SAMPLE FRIENDLY LETTER
Mr. Fischer
6
th
Grade Language Arts
September 5, 2012
Friendly Letter
Dear Mr. Fischer
I am currently reading I Love School by Just Kidding.
The setting for this book is a little middle school in South Texas. The story takes place in the
small rural town of Imperial, Texas during the 1980’s.
There are some pretty interesting and funny characters in this story. They include Bubba Brown
a big, slow talking, fun to be around, and popular student. Jo Beth Backus (the protagonist) a shy, tiny,
class genius, and Mrs. K. (the antagonist) everyone’s worst nightmare for a teacher. Mrs. K is very tall,
not really attractive, and moody.
I have read about thirtyfive pages of the book so far, and the plot started with Jo Beth wanting to
be on the debate team but being too shy to ask Mrs. K. if she would sponsor her. The rising action
started when Bubba decided that he would take it upon himself to help Jo Beth by making a delicious
cake and leaving it in Mrs. K’s office with Jo Beth’s name on it. He worked very hard and spent the
better part of Sunday making the cake. He decorated it with icing in Mrs. K’s favorite color, purple. The
only problem was that when he added the coloring he added too much and the frosting turned black. He
left the black frosted cake on the teacher’s desk and everyone waited to see what his reaction would be.
That is as far as I have read this week.