Teaching

KarenCoats

Dec 31, 20183 min read

Fall 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...

KarenCoats

Dec 31, 20182 min read

This semester of teaching was full of many bright spots. Here are just two: Projects! Storytelling and Civic Engagement The final project...

KarenCoats

Dec 31, 20184 min read

One of my favorite assignments is the end-of-semester Daybook Portfolio, which I have adapted from Brannon et al’s Thinking Out Loud on...

KarenCoats

Oct 19, 20184 min read

I 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...

KarenCoats

Oct 16, 20183 min read

As I mentioned in Part One of this blog post, teaching Alexie’s work enables me to have difficult, uncomfortable, important, and relevant...

KarenCoats

Oct 15, 20184 min read

I understand why many people have stopped teaching Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian. Many of my students,...