Plot
The setting of the story (state)
What is New York?
Flowers for Algernon is a part of this genre
What is Science Fiction
True or False: Charlie Gordon has above average intelligence at the beginning of the story.
What is false?
What does Charlie see during his first inkblot test?
What is nothing?
What does Charlie name the experiment?
What is the Algernon-Gordon Effect?
Miss Kinnian's relationship to Charlie Gordon changes throughout the story. What are the two different roles that she plays in his life?
What is teacher and romantic interest?
Flowers for Algernon is written by this man
Who is Daniel Keyes?
True or False: The doctors choose Charlie for the experiment because he is motivated to try to learn.
What is true?
What does Algernon do to Charlie towards the end of the story?
What is he bites him?
What is the negative effect of the experiment?
What is that Charlie will lose all of his intelligence and die.
When Charlie leaves New York at the end of the story it is because he
What is he didn't want people to feel sorry for him.
Flowers for Algernon is told from this point of view.
What is 1st person.
True or False? At the end of the story, Charlie takes Algernon and together they leave New York.
What is false?
Who were Joe Carp and Frank Rielly?
Who are Charlie's friends/bullies?
What are the first things Charlie starts to lose and what does he hope he never loses?
What is Charlie's memory; his reading and writing?
Whose point of view is the story in?
What is Charlie's point of view?
The story is called Flowers for Algernon because
What is Charlie delivers flowers to Algernon's grave
True or False: Charlie goes to college and becomes a doctor at the end of the story?
What is false?
What happens to Charlie at the end of the story?
He regresses back to being of below average intelligence.
Why does Charlie decide to leave NYC?
What is Charlie doesn't want people to feel sorry for him?
The doctors who were in charge of Charlie's operation and experiment
Who are Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur?
What form does this story take? How is it written?
What is in progress reports written by Charlie?
True or False: Algernon becomes aggressive at the end of the story?
What is true?
The author of "Flowers for Algernon" views science as...
Science may do unexpected harm.
Daily Double: With your group, create a plot diagram about Flowers for Algernon. Make sure you include exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
Ex: NYC, Charlie in school, gets tested RA: gets surgery; works on being smart; falls for Alice CX: Realizes his fate; to accept or not FA: accepts; tells goodbyes, RS: Leaves