Week 9: Imaging the future

Students read Afternoon by Dorothy Parker this week. Next I asked the students to imagine themselves twenty years in the future. The students were required to answer a number of questions about their future selves: What kind of job will you have? Will you have a family? What will it look like? What kind of transportation will you use? What will concern your thoughts? And so on. We ended up with some great futures...

From Ms. Gonzalez's Class:

When

When I am thirty years old,
I will be a football player.
I will have a wife
and two kids.

I will have a big house
with a lion as a pet.
My cars are going to
be a Lamborghini and a Bentley.

I will have a happy
life with my two kids.
When I am hungry
I will go to my restaurant.

I will make my
dad the owner, because
he always wanted
to have his own restaurant.

By Carlos S.


When

When I am old, I dream me
with my two babies, one girl and
a boy. I want to get married.
I want to be a fashion designer.

My babies, I will love them
with all my heart. They are my babies
to take care of. I will cry for
all the happiness that dreams

they do come true (but not everything).
I want to get married.
Then everything will change,
married to the man I love.

My big dream is become a fashion
disigner and have a big store by me.
I have dreamt this since I was thirteen.
I have my dream that it will be true.

By Daisy C.


When

When I am happy and old
I will be a doctor,
I will buy my house when its cold
I wont be taller.

By Salvador R.



From Ms. Formisano's Class:

When

When I am in U.S. Cellular Field,
I’m beating the cubs.
I’m playing shortstop using my glove as a shield.
Cubs’ pitcher is letting Sox players do homeruns, his name is Chubs.

Crowd cheering high and low.
I’m coming to the plate with my bat,
I hit the ball hard, the crowd says to the ball, “Go!”
The Cubs’ coach felt sad so he sat.

I’m on the defense playing shortstop,
A Cubs player hits the ball,
The ball is coming to me, it hits my glove making a loud sound
like something hitting a pot.

By Jose D.






When

When I’m thirty, and I own my bakery,
my kids will be filled up with sugar and
candy. I’ll be the rock n’ roll/mom/owner/lady
who ownes the bakery on the corner and who
lives in a nice cozy home with two puppies.

I’ll be driving a mini cooper it will be
so small not all my kids will fit! (Yes!)

By Nailha S.


When

When I am thirty and a lawyer,
and making lots of money,
with four kids boys,
and with my honey,

I’ll be dresses in a suit,
I’ll also be bald,
and with cool Timberland boots.

By Steven V.

When

Here I am at age thirty
working at Burger King,
minimum wage no breaks,
not even on holidays.

By Servando R.


From Mr. Lukas's Class:

When I’m Thirty

When I’m thirty
I will study
about germs
and cures.

I will have a lab
suit and glasses
to help people
and kids

I will have a
car to go to work
and I will find
germs that they
never had names for,
and never had heard of.

When I come home
I will go to sleep
but first I will tell my husband
about my crazy week.

By Juana R.


Afternoon

When I’m twenty six and older
and have my own business
and make my own money,

I’ll wear all kinds
of clothes like
bright colors because
it makes me shine.

I would like to have
a Mercedes in my future
or a cool car that I
will like, because
every year they make
a new car.

For me all that
I am chasing is
my career that I
have ahead of me.

By Cynthia R.


When

I want to be a firefighter,
To be married and to have
a baby boy.

I would look like a man with a moustache
and wear casual clothes everyday.
I would use my Ford Mustang to get around
and the fire truck.

My future self would think
of my wife and my child,
if my wife was okay and also my son.
And think, can I help people
get out of a burning building.

My wife would be smart and would
know how to cook and she would
always love me and she caring and
she wants our son to have a great
education.

My Mom and Dad would live
in Mexico and they would be
healthy and they would live
to see their grandchild graduate
high school and college.

By Heriberto P.