It's that time again... Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and therefore time for my students to write about their dreams after reading about and listening to King's dream. I hope you enjoy the hopeful, fresh, and innocent perspectives of my third graders as much as I do.
I would like to be an office person.
I want to be an electrician because my dad is… I also want to ride horses. I will have to learn how to work with wires and horses.
I have a dream of becoming an ocenogrfer. I will explore the depths. And I will discover plants and animals. Some will have never been discovered befour. I canNot wait.
I would like to become a writer when I am sixteen.
(A tiny piece of a long daydream revolving around horses): So I will take my horses to the beach and I will get on the horse and we will go in the shallow part of the water and ride and after that we will go home and me and the horses will drink lemonade and then we will go to the field and lay in the grass and have fun… (and she continues for two full pages.)
I want to be a teacher because I love school. Even though I don’t like some things about school like math, science, and writing I still want to be a teacher.
I want to be a football player. I don’t care which team I’m on I just want to be able to play football. But if posibol I want to play with the Eagles!
I have a dream that all my sisters and brothers will get along. (She meant that quite literally.)
(In the true spirit of MLK): I would like to make this earth to have peace together.
