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Weekly Contest #29
Keith Manos 38705 North Bay Drive Willoughby, OH 44094 440-223-5394 (C) coachkm@sbcglobal.net website: www.keithmanos.com This could be true Dad worked as an optometrist. He wore a dark jacket to work but put on a white coat at his office. Like he was Dr. Kildare ready to perform surgery. And at the dinner table, Dad would usually lean over his plate to peer at my eyes, examining me to see if I was squinting. He’d make me hand him my glasses. He’d study the lenses for a moment, turning the frames over in his hands. Then hand them back and...
Weekly 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? “Maybe on Saturday,” she had claimed in that tinny voice of hers, leaning her strained face toward his like she was examining his eyelashes, and then had almost shouted, “Work is crazy. We’re so busy.” Busy? Sue and her husband Rich, Ji...
Weekly 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. Did we accomplish it? I ...
Weekly Contest #15
Algebra 2, Monday Morning School 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. David Attenborough, the narrator in his grandfather...
Keith Manos 3000 words 38705 North Bay Drive Willoughby, OH 44094 www.keithmanos.com Email: coachkm@sbcglobal.net 440-223-5394 (C) Waiting for Dinner [A short story] “ . . . 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? He’d have to wait at least a week because, acc...
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