Pre-Reading and Vocabulary Activities for "Flowers for Algernon

Engage in pre-reading activities like exploring advantages/disadvantages of popularity and intelligence, sacrifices for fitting in, and more. Assess your intelligence with a "Smart Test" and challenge your mind with a reading exercise. Explore the fascinating "Simply Amazing" concept of reading jumbled words effortlessly. Enhance your vocabulary with key words from "Flowers for Algernon" and complete vocabulary worksheets following specific guidelines.

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• Intelligence
• Reading Exercise
• Simply Amazing

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1. Flowers for Algernon Pre-Reading and Vocabulary

2. Pre-Reading Activity #1 TABLE#1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of popularity? T-chart TABLE #2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of intelligence? T-chart TABLE #3. What sacrifices do people make to fit in? List TABLE #4. What is good or bad about being unusual/different? T-chart TABLE #5 What are some different ways a person can be intelligent ? List

3. Pre-Reading Activity #2 Smart Test Read the following sentence once out loud. FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS. Now, count on your fingers the F s in that sentence. Count them only once; do not go back and count them again.

4. Smart Test-Answers Read the following sentence once out loud. FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS. Now, count aloud the F s in that sentence. Count them only once; do not go back and count them again. There are 6 F s in the sentence. Finding 3 of them is average. Spotting 4 is above average. If you got 5, you can brag to most anyone. If you found all 6, you re a genius. Many people miss OF. The human brain tends to see V s and not F s

5. Simply Amazing Let s read this passage together, aloud. Aoccdrnig to a rsheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn t mttaer in what oerdr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit problem. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Smiply amzanig, huh?

6. Flowers for Algernon Vocabulary Write down the following words on loose leaf and follow the table guidelines (next page)for completion of the vocabulary work. This will be due when you walk through the door tomorrow. Sensation Specialization Proportional Motivation Conscious (n) Assimilate Integrate Documentation Absurd Refute Impair Intellect Justified Tendency Observation

7. Vocabulary Format Word Part of Speech Definition Synonym Sentence using the word