✦RBLevel 9 · Elite PrepUS Grades 11–12Lexile 910LAR (ATOS) 5.8 · First published 1966
📖 Read the book first: you need a copy of Flowers for Algernon to use this workbook. Recommended edition: Harvest paperback (Harcourt / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), ISBN 9780156030304. Another edition works if you can follow the chapters. All recommended editions →
Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
🧠 Mind, Memory and the Brain
IQ testing and its history, the Rorschach test, how memory lives in the brain, Freud and dreams, and emotional intelligence.
SUPPORTING
🔬 Science and Its Ethics
Lab mice and the maze, informed consent and the Belmont Report, the Hawthorne effect, Henrietta Lacks, and how scientists test an idea.
SUPPORTING
📖 How a Story Is Built
A novel told in progress reports, dramatic irony, foreshadowing, the foil, tragedy, and a circular ending.
