Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Essential Questions:

What does it mean to be "insane"? Who decides and why might they label someone "insane"?
Under what conditions should authority and order be preferred over freedom and chaos?
Is R.P. McMurphy a hero or a failure?
What does it mean to be truly free?

Slides for students to compare film and text versions of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with scaffolded prior knowledge, graphic organizers, group work, independent work, and academic language sentence templates.

Discussion instructions and preparation for close reading

Slide for modeling using graphic organizers to document character development and connections to significant plot points.

Slides for modeling how to identify author's tone with specific diction.

Sample Lesson Plan with "chunked reading" and use of audiobooks for differentiating instruction (above) and modeling character development with academic language sentence templates (right)

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Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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