completely change his behavior.

__Charlie__

It was my seventh birthday and I was sitting in the lounge ripping the bright paper of my last present when I herd a loud voice call, “Hop in the car” mum said cheerfully aaa, I moaned, why “were going to nannies house”,when I was buckled in mum started the engine and we zoomed off down the road. On and on the car trip seemed to be never ending, past nanas turn off and onto a long endless country road.

Finally the car slowed to a halt and pulled into a pokey gravel driveway were a man that was certainly not my nanna turgid down the mossy steps, he greeted us and told me and my mum to follow him down the vertical hill, I walked down the steep slope next to my mum we came up to a little kennel with a few other dogs also running around nearby. We looked inside the musty old kennel inside was a small little black dog, “take him or leave him” the man said in a gruff voice. I looked at my mum puzzled “surprise” she said happily should we take him mum smiled, of course I said excitedly. When he was in the car we started the long drive home. I sat in the backseat with him we new that we would create a bond the would last forever. Why didn’t the man want him I questioned, he has lots of his own dogs to look after and couldn't re-home this little one any way he was found in the bush when he was just a tiny puppy.

Arriving home I took the little shar pie Labrador into the house and spent all afternoon with him patting him and playing with him I loved how he just lay there sprawled out on the soft carpet not twitching mussel.

His coat shined a silky jet black, while his nose glistened in the sun light, his gorgeous rolls piled up on top of each other and charlie’s deep brown eyes were just so forgiving you could never get mad at him.

I stayed outside in the alfresco with him all evening, his soft black hair running through my fingers felt like velvet his fur was light and silky like it had been washed100 times over.

I was so thrilled to have a puppy of my own he was adorable, charlie mostly slept through out the day and the night but when he was up and about he was extremely energetic and he liked to skid across the floor boards in the house he was perfect and always made me laugh. He was growing and learning fast he was nearly 6 months old, he knew how to do some basic tricks like sit, shake hands, stay and come. I don’t know what I would have done if I didn’t have him, as I looked into his deep brown eyes I knew that we were going to be best friends for ever.

After dinner I rushed back out to see him with his brand new collar in my hand, I slipped it over the little fat puppy’s rolly neck his new red collar made him look really snazzy. I was so exited that just felt like telling every one that I had got a puppy. When I went to bed it felt like the best day of my life I had been begging my mum to get a puppy for ages and finally she did and boy was I the happiest person ever.

The first few days with him were the best days of my life.

By the time he was fully grown he was smaller than a labrador but bigger than a shar pie, he was not as naughty as he used to be but he had a passion for wandering his nose ruled his life, if he smelt something like another dog he would chase it like he was a race horse. Charlie is a fantastic pet and I will never forget all of the good times we have had together every time I look into his eyes it feels like the first time we met each other.

A couple of years later when I came home from school on my 10th birthday mum had a big surprise, she cupped her hands over my eyes and led into the front garden and there she was another beautiful puppy,q but this one would be a whole new story.

THE END

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__Monday 13th June 2011__

__Creativity__

Always thinking up new things never once the same, her bright dress flows so gracefully dragging down behind her. Her large house filled florissant paintings everything so different. Through the mall she dances with her best friend imagination trying not to meet the eye of boring as he send shivers up her spine. Creativity's favorite shop is the craft shop were there are always new things to do making pitchers painting paintings sculpting weird and wonderful sculptures doing every thing she loves. Creativity always has something to do weather it is painting or dancing, writing or swimming she is never board not even a bit.

__Friday 10th June 2011__

__Love__

Tip toeing around quietly she does her job so gracefully sweet little smiles creep onto your face as love passes you by. Eyes filled with happiness her hair so golden and sleek skin as soft as a marshmallow. Her job is never failed as she reunites people every day