From Study

I had an English teacher whose name I cannot remember in A-11 (Power Reading) and B-12 (Advanced Composition). I think it must have been in Power Reading that I wrote a book report about “The Way of Zen” by Alan Watts. I was so totally entranced by the book that I wrote an ecstatic evocation of my experience of Nowness that was sort of manically flowing through me. It felt at the time like a whole new way of looking at the world had opened up. She was so impressed by where I was coming from that, for the Advanced Comp class, she said I wouldn’t have to come to class. I could do Home Study and write a research paper about the writings of JD Salinger. I don’t think she gave me any guidance. I mostly used one source and plagiarized heavily for my interpretation of the stories. I enjoyed reading his fairly small complete works, but didn’t really have the cognitive skills (or experience) to assess what I read. I did learn the technical format for writing a research paper.

#1.5 of SA1. Before college