More student work

It's hard to express how much I hate not writing in here on a weekly basis. This has been a living record of my life for the past 3 years, and I hate that my situation here in Dubai has so incapacitated me that I now can't even update this regularly.

Regardless, it's the end of the 3rd quarter, and I'm grading the final poems that my 8th graders produced. Here's one that I enjoyed:

Dream vs. Reality

I dream of going to Mars
I dream of being a mermaid
I dream of living in a palace
I dream of being a princess
But in reality,
I live in a closet of broken dreams,
All I hear are my screams,
I want this place to ignite the light
And let it shine
But I guess I'm dreaming again.

A thunderous night
Zeus' rage darkens the sky
Thaws away at dawn