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8 ELA Q4: WEEK 2 March 22-26, 2021
MONDAY FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON Accessible Level Text Read and Annotate COMPREHENSION
CHECK
____/10 TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON Accessible Level Text Complete Comprehension Check (1-6)
THURSDAY CONCEPT VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY Complete concept vocabulary worksheet
LITERARY SKILLS
____/10
FRIDAY FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON Selection Test Complete the selection test
ASSESSMENT /100%
When you complete the packet, you may return it with any of the following options:
A curbside drop box is located at the front of the TMS school building. Drop off the packet at the TMS front office. Return it to the bus driver on the following Monday and pick up a new packet. Scan each page & send it to your teacher’s email address.
If you have any questions about these assignments, please email your teacher or call TMS at 928-729-6811.
This version of the selection alternates original text with summarized passages. Dotted lines appear next to the summarized passages.
“Flowers for Algernon” is the story of Charlie Gordon. The story is told using Charlie’s diary. Charlie is a 37-year-old with a low IQ, or intelligence quotient. An IQ is a way of measuring human intelligence. Scientists believe that most people have an IQ score between 85 and 115. Charlie is the subject of a scientific experiment to make him smarter. He calls his diary entries “progress reports.” Charlie uses poor spelling and simple sentences. The reader can tell that he is not a smart or educated man.
progris report 2–martch 6
I had a test today. I think I faled it. and I think that maybe now they wont use me. What happind is a nice young man was in the room and he had some white cards with ink spillled all over them. He sed Charlie what do you see on this card. I was very skared even tho I had my rabits foot in my pockit because when I was a kid I always faled tests in school and I spillled ink to.
Charlie attends reading classes for slow adults. His teacher, Miss Kinnian, has recommended Charlie for the scientific study. Charlie is discouraged by the Rorschach test1 he took. He is afraid that the doctors will not accept him for their study. Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur are scientists. They are studying intelligence. They have done experiments on mice. Now, they want a human to be involved in their experiments.
progris riport 3–martch 7 …
Later some men in white coats took me to a difernt part of the hospitil and gave me a game to play. It was like a race with a white mouse. They called the mouse Algernon. Algernon was in a box with a lot of twists and turns like all kinds of walls and they gave me a pencil and a paper with lines and lots of boxes. On one side it said START and on the other end it said FINISH. They said it was amazed2 and that Algernon and me had the same amazed to do. I dint see how we could have the same amazed if Algernon had a box and I had a paper but I dint say nothing. Anyway there wasnt time because the race started.
The scientists have Charlie and Algernon try to get through the mazes. One doctor has a watch and times them. Charlie feels nervous. The experiment is repeated more than 10 times with different mazes. The mouse, Algernon, wins every time. Charlie feels bad.
ANCHOR TEXT | SHORT STORY
Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
1. Rorschach (RAWR shahk) test n. a psychological test that requires the subject to describe the images suggested by inkblots.
2. amazed Charlie means “a maze,” or a confusing series of paths. Often, the intelligence of animals is tested by how fast they go through a maze.
GRADE 8 • UNIT 4 • Accessible Leveled Text • Flowers for Algernon 1
Their going to use me! Im so exited I can hardly write. Dr Nemur and Dr Strauss had a argament about it first. Dr Nemur was in the office when Dr Strauss brot me in. Dr Nemur was worryed about using me but Dr Strauss told him Miss Kinnian rekemmended me the best from all the pepul who she was teaching. I like Miss Kinnian becaus shes a very smart teacher. And she said Charlie your going to have a second chance. If you volenteer for this experament you mite get smart. They dont know if it will be perminint but theirs a chance.
Charlie agrees to be a part of the experiment. It includes a surgery in which doctors will try to triple his intelligence. Charlie wants to be smart. He is very excited, but a little scared about the operation.
Charlie has the operation on March 10. The doctors take the bandages off Charlie’s eyes several days later so that he can write his progress reports. The progress reports still have many spelling and writing errors. Charlie is afraid that the surgery did not make him smart. He takes the inkblot test again but is still confused.
Dr. Strauss tells Charlie that Algernon had an operation, too. The operation seems to have made the mouse smarter. Charlie does the mazes again with Algernon. Algernon beats Charlie’s times on the maze. The doctors tell Charlie to go back to work. They ask him to keep writing his progress reports. Dr. Strauss tells Charlie not to get discouraged. He explains that it may take time for the operation to work. It took time for Algernon to improve, too. Charlie goes back to work at the factory. He works as a janitor.
Mar 25
(I dont have to write PROGRESS REPORT on top any more just when I hand it in once a week for Dr Nemur to read. I just have to put the date on. That saves time)
We had a lot of fun at the factery today. Joe Carp said hey look where Charlie had his operashun what did they do Charlie put some brains in. I was going to tell him but I remembered Dr Strauss said no. Then Frank Reilly said what did you do Charlie forget your key and open your door the hard way. That made me laff. Their really my friends and they like me.
Dr. Strauss visits Charlie at home. He gives Charlie a small machine that looks like a television. Dr. Strauss tells him to turn it on all night while he sleeps. He says it will help make Charlie smarter. The doctor tells Charlie that Miss Kinnian will now teach him at the hospital. Charlie finds out that the hospital is actually a laboratory.
Charlie writes about going to a party with his coworkers Joe and Frank. They make fun of him and are cruel to him. But when Charlie writes about it, he thinks they were being nice to him. Charlie is very eager to have friends.
April 6
I beat Algernon! I dint know I beat him until Burt the tester told me. … But after that I beat him 8 more times. I must be getting smart to beat a smart mouse like Algernon.
GRADE 8 • UNIT 4 • Accessible Leveled Text • Flowers for Algernon 2
NOTESCharlie gets to hold Algernon in his hand. Burt tells Charlie that Algernon has to solve a test every day to get his food. Charlie feels sorry for the mouse. He decides to be friends with Algernon.
Charlie continues to work with Miss Kinnian. He learns new things every day. He teaches himself how to type.
April 15
Miss Kinnian says Im lerning fast. She read some of the Progress Reports and she looked at me kind of funny. She says Im a fine person and Ill show them all. I asked her why. She said never mind but I shoudnt feel bad if I find out that everybody isnt nice like I think. She said for a person who god gave so little to you done more then a lot of people with brains they never even used. I said all my frends are smart people but there good. They like me and they never did anything that wasnt nice. Then she got something in her eye and she had to run out to the ladys room.
Charlie continues to learn as his intelligence grows. The operation is working. Charlie begins to understand how slow he was before the operation. He reads his old progress reports. He wants to correct the mistakes. Miss Kinnian tells Charlie the doctors want to see the change in the progress reports.
Charlie goes to another party with Joe and Frank. He understands now that they are laughing at him. He is embarrassed. Charlie doesn’t go to work for a few days.
Charlie is now getting smarter very quickly. Dr. Strauss gives him more tapes to hear while he sleeps. Charlie wants to learn more things. Miss Kinnian thinks he should learn different languages. Charlie and Burt have a conversation about Charlie’s IQ. Charlie’s IQ was 68 before the surgery. The doctors have told him it will be over 200 soon.
Charlie takes more Rorschach tests. Before the surgery, Charlie thought he was supposed to find hidden pictures in the inkblots. Now, he understands that he is supposed to describe what the inkblots make him think of. He doesn’t trust the doctor anymore.
Charlie’s new intelligence begins to have an effect on his job at the factory. Mr. Donnegan is his boss.
April 25
I figured out a new way to line up the machines in the factory, and Mr. Donnegan says it will save him ten thousand dollars a year in labor and increased production. He gave me a $25 bonus.
I wanted to take Joe Carp and Frank Reilly out to lunch to celebrate, but Joe said he had to buy some things for his wife, and Frank said he was meeting his cousin for lunch. I guess it’ll take a little time for them to get used to the changes in me. Everybody seems to be frightened of me. When I went over to Amos Borg and tapped him on the shoulder, he jumped up in the air.
People don’t talk to me much any more or kid around the way they used to. It makes the job kind of lonely.
GRADE 8 • UNIT 4 • Accessible Leveled Text • Flowers for Algernon 3
NOTESCharlie hears Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss arguing. He realizes that the doctors are competing with each other. They want to use the successful experiment with Charlie as a way to move ahead in their careers.
April 27 ...
When I left afterwards, I found myself trembling. I don’t know why for sure, but it was as if I’d seen both men clearly for the first time.
Charlie takes Miss Kinnian to dinner. When he was slow, he thought she was old and smart. He realizes now that she is young and beautiful. Miss Kinnian tells Charlie that he will soon be smarter than she is. Charlie decides that he is in love with Miss Kinnian.
Charlie is forced to quit his job at the factory. The other employees signed a petition. They do not want Charlie there anymore. They don’t like how he has changed, and they are afraid of his intelligence. Charlie feels ashamed and lonely. People laughed at him when he was slow. Now, people hate him because he is smart.
The lab pays Charlie a salary. He is required to write progress reports as proof of the experiment’s success. Charlie is smarter than the people around him. He describes the doctors, who do not seem as smart to Charlie as they did several weeks ago.
May 15 …
Contrary to my earlier impressions of him, I realize that Dr. Nemur is not at all a genius. …
I was shocked to learn that the only ancient languages [Dr. Strauss] could read were Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and that he knows almost nothing of mathematics beyond the elementary levels of the calculus of variations.
Charlie is frustrated when he tries to talk to people. He is so intelligent now that people do not understand him. He is surprised and disappointed when people do not know the things he has learned. He begins to spend most of his time alone in his room. Charlie must speak and write simply so that people will not stare at him or feel uncomfortable.
Charlie describes going to a diner. He sees a teenaged boy drop some dishes. The customers in the diner laugh and make fun of the boy. Charlie laughs, too. Then, Charlie sees that the boy is confused by a simple joke. Charlie realizes the boy is probably slow, like Charlie was. He remembers how he felt when people laughed at his mistakes. He shouts at the other customers.
May 20 …
“Shut up! Leave him alone! It’s not his fault he can’t understand! He can’t help what he is! But … he’s still a human being!”
The room grew silent. I cursed myself for losing control and creating a scene. I tried not to look at the boy as I paid my check and walked out without touching my food. I felt ashamed for both of us.
The day in the diner is important for Charlie. He realizes what he was really like before the surgery. He believes he can help people. He knows what it is like to be slow, and he knows what it is like to be very intelligent. He decides to talk to Dr. Strauss about working together.
GRADE 8 • UNIT 4 • Accessible Leveled Text • Flowers for Algernon 4
It happened today. Algernon bit me. I visited the lab to see him as I do occasionally, and when I took him out of his cage, he snapped at my hand. I put him back and watched him for a while. He was unusually disturbed and vicious.
May 24
Burt, who is in charge of the experimental animals, tells me that Algernon is changing. He is less cooperative; he refuses to run the maze any more; general motivation has decreased. And he hasn’t been eating. Everyone is upset about what this may mean.
Charlie wants to learn more about what is happening to Algernon. He knows this is a sign of what might happen to him. Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur ask Charlie to stop coming to the center. But Charlie is determined to figure out his fate.
May 25 ...
I am going ahead with my plans to carry their research forward. With all due respect to both of these fine scientists, I am well aware of their limitations. If there is an answer, I’ll have to find it out for myself. Suddenly, time has become very important to me.
Charlie is allowed to set up his own lab and experiments. He works day and night.
May 31
Dr. Strauss thinks I’m working too hard. Dr. Nemur says I’m trying to cram a lifetime of research and thought into a few weeks. I know I should rest, but I’m driven on by something inside that won’t let me stop. I’ve got to find the reason for the sharp regression3 in Algernon. I’ve got to know if and when it will happen to me.
Charlie finishes his research on his own. He sends Dr. Strauss a letter. He includes all the things he learned in his research. He explains that he has checked everything many times. He knows that the results of his research are not good news for him or for the doctors. The results indicate that their work at the center is not a success. Charlie writes that he is glad, at least, to have helped science. His research has added to the knowledge about the human mind.
Charlie writes his thoughts and feelings in his diary. He knows that what is happening to Algernon will also happen to him. Charlie calls it the “Algernon-Gordon Effect.” He understands that he will lose all his new intelligence. His research indicates that he will quickly forget what he has learned. He will go back to being Charlie Gordon, a slow-learning man. He decides he will write in his diary as long as he can. Charlie is already forgetting things. He writes about his deterioration, or the process of becoming worse.
3. regression (rih GREHSH uhn) n. return to a previous, less advanced state.
GRADE 8 • UNIT 4 • Accessible Leveled Text • Flowers for Algernon 5
Deterioration progressing. I have become absent-minded. Algernon died two days ago. Dissection shows my predictions were right. His brain had decreased in weight and there was a general smoothing out of cerebral convolutions as well as a deepening and broadening of brain fissures.
I guess the same thing is or will soon be happening to me. Now that it’s definite, I don’t want it to happen.
I put Algernon’s body in a cheese box and buried him in the back yard. I cried.
Dr. Strauss tries to visit Charlie. Charlie wants to be left alone and will not see Dr. Strauss. He writes that he feels “the darkness closing in.”
Charlie tries to read books he used to enjoy. He no longer understands them. He feels angry and sad that he is losing his intelligence. There are times Charlie does not even remember who he is. He takes walks but forgets his way home.
June 21
Why can’t I remember? … I won’t let it happen. I’ll fight it. I can’t help thinking of the boy in the restaurant, the blank expression, the silly smile, the people laughing at him. No—please—not that again ...
June 22
I’m forgetting things that I learned recently. It seems to be following the classic pattern—the last things learned are the first things forgotten. Or is that the pattern? I’d better look it up again …
I reread my paper on the “Algernon-Gordon Effect” and I get the strange feeling that it was written by someone else. There are parts I don’t even understand.
Charlie is rapidly losing his intelligence. He realizes he can no longer read German or other languages he had learned. He is also losing his coordination. He trips over things. He does not use the typewriter anymore. He has to look up even simple words in the dictionary. It makes writing hard. Charlie is impatient with himself.
June 30
A week since I dared to write again. It’s slipping away like sand through my fingers. …
I keep telling myself I must keep writing these reports so that somebody will know what is happening to me. But it gets harder to form the words and remember spellings. ...
Dr. Strauss comes around almost every day, but I told him I wouldn’t see or speak to anybody. He feels guilty. They all do. But I don’t blame anyone. I knew what might happen. But how it hurts.
GRADE 8 • UNIT 4 • Accessible Leveled Text • Flowers for Algernon 6
NOTESCharlie does not leave his room for a long time. His landlady is worried and brings him food. Charlie tries to read. He has to read the same thing over and over to understand. It’s hard to write, so he decides to use only the easy words. Charlie puts flowers on Algernon’s grave every week.
Miss Kinnian tries to visit Charlie. He does not let her in because he feels ashamed. Miss Kinnian cries when Charlie tells her he doesn’t like her anymore. Charlie cries because he still loves Miss Kinnian. She pays his rent for him. Charlie is embarrassed and realizes he needs to get a job.
Charlie goes back to work as a janitor at the factory. A new coworker tries to make fun of Charlie. His old friends, Frank and Joe, tell Charlie that they will help him if anyone teases him.
July 28
I did a dumb thing today I forgot I wasnt in Miss Kinnians class at the adult center any more like I use to be. I went in and sat down in my old seat in the back of the room and she looked at me funny. … I said hello Miss Kinnian Im ready for my lesin today only I lost my reader that we was using.
Miss Kinnian is sad to see Charlie this way. She runs out of the room. Charlie suddenly remembers about the operation he had. He leaves before she comes back.
Thats why Im going away from New York for good. I dont want to do nothing like that agen. I dont want Miss Kinnian to feel sorry for me. Evry body feels sorry at the factery and I dont want that eather so Im going someplace where nobody knows that Charlie Gordon was once a genus and now he cant even reed a book or rite good.
Charlie wants to go where people do not know that he used to be a genius. He takes a few books with him, even though he cannot read them. It has been less than five months since he began the study with Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur. Charlie finishes his diary with a note to Miss Kinnian and Dr. Strauss.
Its a good feeling to know things and be smart. I wish I had it rite now if I did I woud sit down and reed all the time. Anyway I bet Im the first dumb person in the world who ever found out something importent for sience. I remember I did somthing but I dont remember what. So I gess its like I did it for all the dumb pepul like me.
Charlie tells Miss Kinnian and Dr. Strauss goodbye. He ends his last progress report with one request. Charlie asks them to put flowers on Algernon’s grave.
A. DIRECTIONS: In each of the following items, think about the meaning of the italicized word. Then, answer the question.
1. Is a person fully aware of what his or her subconscious is doing? Explain. _____________________________________________________________________ 2. If a villain in a movie is despised, is he liked by people? Explain. _____________________________________________________________________ 3. After seeming to walk in a circle, Felix had a suspicion that his trail map was out of date. So, he used the GPS on his phone to find the correct trail. Did Felix trust his trail map? Explain. _____________________________________________________________________ 4. If there were a deterioration in the condition of a house, would that be an improvement? Explain. _____________________________________________________________________ 5. Donnie’s thoughts became introspective. Is Donnie thinking about the wider world around him? Explain. _____________________________________________________________________ 6. If a society suffers a regression, is it more advanced than it once was? Explain. _____________________________________________________________________
B. WORD STUDY: The Latin prefix sub- means “under” or “beneath.” For instance, the word subtract means “to take away.” It comes from the Latin sub- “from below” and trahere “to draw.” Find two words that have the Latin prefix sub-, and use each correctly in a sentence.
Identify the choice that best answers the question.
: Comprehension
a.
1. In “Flowers for Algernon,” what happens during Charlie’s first inkblot test? He sees many pictures in the inkblot.
b. He cannot see any pictures in the inkblot. c. He shows he has an extremely violent temper. d. He performs badly, compared to Algernon.
a.
2. In “Flowers for Algernon,” why do the doctors use Charlie in their experiment?
They see that he has bonded with Algernon. b. They believe that he is motivated to try to learn. c. They know that he can get a better job if his skills improve. d. They realize that he is the only person who is willing to participate.
a.
3. In “Flowers for Algernon,” why do Charlie’s fellow workers want him fired? They become jealous of Charlie’s good fortune.
b. They think that Charlie has begun lying and stealing. c. They become frightened by Charlie and distrustful of his new
intelligence. d. They resent Charlie for damaging the factory and making their jobs
harder.
a.
4. In “Flowers for Algernon,” what is one aspect of the text that shows Charlie is returning to his old condition?
He learns German. b. He says he hates Algernon. c. He starts to spell badly again. d. He asks Miss Kinnian to dinner.
