After a few months of lesson planning I came to notice something. It wasn’t obvious to me at first, then suddenly it hit me. I used my lesson plans as a way for me to feed my insatiable desire to be curious (or nosy, prying, intrusive…). I often choose lesson topics based around what I want to learn from students! Not wholly or completely, I did try a few lessons on articles. I have attempted to improve their take on English grammar, ‘her hit me’ (when referring to a boy) and my open-class focused on their ‘I’m good at Englishey’ pronunciation. In the beginning I produced lessons on useful topics like directions and talking about family members – both of which heavily bombed. So this time around I decided to make it more of a win-win situation, often incorporating topics from which I can also learn from them. The most recent of these was to ‘create a bucket list’ – at 11 years old most of them aren’t thinking past what’s on the lunch menu that day, but eventually they took to it really well. I hope you enjoy reading some of the wonderful, and potentially terrifying, hopes and dreams of my first grade Korean middle school students…
First grade boys
- I want to without pain.
- I want to swim in mouny.
- I want to happy to die.
- I want to go to another world.
- I want to marry pretty girl like Laura.
- I want to clear my classmate.
- I want to explore many kinds of the biogeography.
- I want to make iron man suits.
- I want to be a hacker.
- I want to marry teacher.
- I want to sleep in the money bed.
- I want to got kiss.
- I want to fire the M-134 minigun.
- I want to find a new star.
- I want to give to poor people.
- I will be an LG telecom clerk.
- I want to live forever. *Next line* I want to know the feeling of death.
First grade girls
- I want to meet alien.
- I want to make a clone.
- I want to heaven wings.
- I want to make a boyfriend.
- I want to meet Justin Bieber.
- I want to be pretty.
- I want to sleep in homeplus.
- I want to see Korea reunification.
- I want to make an African American friend.
- I want to sleep with my friends.
- I want to never not die.
- I want to cure pimples.
- I want to white skin.
- I want to write books.
- I want to meet E.T.
- I want to talk with Obama.
It’s funny how accurate these are to most kids lives. I know many little boys and girls who would love to build the iron man suits and meet Justin Bieber. And yet, they also know pain and death. Kids are smart, I tell ya. This is such an amazing post and a really interesting blog!
Thanks a lot Sland! Yeah, they are so smart and cute, getting an insight into their minds is such a treat.
Awww, these quotes are adorable. Some are cute, some are sad but they are all entertaining. Thanks for sharing!
I’m glad you enjoyed them Faith. Thanks for reading!
This is awesome! Haha, I especially enjoyed “I want to marry teacher” and the student who wants to swim in money =p
Thanks Christine! Haha, yeah the ‘I want to marry teacher’ was a lovely ego stroke!