Teaching in public high schools, I am sometimes still surprised by the confusion some juniors and seniors may have concerning the terms “fiction” and “nonfiction.”
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Monthly Archives: May 2016
Using Glogster in the Classroom
Today I’m featuring samples of work done on Glogster, a free web tool you can use to create a digital collage. As a teacher, I find that tools like this one help students to learn to use digital interfaces to create simple, artistic projects that demonstrate their understanding of a subject while adding variety to assessment.
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The Subversive Book of Romans
Today I published a guest post on The Christian Exile on The Subversive Book of Romans.
I’m A Featured Poet at Contemporary American Voices!
I am happy to announce that the poetry website Contemporary American Voices has selected me as their featured poet for May 2016!
Three of my poems appear:
“Pilgrim”
“Contours”
“Happy Hour”
Along with my work, poetry of my brother, Lukas Guard, and an old schoolmate, Allison Boyd, also appears.
“My Bad”
I know the the first time I heard the phrase “my bad” I was playing basketball at church camp. I was about eleven or twelve. It was me and this older kid. We were just shooting around. I take a shot, it goes in, and he goes for it after it bounces back toward me. He takes his shot, misses, and then realizes he didn’t give me my change.
CALEB COY 