KarenCoatsDec 31, 20183 min readFall Semester Highlights: Part II, the Books!YA Insights! I love teaching YA literature. I should note that I structured the class this semester so that students led the discussion...
KarenCoatsDec 31, 20182 min readFall Semester Highlights: Part IThis semester of teaching was full of many bright spots. Here are just two: Projects! Storytelling and Civic Engagement The final project...
KarenCoatsDec 31, 20184 min readThe Daybook PortfolioOne of my favorite assignments is the end-of-semester Daybook Portfolio, which I have adapted from Brannon et al’s Thinking Out Loud on...
KarenCoatsNov 22, 20184 min readThanksgiving, History, and the Sources of PrivilegeI woke up this morning with a song we sing in church running through my head: “My heart is filled with thankfulness To Him who bore my...
KarenCoatsOct 29, 20184 min readProfessoring While Christian When I started this blog, I thought one of the things I’d like to write about was how my faith integrates with my work. Because there are...
KarenCoatsOct 19, 20184 min readAvoiding a Single StoryI probably should have called this post “Why I Still Teach Absolutely True Diary, Part 3.” As I noted in Part 1 of that post, one reason...
KarenCoatsOct 16, 20183 min readWhy I Still Teach Absolutely True Diary, Part TwoAs I mentioned in Part One of this blog post, teaching Alexie’s work enables me to have difficult, uncomfortable, important, and relevant...
KarenCoatsOct 15, 20184 min readWhy I Still Teach Absolutely True Diary, Part OneI understand why many people have stopped teaching Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian. Many of my students,...
KarenCoatsOct 15, 20181 min readDo I have time for this?Or maybe more to the point--do you have time for this? I have a lot of friends who write really terrific blogs, and I try to read them....
