Every week at school, my students are required to write a one page diary entry. While some consider one sentence and a massive picture enough to satisfy this requirement, others produce some excellent writing which gives a little insight into what kids think about. Here's an example of an interesting story by Sandy (Heo Eun Sil) in my 2C Writing Class. She's 12 years old and has studied English for about three years:

The Paper Cups

One day, in the newspaper factory, there were two newspapers. They wanted to be great and beautiful paper cups. And a man took them and read them. And he put them in the separation removal box. They were sad. They were taken to a strange factory and they became paper cups! Then, they had another dream. That was: they wanted to have a beautiful pattern on their body. But one paper cup got a great pattern, but the other one got a common pattern. Then a man took them on to his table. And he was smoking. He put cigarette butts into the great pattern papercup. It was sad. And the other paper cup felt nervous. But the man poured water into it. He was thirsty. And he drank all the water in it, he said "Now, I'm not thirsty. Thank you paper cup." The common pattern paper cup was happy, and he learned, 'The way they look isn't important, deep down insides is all that is important.'*

*bonus points for having a moral