Captain Kellers Business Letter

                                                                                            Captain Keller
                                                                                            Ivy Green
                                                                                            Tuscumbia, Alabama

                                                                                            Spring 1888

Mr. Anagnos
Perkins Institution of the Blind
Boston

Dear Mr. Anagnos,
               I must inform you that I need a teacher from your institute to help bring my blind daughter to see the light and to hear my voice. I will need an experienced teacher, one who can stand short tempers, bad manners, and tantrums, as my daughter does not know the meaning of discipline. She is both blind and deaf, so she may be a bit difficult to handle. At twelve years old, she might be a bit stubborn and difficult to handle. But I assure you, We will make the chosen teacher feel at home here in the south. To me, her blindness and deafness are her weakness, as she will not ever hear or see things around her. Your salary will be $25 per month, and thereby I expect to see results.

                                                                                                Sincerely,

                                                                                                Captain Keller

Teach Someone Something

I taught a math skill on how to multiply by 9 to my little sister who is 8 years old because in third grade, they are learning multiplication so the trick might be very helpful. At first, the lesson didn't go too well, she always got everything mixed up and backwards, and when I gave a little mini test, she got almost everything wrong, I almost threw a fit, but then I remembered she wasn't joking around with me. In the end, she got everything correct, though she still needed some time to think over it. The trick was to take the number you will be multiplying, and subtract one from it. For example, if you are multiplying six and nine, take the number six and subtract one from it, which is five. You put the answer on the left side of the answer box.Then, you look at what you have so far for the answer. Subtract it from nine, and the answer put it on the right side of the answer box, right next to the one on the left. For example, we have a five in the answer box, so you take nine and subtract five from it. the answer will be four. Put it right next to the five in the answer box. Your equation will now look like 6x9=54. When my sister finally got the hang of it and had every single answer on the "test" I made her, I had a feeling of great achievement, as if I had just finished all my homework or that I had reached my goals.