The Mysterious Box

The Mysterious Box

“What’s his name?” my little sister, Noelle said.

“I don’t know,” I said. It was a really hot day. We were in the shade then. Not knowing what to name our dog.

“Maybe it should be Fluffy,” Noelle said.

“NO!” I said angrily.

It was in the middle of summer and we were in the Philippines. Noelle, my big sister, Rachel, my uncle and I were waiting for our mom because we were hungry and it was still 11:30. Then we heard a taxi coming. We saw the taxi go through the gate and I thought it was my mom. Suddenly the taxi stopped in front of our house. The door opened and my mom and grandmother came out. My grandmother was carrying all of the shopping bags but my mom, was only carrying a box and her bag.

What’s inside?” I thought. There was something sticking out of the box and it was moving.

“What’s that?” Noelle asked.

“You’ll see,” My mom said. She was putting the box down very carefully while she was talking. Suddenly a dog came out! It was long, thin and black. He was so energetic.

“Aww it’s so cute,” my sisters and I said.

Then we all started playing with him. When my little sister said, “What’s his name?”

All of us just realized that we hadn’t named the dog yet until Noelle asked that question. We were all thinking about what to name the dog when I asked if the dog was a boy or girl. My mom said it was a boy. There were suggestions like Mark and Mike and things like that. Then Rachel said she would think of names from books she has read. Then she thought about the name Max. From a book called Maximum Ride. We all thought about that name for the dog except it just didn’t sound right. We wanted to change his name but still have Max in it. We all thought of names like Max Millionaire but they just didn’t sound right. A name just popped into head. Maxie! I just shouted that name out loud and everybody heard me. We all agreed on the name Maxie. At last we got name for him! Now we can shout to our dog and say Maxie.

Vocabulary Words

Vocab Words:

1. Seizure- When muscles contract or expand and doesn't release. It is also uncontrollable.

2. Swarming- A group of living things moving around in a contained place.

3. Venture- a) Beginning a new thing. b) A journey

4. Dignity- A way of acting like being responsible or fair.

5. Knead- a) An action with your hands. b) Messaging c) Rolling some thing in your hands.

6. Illuminating- a) to light something up b) Getting an idea like in cartoons.

7. Virility- An attracted male.

8. Jittering- Moving in an unpatterned motion.

9. Hispanic- a) People from Mexico or South America. b) People who speak Spanish.

10. Trepidation- A feeling that something bad will happen, usually a felling with guilt.

The Vocabulary Words Sentences

The 10 Vocab Sentences:

1. The young ventriloquist is very talented.

2. That boy is very malicious to his little brother.

3. "Stop that bellowing" yelled the angry teacher.

4. People are mortal but, gods are immortal.

5. That amount of work is to overwhelming for me.

6. I made a blunder on my English homework.

7. I stood there idly watching the men work.

8. That homework is very perplexing for me.

9. The water was very rampant in the typhoon morakot.

10. My dad owns vast rice fields in my home town.