Candle in the Wind

I teach in a very high poverty area, and sometimes I forget that my students' living circumstances greatly affect their perspectives of the world. This week, one of our vocabulary words was "flickered" so I asked students a question to help them with their understanding of this word.

I said, "Have your parents ever had a candle burning in the house and someone opens a door, and you see the flame flicker from the wind?"

Mario yelled out, "Yeah! I seen that with my momma's cigarette lighter!"