Re: Flowers for Algernon / My Left Foot

[R Wuetherick <rgw@GPU.SRV.UALBERTA.CA>]

> A colleague seeks to incorporate information technology (the use of the
> Internet and CD-ROMs) in a semester-long unit at the High School level in
> which the novel Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, and the
> autobiography My Left Foot, by Christy Brown, will be compared. Our school
> uses Mac computers.
>
> I should be most grateful to receive information on Sites, listservs,
> etc., that deal with the issues covered in those two titles, issues which
> include:
>
> * mental retardation
> * physical and mental disabilities
> * society's attitudes towards the marginalized and the physically and
>   mentally disabled
> * the morality of "tampering" with nature to arrive at what the medical
> profession deems an "improved" outcome
>
> Many thanks for your help!
>
> Cheers!
>
> Robert G. Wuetherick
> Teacher-Librarian, Overseas Family School, Singapore
> e-mail to 25 June 1996: rgw@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
> permanent e-mail: robert_wuetherick@ofs.ac.sg


Robert G. Wuetherick
Teacher-Librarian, Overseas Family School, Singapore
e-mail to 25 June 1996: rgw@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
permanent e-mail: robert_wuetherick@ofs.ac.sg
Singapore school telephone: (65) 738-0211 (voice)
Singapore school FAX:       (65) 733-8825
Singapore home voice/FAX:   (65) 735-5830 (after 12 August 1996)