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=Monday, May 28 - Memorial Day= = = =Tuesday, May 29= = = =Wednesday, May 30= >> Chief Bromden – >> Nurse Ratched >> Doctor Spivey >> McMurphy = = =Thursday, May 31= = = =Friday, June 1= >
 * no school
 * study questions
 * due Tuesday, June 4, before test
 * return orange Vocab G books!
 * How have characters changed?
 * Character Development in Cuckoo’s Nest
 * beginning – acts deaf and dumb, believes he’s really small
 * then McMurphy’s touch makes his hand swell up, temporarily
 * near the end, can move the Control Panel a little bit
 * at the very end?
 * stays the same, part of the Combine
 * can’t stand changes in other characters
 * with McMurphy’s encouragement, becomes more outgoing
 * willing to stand up to Big Nurse, goes along on fishing trip
 * from the beginning, very honest about his gambling – wants to win everybody’s money
 * after Cheswick’s death, McMurphy fights to show the other guys how.
 * Biblical references to what McMurphy ultimately chooses to do, and why
 * Great Books: Cuckoo's Nest
 * in-class narrative essay writing
 * Literary Criticism – looking at a text through the “lens” of one particular concern.
 * Reader Response criticism – How did I like the book? How does it affect me?
 * Gender Criticism – looking through the gender lens, readers ask:
 * do people in this text follow traditional, expected gender roles?
 * are genders portrayed with equal validity?
 * What about Nurse Ratched? The author tells us she is emasculating the men to control them.
 * Billy Bibbit’s mother doesn’t acknowledge that he’s an adult.
 * Candy Starr – prostitute with a heart of gold.
 * men are controlled by women
 * Privilege and Social Power criticism – Who has the social power in a situation, based on their background in society.
 * Who controls the Combine?
 * Is power shared? Is it transparent?
 * Chief has no power in the story, but sees what no one else can see, how the Combine really works.
 * The orderlies, the black boys. Kesey comments on what society has done to them that makes them perfect for the Big Nurse’s manipulation.
 * Post-Colonial criticism – How has the conquering culture assumed things about other cultures?
 * Chief Bromden’s history – all about the loss of his culture to U.S. gov’t.
 * Kesey chooses to write from the point of view of a Native American. Is that valid?
 * Ecological criticism – focused on the land, and land use, but related to post-colonial criticism.
 * lack of concern for long term issues related to building the dam: salmon, sea lions, unaware of the complexities.
 * Ecological criticism – focused on the land, and land use, but related to post-colonial criticism.
 * lack of concern for long term issues related to building the dam: salmon, sea lions, unaware of the complexities.
 * lack of concern for long term issues related to building the dam: salmon, sea lions, unaware of the complexities.