I feel your sense of newness. I am teaching English II Standard and English II Honors for the first time this year. In my short career, 10th grade is the only high school grade that I have not taught before. I’m actually thinking that I can adapt some of the more original things that I did in English III last year (nonfiction, logic, certain teaching writing techniques) for 10th grade while finding my own way. I sort of look at it and go, “What were the kids struggling with when I had them at the start of last year?” and go from there.

And we got the kids back on Thursday.