Day 1- 5/10/21

 My first experience as an English teacher has begun. Today, I was able to complete the first two daily agendas of my expected thirty to make up the entirety of a semester course. The first day focused around two different radio pieces; the first, an NPR special interview with Ilan Stavans, who created an anthology of coronavirus pandemic experiences through global authors in a book called And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again, the second piece from NHPR on the increase in poetry activity as a result of the pandemic. I have selected Stavans anthology as one of the primary texts of the course as well as Station Eleven. I coordinated with Morgan Hill Bookstore to get both texts and have been able to start Station Eleven with And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again coming within the next couple of days. The title for And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again comes from Dante's Inferno, so additionally I read the Capo XXXIV of that classic text, watched an analysis, and included it in the first class agenda. For the second day, I have included the poems "Kindness", "Still I Rise", and "Invictus", to read an annotate. The process of taking on the role of an English teacher has been a fun and challenging one. I worked for six hours today from 9am to 2pm, between writing descriptions, researching materials, reading those very materials, and getting the books from Morgan Hill. I expect each day to follow a similar time frame going forward with a greater time being dedicated to just reading as I will have to read the entirety of the two books which I will continue to depend on for creating assignments.