"Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
Rorschach Test Here is your first job: in your "Case File" create a heading called "Rorschach Test."
Rorschach Ink Blot As you view these ink blots, write what comes to your mind when you view each picture. After "taking" a Rorschach tests, share your responses
and show each other the visions that you see in the blots. We will
come back to this later.
Article about Rorschach Testing
NYT Article "What's in an Inkblot? Some Say, Not Much"
Write an entry in your "Case File"
After "taking" a Rorschach test and reading about the validity of the
testing system, evaluate the test. What do you
think of such a test and why do you think it has hung around for so
long? Based on your own very limited experience, what do you think
the problems with the test could be, other than those posited in the
article?
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In your "Case File" record your initial impressions of Charlie
Gordon in your notebooks. (After we read the first few pages of the story, stopping before
Charlie's writing begins to change-just after the operation.)