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Flowers For Algernon Answers

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Unit 1
Title: Flowers for Algernon
Suggested Time: 5-7 days (45 minutes per day)
Common Core ELA Standards: RL.8.1, RL.8.2, RL.8.3; W8.1, W8.4, W8.9; SL8.1; L.8.1, L.8.2
[Additional Tasks: RI8.8, RI8.9]

Teacher Instructions
Preparing for Teaching 1. Read the Big Ideas and Key Understandings and the Synopsis. Please do not read this to the students. This is a description for teachers about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after completing this task.
Big Ideas and Key Understandings: * Students should work through the idea that different levels of intelligence, emotional and intellectual, lead to different types of interactions with people and society. * Students should evaluate …show more content…

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