deir al asad comprehensive..english homework..activity on the poem- As I grew older by: langston hughes…..submitted by – adi badran…….submitted to – amira assadi

1. Table of Contents:

The poem “As I grew older” …………………………………………………………………………………3-10

Letter to langston hughes …………………………………………………………………………………11

My dream …………………………………………………………………………………12

It was a long time ago.
I have almost forgotten my dream..

But it was there then,
In front of me ,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Bright like a sun—
My dream.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

And then the wall rose,
Rose slowly,
Slowly   ,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Between me and my dream.
Rose until it touched the sky—
The wall.
Shadow.
I am black.
I lie down in the shadow.
No longer the light of my dream before me,
Above me.
Only the thick wall.
Only the shadow.
My hands!
My dark hands!

Break through the wall!
Find my dream!

Help me to shatter this darkness,
To smash this night,
To break this shadow
Into a thousand lights of sun,
Into a thousand whirling dreams
Of sun!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

letter to langston hughes:

as i grow older .. its the most beautiful poem i  have ever read.. i learned that we should always be optimistic..and  we have to keep a great hope and never give up .. in addition We have to overcome the obstacles that we face and persevere to get to our aim..

I appreciate your effort but i think that you reached to your goal and achieve what you need ..”your dream”.

dream :

Dream is something that all of us need to have

and its something that i want to do for my future.

so my dream is to be jeweler, and i think that my destiny is in this job.

my dad is a jeweler and this is the main reason because i want to help him and develop our job together.

i love this job ..its not simple at all but i can achieve it.