Warping young minds

Since going to K'ville to meet with my advisor, I've discovered that my digital portfolio, namely my research, wasn't ripped to shreds. I'm better off than I feared. So now that I don't' have to worry about that, I'm starting to think more about August... and all that that entails. In many ways I'm glad that I don't have any sort of guidelines or effective curriculum to follow - means I can do whatever I want a lot of the time - but still, that's a lot of emptiness that I have to fill. It's not like a math class where there is a logical procession from one lesson to the next and everything you're supposed to teach is spelled out and all you have to determine is HOW to teach it. With English, there is a TON of things I could teach. I have to consider what skills to teach, what things to read, what to write.... everything. That's a lot to consider. My problem is that without any guidelines at all, I can't make up my mind what to include in the year and what to leave out. I keep second guessing myself. It doesn't help that I don't even have textbooks to use as a guideline!! This should be an interesting year!