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We Lied to Fire Teacher!
James Curtis Geist has been a public school teacher for over twenty-one years. This book is filled with funny and poignant anecdotes of working as a teacher in the nutty-marvelous world of a classroom. The book takes a look at the challenges and pulse of life of public school life in the 21st century. Subjects include perfectionism, substitute teacher life, bosses, childhood flashbacks to school days, stories of students, sexual harassment, guns, covid, terrorism, unions and false accusations. This is about a thoughtful teacher contemplating public school challenges and solutions. Suffering brings change teaching us to become better human beings and teachers. This is a life story in educatio...
Essential Geist: Volume II: Selected Anecdotes & Poems: 2016-2019
James Curtis Geist has written eight books of poetry and anecdotes from 2016-2019. He has chosen his favorite of the 600 poems has written and put them into two volumes. The entries come from the heart and gut; are funny, personal and use conclusion-al observations and "zingers."Geist is a graduate of Nyack College and the Alliance Seminary. He has served in the pastorate in NYC for five years, and has been involved in fighting sweatshops, child labor, modern day slavery and genocide in Sudan. He has been a history teacher for 16 years in NYC and in Newark. He was voted Teacher of the Year in 2012 by his peers, and from 2016-2019 has written ten books. His students nicknamed him "Ron Burgandy" and "Mr. Incredible."Some of the topics covered in ESSENTIAL GEIST: Volume Two are Halloween, the Vagal Reflex, Mocking Birds. the Elks Lodge, modeling, house painting, Spanish Class, a few hooker stories, the Teamsters, his Uncle who use to walk his pet fish, and velocipedes.Many have referred to Geist's style as Bukowski-esque. The stories and poetry are ecletic, thought-provoking and humorous.
Modern Augustinian Confession
Geists memoir is written in the tradition of Saint Augustines book, Confessions. Confessions is considered the first Western autobiography chronicling the saints struggles with sin, lust, and his life in Christian ministry. With brutal honesty, Jim Geist shares stories of struggle with character defects, addiction, and obsessive-compulsive behavior. It is a series of antidotal stories from elementary school, little league sports, family stories, and funny stories from hunting camp, graduate school, ministry, and his job as a high school social studies teacher in New York City. In his fifteen years as an educator, dozens of students encouraged Mr. Geist to write a memoir because they found hi...
Global History Teacher Notes
This book contains over 150 lessons from World History or Global History that may be amended according to your state's standards, curriculum and mission of your school. As a new teacher in 1999, Geist says, "If I had access to a template of teacher notes from World History, it would have made my life more manageable." Geist took a personal day the beginning of the school year to write up a dozen lessons, only the next day to have his Assistant Principal tell him classes had been changed, and Geist now had new classes to teach. Geist says, "All the lessons I wrote up were for naught, and I cried that very night over the fact I had to write up new lessons for the new courses assigned to me." I...
Bottom of the Food Chain
Walt Whitman and William Wordsworth felt poetry should be about every day people and events. They also felt poetry did not have to be slave to the 18th century rhythm and rhyme. This is called free verse poetry, and Charles Bukowski also implores writers to get to the point as quickly as possible. Geist's Bottom of the Food Chain has poetry and anecdotes dealing with places he grew up in, jobs he has had, religious experiences, 12 step recovery, politics, teaching, ministry, relationships, dating, shaving, Allentown Pa, and many other topics. The pieces are funny, thought provoking and intriguing.
Adventures of Jimmy the 6th Grader
This series is about 6th grader Jimmy. He is 11 years old and loves life. These stories are based on true life events of James Curtis Geist. This second volume includes the following five stories about his experiences with 1) his paper route, 2) the circus, 3) a snow day off from school, 4) meeting world boxing champion Muhammad Ali, and 5) the annual Family Summer Party at the Farm. Each story runs 28-32 pages and were written between 2018 and 2021.
Guns and Butter; Bread and Roses
WARNING: If you have sore or broken ribs, or a hernia, do not buy this book. This book will make you laugh and cause you pain.This is Geist's sixth book of anecdotes and covers many topics from childhood, hotel sheets, gobblers and deer, Teamsters, the CIA, fishing, dirty car shaming, hot tub soup and a story of Helen Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan being arrested by Child Services.If you buy this book, you will become a fan of the writing of James Curtis Geist and find yourself buying some of his other books.
Adventures of Jimmy the 6th Grader
This a series about 6th grader Jimmy. He is an 11 year old who loves life and this volume contains five stories based on true events in the life of James Curtis Geist. This volume includes, 1) Jimmy's Summer Playground, 2) Jimmy's Beach Camping Trimp, 3) Jimmy's S-S-S-Summer Experience, 4) Jimmy's Yard Sale and 5) Jimmy's Fishing Trip. Each story is runs 28 to 32 pages long. These stories were written between 2018 through 2020.
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The Brothers Mankiewicz
Winner of the 2020 Peter C. Rollins Book Award Longlisted for the 2020 Moving Image Book Award by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Named a 2019 Richard Wall Memorial Award Finalist by the Theatre Library Association Herman J. (1897–1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane and shared the picture’s only Academy Award. Joe earned the second pair of his four Oscars for writing and directing All About Eve, which also won Best Picture. Despite triumphs as diverse as Monkey Business and Cleopatra, and Pride of the Yankees and Guys and Dolls, the witty, intellectual brothers spent th...
