Week 2 reflections

A professor I had never met until this week thinks I am crazy for trying to teach full time and take three courses for the Master's program. He is proving to be right. It has been an insane week, however, it has also been a week full of pure learning. In my two lit courses I have already learned so much to help the students in the AP literature course I teach. The critical pieces of writing are helping to resharpen my mind in terms of looking at books as more than simply words on paper. We are digging deep into our current text, Things Fall Apart, with the help of critical essays. On the composition side, the John C. Bean text has opened my eyes to realizing how much more I can be doing to help my students with writing. My brain is moving in a ton of different directions now, and it has been stressful, but also fun. The problem I am running into is time management, of course. But, I am also running into this issue of wanting to do it all. I want to completely overhaul my curriculum for next school year. My brain has shifted over to next school year already. It is crazy how much of my time is spent planning the future classes, fixing all of the things that are not currently working. On top of my regular teaching and Sac state load, I am also planning to teach AP Language next year, something I have never done, as well as writing a complex yearbook class curriculum with the hope of submitting it to the UC system to get the class approved for their A-G high school graduation credit. All the while trying to lose 35 pounds this year, get my novel published, and continue writing fiction in the hopes of jump starting a fiction career I put of for a decade out of fear. It's a big time in my life. I know in the next few years kids will be a reality, but I feel like that's a post for my actual journal.