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One Flew Over the Cuckoos’ Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoos’ Nest. Ken Kesey Ms. Hudgins English. * First: Close your eyes * Second : Visualize the scene as I read it aloud to you. *Finally: Draw a detailed description of the passage that I am about to read. Visualizing Activity. Evaluation.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoos’ Nest

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  1. One Flew Over the Cuckoos’ Nest Ken Kesey Ms. Hudgins English

  2. *First: Close your eyes *Second: Visualize the scene as I read it aloud to you. *Finally: Draw a detailed description of the passage that I am about to read. Visualizing Activity

  3. Evaluation

  4. Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disorder that affects about 1.1 percect of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year” What is Schizophrenia?

  5. People with schizophrenia sometimes hear voices others don’t hear, believe that others are broadcasting their thoughts to the world, or become convinced that others are plotting to harm them. These experiences can make them fearful and withdrawn and cause difficulties when they try to have relationships with others.” Symptoms

  6. Symptoms usually develop in men in their late teens or early twenties and women in their twenties and thirties, but in rare cases, can appear in childhood. They can include hallucinations, delusions, disordered thinking, movement disorders, flat affect, social withdrawl, and cognitive deficits.” Signs and Symptoms

  7. Currently, this is a time of hope for people with schizophrenia. Although the causes of the diseases have not been determined, current treatments can eliminate many of the symptoms and allow people with schizophrenia to live independent and fulfilling lives in the community” End Note

  8. Please write ½ page on one of the following prompt: • Prompt #1:.What constitutes mental illness? For what types of behaviors, if any should people be institutionalized (put away in a hospital)? OR • Prompt #2: What basic rights, if any, should be denied someone exhibiting mental illness? Journal #2

  9. A thesis statement is • the sentence that states the essay’s purpose • provides justification to read the essay • presents an assertion sufficiently limited to find support in the essay. • It is the central argument around which the essay revolves. Thesis Statements

  10. A good thesis does the following: • 1. Expresses the main idea • 2. Answers or sets up the “So What” Question. • 3. Says something meaningful & answers an interpretive question. • 4. Presents an arguable statement which can be supported with sustained evidence. • 5. Should be a COMPLEX sentence. Thesis Statements

  11. 1. Static: unchanging, still inactive • Twain uses humor in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for many reasons. • SO WHAT? What are the REASONS? WHY ARE THEY IMPORTANT? Various Levels of Thesis Statements

  12. 2. Dynamic: lively, active, growing, developing • Example: Twain uses humor in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to accomplish his goal. Various Levels of Thesis Statements

  13. 3. Integrated: brings together processes or functions that are normally separate; made up of aspects that work well together. • Example: Twain uses humor in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to lampoon Southern society in order to reevaluate society’s beliefs. Various Levels of Thesis Statements

  14. In, “Our Failed Approach to Schizophrenia” Paul Steinberg …… • Argues… • asserts…. • points out…. • Demonstrates…. • contends…. What is Paul Steinberg’s Thesis Statement in “Our Failed Approach to Schizophrenia”?

  15. Label the following statements as static, dynamic or integrated thesis statements. Be prepared to justify your answers. Do Now:Thesis Statements

  16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Vocabulary List #1

  17. Adj. • Crafty, sly cautious Cagey

  18. Adj – • Cranky; disagreeable ornery

  19. Adj. • Extinct; obsolete defunct

  20. . Adj. • Overenthusiastic overzealous

  21. . Adv. • Delicately , heavenly Ethereally

  22. Adj. • Bright; intelligent astute

  23. Adj. • Angry; mad irate

  24. Noun • Ruled by women Matriarchy

  25. Adj. • Cliché; stale; shallow trite

  26. Noun • Horrors; outrages; offenses Atrocities

  27. . Lack of interest, enthusiasm or concern. apathy

  28. Adj. arrogant, bold Brassy

  29. Noun • Customs, manners protocol

  30. Noun • Pout, making a face grimace

  31. Elizabeth Wurtezel’s Prozac Nation an autobiography published in 1994 and written by Elizabeth Wurtzel, describes the author's experiences with major depression, her own character failings and how she managed to live through particularly difficult periods while completing college and working as a writer.

  32. Zelda Fitzgerlad

  33. Edie Sedgwick

  34. Kurt Cobain

  35. Sylvia Plath

  36. Jim Morrison

  37. Journal #4 1. What is Wurtzel’s thesis statement? First, write about Wurtzel’s thesis statement in the article. What is she trying to say about mental illness? What is her philosophical standpoint on mental illness? 2. Then, write about your opinion? Do you agree with Elizabeth Wurtzel? Is “living in madness from moment to moment” not “worth any of the great art that comes as its by-product? REMEMBER, a good thesis statement must be an integrated, complex sentence. DISAGREE: Although in Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Prozac Nation Wurtzel contends that…..in actuality…… AGREE: In Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Prozac Nation Wurtzeleffectively points out…

  38. Chief Bromden

  39. Big Nurse / Nurse Ratched

  40. The Black boys

  41. R.P. McMurphy

  42. Ellis and Ruckley

  43. The Acutes

  44. Public Relations

  45. Write one 1 element of literary style in your poem and explain why you chose each poem. Journal #4

  46. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Vocabulary List #2

  47. Noun • Psychic drive or energy especially associated with sexual desire • ‘Bibbit, you tell this young upstart McMurphy that I’ll meet hi in the main hall at high noon and we’ll settle this affair once and for all, libidos a blazin’ libido

  48. Verb • To try to avoid work, to loaf • He says he was just a wanderer and logging bum before the army took him and taught him what his natural bent was, just like they taught some men to goldbrick and some men to goof off, he says… goldbrick

  49. Verb • To begin, to start • I remember the fingers were thick and strong closing over mire, and my hand commenced to feel peculiar and went to swelling up out there on my stick of an arm commenced

  50. Noun • Anything selected from others; especially something inferior picked out and set aside. • Across the room from the Acutes are the culls of the Combine’s product, the Chronics. culls

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