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Article #596595Re: E.R. Burroughs
From: Lawrence Statton NK1G
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 17:04
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 17:04
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Michael Black <et...@ncf.ca> writes: > In grade 7, I tried to read a "Get Smart" novel (from the tv series), > we were supposed to read something and write a book report. The > teacher made me pick another book. > I remember, very vividly, in Grade 6 we had to do weekly book reports, and the teacher had a very specific format he wanted -- characters, setting, a couple of other details that I've forgotten, and a small fraction of pupil-written narrative. At the time, I was getting seriously interested in electronics, so my free-time reading was mostly 7400 and 4000-series databooks. In an effort to subvert his system, I did one on an 8080 programming manual -- the "characters" where "The Accumulator", the "HL Register Pair" ... Setting was "8 Kilobytes of read-write Memory". I got a "C" on that report. It frustrated my father no end, that I voraciously read anything I could get my hands on, and had a vocabulary that far exceeded my peers, but I was getting a "D" in Reading, because what I read did not fit into Mr. George's pattern of what a 12 year old should be reading.
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