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Discussion Director

Discussion Director. Writer ’ s Notebook ( Emailed Night Before) Discussion Points: What ’ s going on? Bromden – History? Perspective? The Ward – Schedule Shock Shop Day Room (Chronics/Acutes) “ efficiency ” – “ wires ” and “ beams ” (31)

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Discussion Director

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  1. Discussion Director • Writer’s Notebook (Emailed Night Before) • Discussion Points: • What’s going on? • Bromden – History? Perspective? • The Ward – Schedule • Shock Shop • Day Room (Chronics/Acutes) • “efficiency” – “wires” and “beams” (31) • McMurphy’s Arrival & History – Inciting Incident • Cards; Laugh • Foreshadowing conflict (41) • ONE PROBLEM WITH THIS ALL

  2. Literary Luminary • Passages: • page 10 – Big Nurse (COLOR)/SIZE • page 13 – flashback – “it’s the truth…” • Page 16 – McMurphy – laugh • Page 27 – McMurphy’s hand • Page 41 – “…the Big Nurse gets real put out if anything keeps her outfit from running smooth.”

  3. Concept Connector • Connections: • New Person at School (Admission) • Stuck in a fog • Telling on others (honor code) • Research: • Umqua tribe – tribe in Southern Oregon • The Dalles

  4. Artistic Adventurer Self-Created: Poem Found

  5. Character Coordinator • Bromden – Chief Broom • Cagey, Perception, History with Father in Flashbacks • History: (24) – father chief, mother not, (29) – electronics in college/Army; high school football trip to CA – 38-39 • Three Orderlies/Aides – black, dwarf (30 – mom raped), two others (Williams), hate (31) • Big Nurse – Ratched – been there longest, History (29) – how she gets staff • PR Guy – “wet hands” (14), laugh (37) • R. P. McMurphy – laugh, cowboy imagery (16), gambling, work farm, redhead, psychopath, “manipulator” (Ratched) (29) • Nurses – Miss Flinn (27) • Dr. (29) “little man with a big wide forehead and wide jowly cheeks…”

  6. Character Coordinator • Acutes: • Cheswick – (17) staring at cards • Billy Bibbit – (22) stutter • Martini – (19) “discovering things under the tables and chairs” • Harding – (23) – hands, sexy wife • Maxwell Taber - (29) manipulator, (34) – asking about pills, rape?, EST, (40) adjusted to society, changing his “wife, his two little girls…, the neighbor he goes bowling with” • Chronics – Walkers, Wheelers, Vegetables • Ellis – (19) started as Acute, Shock Shop, nailed with pee • Ruckly – (20) failure, riled up by wife • Colonel Matterson – wife brought him (21) • Old Pete (25) • Big George – (25) “water freak,”“unsanitary hand”

  7. Your Job • BEFORE BOOK CLUB: • Read the pages • TYPE your Pre-Group Role Assignment (Notes) • WN • DURING BOOK CLUB: • Share your Role Assignment (Notes) & WN • Take Notes on Daily Notes Sheet • Highlights of Discussion • AFTER BOOK CLUB: • Add any additional notes • Post-Group Journal (Reflection) & Participation Grade • Discussion Director: Attendance Evaluation

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