Keith Manos

“This could be true” by Keith Manos

Submitted to Contest #29

Keith Manos                                                            38705 North Bay DriveWilloughby, OH  44094440-223-5394 (C) coachkm@sbcglobal.netwebsite:  www.keithmanos.com    This could be trueD...

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“Waiting for Dinner” by Keith Manos

Submitted to Contest #20

“ . . . can you play me a memory? I’m not really sure how it goes, but it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes” [Billy Joel]   Regarding Sue, his mindless sister-in-law, Jim decided to confront her later.              Of course, when she visited again.               What else could he do?             &...

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“Shopping Curriculum” by Keith Manos

Submitted to Contest #19

Teaching rule #1:  Formulate the curricular objective. That’s a fancy academic expression that simply means to create a goal. Every teacher – even the newbies like me – knows that, and every administrator checks for it when he or she does an observation to evaluate a teacher. The objective is what you want to accomplish by the end of a lesson. Call it a single to-do task for the day. Like today in Algebra 2, my objective was to solve one variable linear function, a typical lesson for the beginning of the school year.  &nb...

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“Algebra 2, Monday Morning” by Keith Manos

Submitted to Contest #15

Algebra 2, Monday MorningSchool starts way too early. It’s only third period, and already I’m exhausted. Which is my own fault for staying up late last night watching a Planet Earth II episode on Netflix. I can’t believe someone with a camera waits for hours and hours by a pond in the jungle to film five seconds of a frog snapping its tongue out at a dragonfly. Last night’s show eventually was about African elephants, and when it got to the part about them mating, I couldn’t stop watching.       &...

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“Waiting for Dinner” by Keith Manos

Keith Manos            3000 words                                                                          &...

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