Response and exploration

1. Flowers for Algernon Response and exploration

2. Summary Charlie Gordon is a mentally slow adult. Charlie isn’t the smartest, but he was living a happy life. He attends the Beekmen Center for Slow adults where his teacher, Alice Kinnian recommends him to a board of scientists to undergo an operation that will turn him into a genius. After the surgery, Charlie soaks up knowledge like a sponge. He begins to know things that college professors don’t even understand. Algernon is a test mouse that had the same surgery as Charlie, so when Algernon begins to behave erratically and dies, the scientists and Charlie get very worried. As Charlie’s mental health degrades, he enters a midlife crisis. Will Charlie survive?

3. Types of Mental/Learning Illnesses • Down Syndrome: 1. When babies are born with an extra chromosome. 2. It effects everybody differently, you can’t tell that some people even have it. • Autism: • One of the most common  developmental disability. • Many autistic people have above average intelligence.

4. Types of Mental/Learning Illnesses • ADD/ADHD: • Makes it hard to concentrate or sit still. • Makes you do things without thinking it through. • Dyslexia: • Makes it hard to read and write. • Mixes up letter that look a like, like b and d.