Intelligence Report

LDC Prompt: What defines intelligence? After reading: Flowers for Algernon,
Are Americans Smarter Than Ever?, What is Emotional Intelligence?, and
Howard Gardners Multiple Intelligences, write a report that defines emotional
and intelligence quotients and explains the emotional and intellectual
development of Charlie Gordon throughout the story. Support your discussion
with evidence from the texts.
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Define IQ:
Find a quote from the informational text articles that defines IQ: broadly used
measurement for mental abilities
Article Title: Are americans getting smarter than ever
Define EQ:
Find a quote from What is Emotional Intelligence that defines EQ: the abilty
to perceive control and evaluate emotions
Article Title: emotional intelligence
Describe Charlies IQ in the beginning:
Find a quote from Flowers for Algernon that shows his intelligence
quotient: ill get it in a few minuites becuase im not so fast sometimes
Pg #:673

Describe Charlies EQ in the beginning:

Find a quote from Flowers for Algernon that shows his emotional quotient:
i got scared
Pg #: 675
Describe Charlies IQ in the middle:
Find a quote from Flowers for Algernon that shows his intelligence quotient:
I beat Algernon
Pg #:682
Describe Charlies EQ in the middle:
Find a quote from Flowers for Algernon that shows his emotional quotient:
i think i'll be friends with algernon
Pg #:683
Charlies IQ and EQ in the end:
Summarize how Charlies emotional and intelligence quotient changed in the
end of the story:
through the story charlie iq starts to rise and this is seen through the increase
in comprehension and the decrease in spelling errors, he starts to understand
the people around him and why they think and act. But towards the end his
mental state starts to decrease to even worse than before the operation, to the
point where he forgets weeks at a time and cant even read what he wrote just
a few weeks before.
Cite Your Articles!
Be sure to introduce the title of the article or story when you include the
quote. All titles for this report should be in Quotation Marks, not italicized!
Page numbers can be cited at the end of the sentence in parenthesis like this
(679). You do not need a works cited page for this report. Instead, please
include all citations within the body of your text. You can include the article
title in the text like this: In the article, What is Emotional Intelligence, the

author describes EQ as

How should I organize my Intelligence Report?

Organization: Your report can be all one paragraph, or you can split it up into
different paragraphs as you see fit. When you are ready to turn in your report,
please title the document Intelligence Report and include your name in the title.
You should organize your writing in the following format:

Introduction: Begin with a hook, of course. Then define IQ and EQ

using text evidence from the articles.

Body: Trace Charlies IQ and EQ from the beginning of the story to

the middle of the story (after the surgery) using quotes from the text to
support his varying levels of intelligence and emotional quotient.

Conclusion: Summarize Charlies changes in IQ and EQ

throughout and explain his intelligence and emotional quotients at the end.
Conclude with a statement about intelligence overall (an end hook).

This will be written IN CLASS on November 15th!

The IQ (intelligence quotient) was created in 1912 by William Stern

to measure one's level of human intelligence. His method is one of the
most widely used when describing intelligence. But later on in 1983
Howard Gardner founded another theory on intelligence, his theory

called Howard Gardner's 9 multiple intelligences stated that there

were 9 main intelligences that either produced products or offers, solve
problems, and gather knowledge, they are (without going into too
much detail), language, math/logical, musical, bodily, spatial, natural,
personal, social, and existential. Later on in 1990 another theory like
William Sterns IQ was created, it was called EQ(emotional quotient) it
was defined by the ability to perceive, control, and evaluate emotions.
In the short story Flowers for Algernon, Charlie of man with a
learning disability and low IQ around 60 has difficulty learning. Lower
than average, this is shown when Charlie says, Ill get in a few minits
becaus Im not so fast somtimes(pg 673). This quote shows that Charlie
is not only slow when it comes to observing and processing he is also
not a good speller. This proves that his IQ is below average for
someone his age. Along with his IQ his EQ is also slower than average.
Charlie has great self-esteem, but he could not process that people
were making fun of him which makes his EQ low. Towards the middle
of the story the reader can start to observe that Charlies IQ and EQ

increases. Evidence for this point is when Charlie says I beat Algernon
(Pg 682) his ability to beat Algernon in a race later on when he couldnt
before, thus proving that his IQ and mental capacity increased. His
interaction with Algernon also led reason to believe that his EQ also
increased i think i'll be friends with algernon (Pg 683), this quote is
evidence that Charlies EQ increased because he was able to empathize
or feel bad for Algernon.
Throughout the story Charlies IQ starts to rise and this is seen
through the increase in comprehension and the decrease in spelling
errors, he starts to understand the people around him and why they
think and act. But towards the end his mental state starts to decrease
to even worse than before the operation, to the point where he forgets
weeks at a time and cant even read what he wrote just a few weeks
before.