Background Information about Flowers for Algernon

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Directions:

  1. Please complete the answers to the following questions. Answer the questions with a complete sentence; use a subject, verb and object.
  2. After you finish typing your answers, please save your document. Go to the Office Button and click SAVE AS. For your file name use the following file name and format:
    ffa_backgroundinformation_your first name
    Example: ffa_backgroundinformation_maria
  3. After you have finished and saved your file, log on to Angel. Find the folder in Class/Week1 with the name: FFA Background Submit Answers
  4. Copy and Paste the name of the exercise into the Subject/Title space.
  5. Go to the bottom and click the button Attachment.
  6. Click the Browse button to find the file that you have just saved on your flash drive
  7. Click on the name of your file and then click the Open button.
  8. Click the Upload button.
  9. Then click finished.
  10. You must see the name of your file in blue under the word Attachments. This will show you that you have successfully attached the file.
  11. Then click the Submit button. This will send your exercise to Dan and he will correct the exercise.
  12. Please check your email to the correction of your exercise. If you don’t see the corrections to your exercises after two or three days, be sure to let Dan know!

QUESTIONS
*Remember to use a line break when you need to add more space or insert information. Hold the Shift key + Enter Key (If you press only the Enter key, you will keep getting a new number and you don’t want to do that.

Go to the following web page: https://www.seattlecentral.edu/faculty/dloos/ESL-IT/ESL-IT_documents/FlowersforAlgernon/ffa_background_searchexercise.html

  1. When and where was Daniel Keyes born?
  2. Where does Daniel Keyes live now and how old is he?
  3. What degrees did he earn from college? (What subject areas?)
  4. What was his job when (just before) he retired?
  5. When was Flowers for Algernon first published?
  6. How many fiction books has he published?
  7. How many non-fiction books has he published?
  8. Click on the link Locus Magazine, June 1997 interview.
    How many countries has Flowers for Algernon been published in?
  9. Is there a film of Flowers for Algernon?
  10. What did publishers want Daniel Keyes to change about his book when he first presented the book to them for publication?
  11. What happened to Daniel Keyes that made him feel like a rock star?

What is intelligence? Return to the Flowers for Algernon background web link.

  1. What do the letters “I” and “Q” mean in IQ?
  2. Click on the link for Take an IQ test. Click on the sample questions. What are the different kinds of intelligence that the test measures?
  3. Go back to the Flowers for Algernon background web link. Click on the Multiple Intelligences link. What is intelligence according to the information you find?

What are some other mental tests?

  1. Who is Herman Rorschach?
  1. What is the purpose of an inkblot test?
  1. What do each of the images look like or represent to you? (Don’t ask other students until you have finished!)
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