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//**Ok...a bit of a traditional activity to start the day.

As 'Flowers for Algernon' progresses, you will notice the use of more difficult words. Please copy the following vocabulary words into your notebooks. For each, write the part of speech, a definition, and use it in a sentence. Remember, if you use a new word on your own just TWICE, it becomes yours. Get busy.

affront, animated, avert, baroque, depraved, euphemism, interim, marooned, paradoxical, platonic, pompous, stimulus, vacuous



Below these definitions, please complete the following:

The introduction to 'Flowers for Algernon' is : (Remember all the parts included in introduction.)

The conflict in this story occurs when : (Include journal entry number and date.)

When this is finished, please show me and receive a quick crossword puzzle to practice these words and check them against your own definitions. See? The fun never ends!

We'll see how long this takes, then move on with some more reading. The best parts of the story have yet to come. Keep your eyes open for the crucial scenes where we meet Joe Carp and Frank Reilly. These are [|flat characters] that help to develop the rising action.**//