Juan's+stories

157 Baker Ave Wharton, NJ 07885 March 4, 2011 Mr. Bocchino 137 East Central Ave Wharton, NJ 07885 Dear Mr. Bocchino, // Walk Two Moons // should stay in the curriculum because seventh graders can relate to the book by there age, how they act, their experience, and their feelings for some one or something that the characters in the book felt. One example is when Phoebe’s mother left, Phoebe was sad and was over exaggerating like when she finds her mothers old sweater and waves it in front of her dad saying “look this is mom’s favorite sweater. Would she leave this behind?” this can relate to a lot of kids my age because sometimes dramatic events happen in their life and some times they refuse to except what happened. Another reason this book should stay in the curriculum is because if this book is put down a few grades the kids might take the sayings that the book says literally like when Phoebe get’s a message on her front door steps one of them said “You can’t keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.” Another saying the book says is, “Don’t judge man until you’ve walk two moons in his moccasins.” One last saying Phoebe gets is “in the course of a life time what does it matter.” My last reason // Walk Two Moons //is that 7th graders can under stand what is going on and why for example when Phoebe and Sal sneaked into Mrs. Cadaver’s house, her mother Mrs. Partridge knew when she was there because she said that Sal had a particular smell. Another example was when Sal’s mother is in the hospital and is giving birth to Sal’s sister Sal was sitting outside in the waiting room the doctor was walking out of the room she stood up and looked at the baby and saw that she was purple and there was a whit mark on her neck which showed that the baby was strangled, some little kids might not know what happened. One last example is when Sal and her grand parents stop at a lake the sit next to it and dip there feet in then they see a man walking to them saying this is privet property and that they shouldn’t be there he picks up Gramps pants that he took off and was searching his pockets and his wallet for money. Sincerely, Juan Contreras

Going camping at P.A

"Mom do we have everything ready for the campout" I said "Yes we do we just need to wait for your dad to come back from work" said my mom from the upstairs bedroom "ok well I’m going to my friends house don’t worrier I have my cell phone and my jacket" I yelled as I left the front door I started to walk down the steps and onto the side walk it must have been 3:40 maybe so I kept walking I got there and knocked on the glass Eugene opened the door and said "hey what’s up so at what time are you going camping" "I don’t know not until my dad comes back with all the things we have I think it must be fun I even got my PSP, Bb gun, and my binoculars so any way what do you want to do” I said “um lets go to my room maybe we can handle my ball python

About the Author: Hello my name is Juan, I am in 7th grade, I live in wharton New Jersey I like to play out side i like to wrestle and play video games.