journal

In the high school, the first and second year English majors keep a weekly journal with one of the foreign English teachers. They write one page a week in English, and we write one page back to them. One of my junior high students is very smart, and she writes 6-10 pages a week to me, just for practice. It's really amazing! I don't know many junior high students who are so motivated and hard-working. Below is her journal entry from this past Thursday.

Today, I knew a new president in the US. He is Mr. Obama. I'm very glad. I support him. This incident will go down be recorded in history. Now, I study about Martin Luther King Jr. in English class. "I have a dream. One day my four little children will not be judged by the color of their skin . . . ." He said this in a speech in 1963. He had a dream that is important to all of us. His dream was equality for all Americans, black and white. He was a person that lived for this dream. He fought for it, and he died for it. His dream lives on. Now, Mr. Martin Luther King is smilling. Mr. Obama changed the history.