Name: ______________________
Secret Agent Name: ____________
Total: ___________/ 30 points
Flowers for Algernon
Progress Report 1
What details in the opening paragraph help you to make inferences about Charlie’s situation?
1)
Looking at Charlie’s errors in ______________ and ______________, we can infer he has
__________ than average ________________ for a thirty-seven year old.
Progress Report 2
2)
Is this story in first person point of view or third person’s point of view?
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3) What words do you see that indicate what type of point of view it is?
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4) How did Charlie spell Rorschach? ________________________
Rorschach Test: This test is more commonly known as the inkblot test. The Rorschach Test 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.
Here are some examples of the test: What do they look like to you?
Progress Report 3
5) What does the word literal mean? ____________________________
Example: If someone said, “She was a whirlwind of activity,” that does not mean that she literally
became a whirlwind.
6) What does Charlie’s failure to understand the tests reveal about his personality and abilities?
(hint: use the word ‘literal’)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7) Why does Charlie go to Miss Kinnian’s class?
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8) What does the first-person point of view show about Charlie’s experience with the doctors?
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Progress Report 4
9) Why is Charlie happy?
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10) How does Dr. Nemur feel about Charlie being in the experiment?
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11) How does Dr. Strauss feel about Charlie being in the experiment?
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12) What is the significance of a 68 I.Q.?
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Progress Report 7
13) Why does Charlie think writing the progress reports are stupid?
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March 25
14) What does it mean to “Pull a Charlie Gordon?”
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March 28
15) What does Dr. Strauss give to Charlie?
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16) How can the reader tell Charlie is getting smarter from the operation?
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17) Why do you think the author choose to write this story in first-person point of view?
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Progress Report 9 –April 3
Would you like Joe and Frank to be your friends? Why or why not? (use complete sentences)
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April 6
Draw a picture of Charlie beating Algernon (Don’t take this literally)
April 17
18) Circle the mistakes in the following paragraph:
One thing I? like about, Dear Miss Kinnian: (that’s the way it goes in a
business letter if I ever go into business) is she, always gives me’ a reason” when –
I ask. She’s a gen’ius! I wish! I cou’d be smart” like her; (Punctuation, is; fun!)
April 20
19) How does the use of first-person point of view help you to sympathize with Charlie?
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April 25
20) Why do Charlie’s co-workers behave differently toward him?
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April 27
21) What does “…trying to ride on his coattails” mean?
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April 30
22) Why do you think Charlie’s co-workers signed the petition to have him fired?
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May 20
23) Why is Charlie so upset about the dishwasher?
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May 23/May 24
24) What is so upsetting about the changes in Algernon described in these entries?
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June 10
25) What happened to Algernon?
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26) Based on the theory of the Algernon-Gordon Effect, what will happen to Charlie?
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June 23
27) What are some signs that Charlie’s mental state is rapidly reversing?
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July 14
28) How does the first-person point of view help you to understand Charlie’s experience?
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July 27
29) How has Charlie’s view of his co-workers changed?
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Respond:
30) Do you think Charlie should have had the operation? Why or why not? (Be ready to share your
answer in class.)
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