In order to formulate a curriculum that was not repetitive, during our initial session we reviewed books and poetry Jaydn has studied over the past two years . Jaydn shared her reading preferences and thoughts on her past literature studies. We further discussed the use of writing double journal entries to record Jaydn's thoughts ,questions, and reactions to her reading. As Jaydn expressed an interest in the "horror" genre,I decided to start our year by reading some Edgar A. Poe short stories and poems. I shared a Poe website so that Jaydn could access a Poe biography and our first short story ,"The Tell Tale Heart", for tomorrow.