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April 10 Miss Kinnian teaches me to spell better. She says look at a word and close your eyes and say it over and over until you remember. I have lots of truble with through that you say threw and enough and tough that you dont say enew and tew. You got to say enuff and tuff. Thats how I use to write it before I started to get smart. Tm confused but Miss Kinnian says theres no reason in spelling.
Apr .14 FinIshed Robinson Crusoe. I want to find out more about what happens to him but Miss Kinni?n says thats all there is. Why

Apr 15 Miss Kinnian says Tm lerning fast. She read some of the Progress Reports and she looked at me kind of funny. She says Tm a fine person and Ill show them all. I asked her why. She said never mind but I shoudnt feel bad if I find out that everybody isnt nice like I think. She said for a person who god gave so little to you done more then a lot of people with brains they never even used. I said all my fends are smart people but there good. They like me and they never did anything that wasnt nice. Then she got something in her eye and she had to run out to the ladys room.

Apr 16 Today, I lemed, the comma, this is a comma (,) a period, with a tail, Miss Kinnian, says its importent, because, it makes writing, better, she said, sombeody, could lose, a lot of money, if a comma, isnt, in the, right place, I dont have, any money, and I dont see, how a comma, keeps you, from losing it,
But she says, everybody, uses commas, so Ill use, them too,

Apr 17 I used the comma wrong. Its punctuation. Miss Kinnian told me to look up long words in the dictionary to lem to spell them. I said whats the difference if you can read it anyway. She said its part of your education so now on Ill look up all the words Tm not sure how to spell. It takes a long time to write that way but I think Im remembering. I only have to look up once and after that I get it right. Anyway thats how come I got the word punctuation right. (Its that way in the dictionary). Miss Kinnian says a period is punctuation too, and there are lots of other marks to lem. I told her I thot all the periods had to have tails but she said no.
You got to mix them up, she showed? meФ how. to mix! them( up,. and now; I can! mix up all kindsФ of punctuation, in! my writing? There, are lots! of rules? to lern; but Im gettinТg them in my head.
One thing I? like about, Dear Miss Kinnian: (thats the way it goes in a business letter if I ever go into business) is she, always gives meТ a reasonФ whenЧI ask. SheТs a genТius! I wish! I couТd be smartФ like, her;
(Punctuation, is; fun!)

April 18 What a dope I am! I didnТt even understand what she was talking about. I read the grammar book last night and it explanes the
whole thing. Then I saw it was the same way as Miss Kinnian was trying to tell me, but I didnТt get it. I got up in the middle of the night, and the whole thing straightened out in my mind.
Miss Kinnian said that the TV working in my sleep helped out. She said I reached a plateau. Thats like the flat top of a bill.
After I figgered out how punctuation worked, I read over all my old Progress Reports from the beginning. Boy, did I have crazy spelling and punctuation! I told Miss Kinnian I ought to go over the pages and fix all the mistakes but she said, УNo, Charlie, Dr. Nemur wants them just as they are. ThatТs why he let you keep them after they were photostated, to see your own progress. YouТre coming along fast, Charlie.Ф
That made me feel good. After the lesson I went down and played with Algemon. We donТt race any more.

April 20 I feel sick inside. Not sick like for a doctor, but inside my chest it feels empty like getting punched and a heartburn at the same time.
I wasnТt going to write about it, but I guess I got to, because itТs important. Today was the first time I ever stayed home from work.
Last night Joe Carp and Frank Reilly invited me to a party. There were lots of girls and some men from the factory. I remembered how sick I got last time I drank too much, so I told Joe I didnТt want anything to drink. He gave me a plain Coke instead. It tasted funny, but I thought it was just a bad taste in my mouth.
We had a lot of fun for a while. Joe said I should dance with Ellen and she would teach me the steps. I fell a few times and I couldnТt understand why because no one else was dancing besides Ellen and me. And all the time I was tripping because somebodyТs foot was always sticking out.
Then when I got up I saw the look on JoeТs face and it gave me a funny feeling in my stomack. УHeТs a scream,Ф one of the girls said. Everybody was laughing.
Frank said, УI ainТt laughed so much since we sent him off for the newspaper that night at MuggsyТs and ditched him.Ф
УLook at him. His face is red.Ф
УHeТs blushing. Charlie is blushing.Ф
УHey, Ellen, whatТd you do to Charlie? I never saw him act like that before.Ф
I didnТt know what to do or where to turn. Everyone was looking at
me and laughing and I felt naked. I wanted to hide myself. I ran out into the street and I threw up. Then I walked home. ItТs a funny thing I never knew that Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me.
Now I know what it means when they say Уto pull a Charlie (brdon.Ф
IТm ashamed.


PROGRESS REPORT 11

April 21 Still didnТt go into the factory. I told Mrs. Flynn my landlady to call and tell Mr. Donnegan I was sick. Mrs. Flynn looks at me very funny lately like sheТs scared of me.
I think itТs a good thing about finding out how everybody laughs at me. I thought about it a lot. ItТs because IТm so dumb and I donТt even know when IТm doing something dumb. People think itТs funny when a dumb person canТt do things the same way they can.
Anyway, now I know IТm getting smarter every day. I know punctuation and I can spell good. I like to look up all the hard words in the dictionary and I remember them. IТm reading a lot now, and Miss Kinthan says I read very fast. Sometimes I even understand what IТm reading about, and it stays in my mind. There are times when I can close my eyes and think of a page and it all comes back like a picture.
Besides history, geography, and arithmetic, Miss Kinnian said I should start to learn a few foreign languages. Dr. Strauss gave me some more tapes to play while I sleep. I still donТt understand how that conscious and unconscious mind works, but Dr. Strauss says not to worry yet. He asked me to promise that when I start learning college subjects next week I wouldnТt read any books on psychologyЧthat is, until he gives me permission.
I feel a lot better today, but I guess IТm still a little angry that all the time people were laughing and making fun of me because I wasnТt so smart. When I become intelligent like Dr. Strauss says, with three times my 1.0. of 68, then maybe IТll be like everyone else and people will like me and be friendly.
IТm not sure what an I.Q. is. Dr. Nemur said it was something that measured how intelligent you wereЧlike a scale in the drugstore weighs pounds. But Dr. Strauss had a big argument with him and said an I.Q. didnТt weigh inteffigence at all. He said an I.Q. showed how
much intelligence you could get, like the numbers on the outside of a measuring cup. You still had to fill the cup up with stuff.
Then when I asked Burt, who gives me my intelligence tests and works with Algernon, he said that both of them were wrong (only I had to promise not to tell them he said so). Burt says that the I.Q. measures a lot of different things including some of the things you learned already, and it really isnТt any good at all.
So I still donТt know what 1.0. is except that mine is going to be over 200 soon. I didnТt want to say anything, but I donТt see how if they donТt know what it is, or where it isЧI donТt see how they know how much of it youТve got.
Dr. Nemur says I have to take a Rorshach Test tomorrow. I wonder what that is.

April 22 I found out what a Rorshach is. ItТs the test I took before the operationЧthe one with the inkblots on the pieces of cardboard. The man who gave me the test was the same one.
I was scared to death of those inkblots. I knew he was going to ask me to find the pictures and I knew I wouldnТt be able to. I was thinking to myself, if only there was some way of knowing what kind of pictures were hidden there. Maybe there werenТt any pictures at all. Maybe it was just a trick to see if I was dumb enough to look for something that wasnТt there. Just thinking about that made me sore at him.
УAll right, Charlie,Ф he said, УyouТve seen these cards befor; remember?Ф