Flowers for Algernon

Content: To analyze and interpret literature, art, and media, students will be able to: evaluate how literary or visual elements impact a work’s overall message, respond to interpretations of texts through a variety of contexts by justifying ideas and providing new information, analyze how an individual’s motivation and behavior are revealed, and relate interpretations of texts to the real world. Process: To develop thinking, reasoning, and communication skills, students will be able to: analyze meaning, purpose, and literary/visual elements; make inferences from provided evidence; reason through an issue (points of view, assumptions, implications); and communicate to create, express, and interpret ideas. Concept: To understand the concept of truth in the language arts, students will be able to: make and defend generalizations about truth versus perception, explain the positives and negatives of knowing the truth, analyze the consequences of believing perception rather than truth, and explain the relationship between truth and other concepts.