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Revisiting Verbs: Tenses, Mood, and Power Themes in Cuckoo's Nest

In this session, we will review verb tenses, mood, and delve into the powerful themes of madness, freedom, manipulation, and laws vs. order in the novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Additionally, we will discuss the PSA assignment where you will create an advertisement based on the essential questions of the book.

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Revisiting Verbs: Tenses, Mood, and Power Themes in Cuckoo's Nest

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  1. November 10 • Today’s Agenda • Verbs Revisited • ACT Practice Test • Cuckoo’s Nest Discussion—Hammering out some themes • PSA Assignment HW: Cuckoo’s Nest pp. 225-249; PSA Assignment; So What Revisions

  2. Verbs…Some new information • Mood • Indicative Mood—expresses a simple fact • It is warm. • Will you be there? • The imperative mood—expresses a command or request. • Stand up. • Please stay. • The subjunctive mood expresses doubt, exhortation, wish, permission, supposition, expectation, possibility, condition contrary to fact, or intention. Use were with If statements or wishes. • If I were you, I would stay. • Would that it were so...

  3. Verbs part –All those irregular verbs that sound like they’re incorrect.

  4. Verb Tense Examples • I drank milk before bed last night. • I have drunk warm milk to help me sleep before. • The suit had shrunk after I washed it.

  5. Power • Which character is the most powerful in the novel? Which is the most powerless? • Are the characters in the novel inherently powerful (or powerless) or is power the result of a person’s position in life?

  6. Madness • In what ways does the novel challenge you to reconsider who is and who isn’t suffering from a mental illness? • How does society view mental illness in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest? How does the medical establishment view it? Are there conflicting view points presented in the book, and if so, what are they?

  7. Freedom and Confinement • Is confinement literal or a state of mind in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest? • What does freedom mean for the patients? What does it mean for Nurse Ratched? • What are the consequences of confinement? What are the benefits?

  8. Manipulation • Is manipulation in the novel always a bad thing? • In what ways does manipulation contribute to each character’s sense of power or powerlessness?

  9. Laws and Order • When the men begin to stand up to Nurse Ratched, are their complaints legitimate? Are her responses? • Are there any examples in the novel of rules that actually are for the patients’ own good?

  10. PSA • Create some sort of advertisement that delivers a message to people based on our essential questions for Cuckoo’s Nest. • You may work individually or with a partner. • If you work with a partner, you must do either a video or audio recording. • Make sure to complete thoughtful, thorough reflections. Make specific connections between your finished product and the book.

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