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Charlie Gordon’s landlady

Who is Mrs. Flynn?

Takes care of Algernon

Who is Burt?

Has the operation before Charlie.

Who is Algernon?

Scientists that study Charlie.

Who are Drs. Nemur and

Strauss?

Charlie’s co-workers

Who are Frank Reilly and Joe

Carp?

We meet Charlie and learn the

conflict.

What is the exposition?

Charlie decides to leave New York.

What is the resolution?

Algernon dies and Charlie begins to

regress.

What is the climax?

Charlie is selected for the operation.

What is the rising action?

Charlie defends the bus boy.

What is the rising action?

Charlie sees spilt ink on the paper.

What does Charlie see on the

Rorscharch test before the operation?

Charlie is motivated to learn and cooperative.

Why is Charlie chosen for the experiment?

You have made a foolish mistake.

What does it mean to “pull a Charlie

Gordon?”

The flowers on Algernon’s grave

symbolize Charlie’s lose of intelligence.

Why does Charlie put flowers on

Algernon’s grave?

The story centers on a scientific

experiment that does not yet exist.

What makes this story science

fiction?

What kind of sentence is this?

Charlie wants to learn, so he is chosen for the

experiment.

What is a compound sentence?

What is wrong about this sentence?

Charlie want to learn how

to read and write.

What is subject verb agreement?

for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

What are the

FAN BOYS?

What is the underlined part of the sentence?

Mr. Donnegan says, Charlie, mopping the floors better than anyone, has a job for life.

What is a participial phrase?

What is the underlined part of the sentence?

His body shaking with grief, Charlie refuses to see Miss. Kinnian.

What is an absolute phrase?

A sentence with two subjects and two verbs.

Example: Charlie and Algernon have an operation and get smart.

What is a compound subject and a compound

verb?

Kind of sentence?

Miss Kinnian recommends Charlie; Dr. Nemur agrees.

What is a compound sentence?

Kind of sentence?

Because Charlie begins to get smart, he understands that Frank and Joe are not his friends.

What is a complex sentence?

After, because, though, whereas, although, before, till, while, as, if, unless, as if, in order that, until, as long as, since, when as though, so that, where

What are the subordinating conjunctions?

Kind of sentence?

Since Charlie is beginning to regress, he no longer wants to see Miss Kinnian.

What is a complex sentence?

Charlie is feeble minded, so he has trouble writing.

What is it to be physically or

mentally weak?

Charlie begins to regress, and he eventually can’t read any more.

What is it to go back to an earlier

stage?

Charlie’s co-workers sign a petition to have

him fired.

What is it to make a request for

something you want?

Algernon’s deterioration led

to his death.

What is the process of

deterioration or decline?

Charlie was illiterate before the

operation.

What is the lack of ability to read and

write?

Make your wager

The universal truth of “Flowers for Algernon” by

Daniel Keyes is disabilities.

What is the theme of “Flowers for

Algernon?”