"Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Rorschach Test Here is your first job: in your "Case File"  create a heading called "Rorschach Test." Rorschach Ink Blot As you view these ink blots, write what comes to your mind when you view each picture. After "taking" a Rorschach tests, share your responses and show each other the visions that you see in the blots.  We will come back to this later.
Article about Rorschach Testing
NYT Article "What's in an Inkblot?  Some Say, Not Much"

Write an entry in your "Case File"
After "taking" a Rorschach test and reading about the validity of the testing system, evaluate the test. What do you think of such a test and why do you think it has hung around for so long?  Based on your own very limited experience, what do you think the problems with the test could be, other than those posited in the article?

Click here for PDF copy of abridged "Flowers for Algernon" (version we are reading in class)
Click here for the original novella

In your "Case File" record your initial impressions of Charlie Gordon in your notebooks. (After we read the first few pages of the story, stopping before Charlie's writing begins to change-just after the operation.)

Multiple Intelligences-
Click here to take  the Multiple Intelligence Assessment 
This quiz asks 24 questions and will take less than five minutes to complete. Try not to think too hard -- just go with your first thought when describing your daily activities and interests. By the end, you may have some new insights into the way you think.

Link to Powerpoint on Multiple Intelligences

For more information about the theory of Multiple Intelligences, check out this article: Multiple Intelligences: What Does the Research Say? You may also want to watch an interview with Howard Gardner: Big Thinkers: Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligences. (taken from Edutopia)