Jaydn and I shared that we were both nervous about our first day! She shared music and television shows that she likes and confided in me that she really did not like Edgar Allen Poe because he married his cousin, and she cannot tolerate pedophilia. She likes gothic horror and so I suggested we read a classic short story of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and subsequently Jaydn defined irony and we discussed how sometimes people are not what they seem to be as a precursor to reading. Jaydn shared that she is cognizant of the fact that she needs to gain an education to prepare for a better future. She would like to study technology and graphic design in college. She told me that she read Flowers for Algernon, Where the Crawdads Sing, and is reading The Call of the Wild. She would like to read some literature with a lighter theme and would like to avoid sad books. I explained that many books have themes and plots that are on the darker side. Jaydn shared that she really doesn't understand punctuation and that she would like to review that next session. She has a problem with run on sentences that she would like to rectify.