Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Today, I introduced the Novel Flowers for Algernon. We discussed the concept of science fiction as well as whether it would be a benefit or a deficit to be able to be suddenly much more intelligent. I then read a couple of the progress reports Charlie wrote in order to introduce the way it is written and some of the expository information. I then assigned the students to read up to progress report 9 (page 34). Finally, I gave each student a passage from the early progress entries and had them rewrite it, fixing all the spelling/grammatical errors they could locate.