Introduction to the class

I am from a suburb of Knoxville called Powell, TN. It is a small town just to the north of Knoxville. I attended Powell High School, and it was in that school that I found my inspiration to become a teacher. My senior English teacher really sparked my interest in the realm of education. She had a way of coming up with creative assignments that made English class incredibly interesting for me. She also had a wonderful way of facilitating discussions in the classroom which really opened my eyes to the world of literature in regards to literary devices and how they function within a work. I plan to teach high school English, preferably 11th and 12th grades and I also plan to coach high school football. I am entering my fifth season as an assistant football coach at Powell and will be doing my internship there in the Fall. Coaching takes up the majority of my free time between practices, film breakdowns, and workouts, but I also umpire youth league baseball in my free time which I enjoy a great deal. Obviously, I love to be around sports and they serve as a release for me; a way to get away from the grind of school and all of those sorts of things. My experience with computers is fairly limited. I do a good bit of social networking on Facebook and things like that. I do surf a couple of forums that pertain mostly to sports and coaching. Beyond that, my experience is limited to Microsoft Office things like PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.