Copyright © 1972 by Brooks Eliot Wigginton
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The contents of this book need little introduction; they stand on their own as helpful instructions and enjoyable reading. But what is not immediately apparent is that the material here was collected and put
together almost entirely by high school students. And that makes the book a little special—for me at least, since the y were kids I was supposed to be teaching.
It was 1966, and I had just finished five years at Cornell. I had an A.B. in English and an M.A. in Teaching, and I thought I was a big deal—a force to be reckoned with. So I went to Georgia and took a job at the 240-pupil Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School where I taught ninth and tenth grade English, geography, and had about ten other side responsibilities. Rabun Gap is right in the Appalachians. God’s country, as they say here, and I’ll go along with that.