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We Are No Stephen Kings: The Reluctant Road from Coal Miner to Classoom

By: Aida Mainella Everhart
Publication: The Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 3
Date: Summer 1997

Summary: Teaching a "transition class" to a group of unemployed coal miners, Everhart finds that reading, writing, and writing poetry in particular prepare and motivate her students for the challenges that lie ahead.

 

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