Writing and Inspiration
Welcome to the cKotch.Com blog. I’m Christopher Kotcher, and this is one of my wildest weeks of substitute teaching. Another Week on the Job I am lucky. My teaching career started with a year as a resident adviser and substitute teacher at my old high school St. Mary’s. No place can give me stories quite … Read more My Week as a Geometry Teacher
Welcome to the cKotch.Com blog. I’m Christopher Kotcher, and this is a neat little book that taught me a neat little lesson. A New Way to Find Books One of my more pleasant surprises after college has been the University of Michigan’s alumni magazine. This quarterly publication is a pretty good read. It features many … Read more People Are People
Welcome to the cKotch.Com blog. I’m Christopher Kotcher, and this is the story of my other major literary project. Comic Beginnings My eighth grade English class featured writing units in between grammar units. These writing units were based around yearlong groups. Each unit gave each group receiving one of several color-coded binders. Binders had all … Read more From Hilarity to Heroism
Welcome to the cKotch.Com blog. I’m Christopher Kotcher, and this is the class that expanded my bookshelf. One Late Reader I was a writer before I became a reader. My first project written for myself was written in grade school. My first book read for myself, not for school or parental bribes, was read in … Read more How I Got Into Young Adult Literature