Flowers for
Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
Answer the following questions with
the response “agree” or “disagree”
1. Testing measures how smart you are.
2. Your friends are always your friends no matter what.
3. Animal experiments are necessary to medical science.
4. It is possible to be too smart.
5. Stand up for your beliefs no matter what others may say.
6. It is good for wishes to come true.
7. People tend to make fun of people less fortunate than they are.
8. People are frightened of what they do not know.
9. It is ok to improve upon the way you are naturally.
10.Most people are never satisfied with what they have.
The Rorschach Test
The Rorschach Test (pronounced RAW SHOCK)
was developed by a Swiss psychiatrist named
Hermann Rorschach. This test was designed to
determine personality traits by interpreting a
subject's responses to inkblot images.
Directions: Look at the following inkblots and
decide what it looks like to you. Write down
your responses and then compare them with
those of your classmates. Were there any
similarities or patterns?
Rorschach Test/Inkblot Test
Wonderings
• How do students learn best.
• Research proves voice and the multi intell
has it all
Circumstances
• CSIP info
• Ballard High needs 10th grade reading
Methods
• Close reading
• High interest reading
• Mark up the text
Analysis
• Lit review; stories, clarity, debate
• Practice (swim coach)
Conclusions
•
Diagnostic and Proficient Reading Test Data
In week one I found out about the three types of readers I have
in period 5, I also delivered a pretest on reading skills defined as
state standards 1, 2, and 3 (Plot line, structure of narrative, and
point of view). The class averages are shown in Figure 3 :
•
In period five they had more students move across the types of
levels used for describing achievement. Period five started with
more struggling readers, thus gains are seen numerical more.
Notice in period 2 they also had students move to distinguished
levels of achievement. My analysis is that the close reading skills
gave all students a better set of skills than search, scan and answer.
I also believe that in period five they became invested into success
due to the fact that they used their personal stories as content
•
Implications
• Close reading needs to be universal, cross
content, all over the building should be
much of homework assigned.
Rorschach Test/Inkblot Test
Rorschach Test/Inkblot Test
Rorschach Test/Inkblot Test
Rorschach Test/Inkblot Test
Rorschach Test/Inkblot Test
Howard Gardner’s
Multiple Intelligences
• He believes that people have a
unique blend of intelligences.
• He argues that the challenge is how to
best take advantage of our unique
intelligences.
• These intelligences are amoral,
meaning they can be put to
constructive or destructive use.
Howard Gardner’s
Multiple Intelligences
1.Linguistic intelligence: involves sensitivity
to spoken and written language, the
ability to learn languages, and the
capacity to use language
2.Logical-mathematical intelligence:
consists of the capacity to analyze
problems logically, carry out
mathematical operations, and investigate
issues scientifically
Continued
3. Musical intelligence: involves skill
in the performance, composition,
and appreciation of musical
patterns
4. Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence:
the potential of using one's whole
body or parts of the body to solve
problems
5. Spatial intelligence: involves the
potential to recognize and use
the patterns of wide space and
more confined areas
Continued
6. Interpersonal intelligence:
concerned with the capacity to
understand the intentions,
motivations and desires of other
people. It allows people to work
effectively with others.
7. Intrapersonal intelligence: the
capacity to understand oneself,
to appreciate one's feelings,
fears and motivations.
Do Now:
Defining Intelligence
1. How do you define intelligence?
2. Should intelligence be tested?
Why or why not?
3. How does the traditional view of
intelligence compare to the
multiple Intelligences theory?
Conscious vs. Subconscious Thought
• Every thought you have develops from
your conscious thoughts.
• Your subconscious works on a level of
trust from your conscious thoughts.
• Your subconscious cannot differentiate
between good or bad.
• You use your conscious and
subconscious thought to fuel your
desires.
Author:
Daniel Keyes
The idea for Flowers for Algernon
came to me many years before I
wrote the story or the novel. "What
would happen if it were possible to
increase
human
intelligence
artificially?"
The
idea
for
the
character came about four years
later when I met and spoke to a
retarded young man and thought
how wonderful it would be if such a
technique were available to help the
mentally disadvantaged. But Charlie
Gordon is not real, nor is he based on
a real person: he is imagined or
invented, probably a composite of
many people I know -- including a
little bit of me. After a great many
false
starts,
I
discovered
the
technique of the Progress Reports.
With these three elements: the idea,
the character, and the narrative
strategy, I was well on my way.