discussion director o writer’s notebook (emailed night before) o discussion points: o what’s...
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Discussion DirectorO Writer’s Notebook (Emailed Night Before)O Discussion Points:
O What’s going on? O Bromden – History? Perspective? O The Ward – Schedule
O Shock ShopO Day Room (Chronics/Acutes)O “efficiency” – “wires” and “beams” (31)
O McMurphy’s Arrival & History – Inciting IncidentO Cards; LaughO Foreshadowing conflict (41)
O ONE PROBLEM WITH THIS ALL
Literary Luminary
O Passages:O page 10 – Big Nurse (COLOR)/SIZEO page 13 – flashback – “it’s the truth…” O Page 16 – McMurphy – laughO Page 27 – McMurphy’s handO Page 41 – “…the Big Nurse gets real put out if anything
keeps her outfit from running smooth.”
Concept Connector
O Connections:O New Person at School (Admission)O Stuck in a fogO Telling on others (honor code)
O Research:O Umqua tribe – tribe in Southern OregonO The Dalles
Artistic AdventurerSelf-Created:
Poem
Found
Character CoordinatorO Bromden – Chief Broom
O Cagey, Perception, History with Father in FlashbacksO History: (24) – father chief, mother not, (29) – electronics in college/Army;
high school football trip to CA – 38-39O Three Orderlies/Aides – black, dwarf (30 – mom raped), two others
(Williams), hate (31)O Big Nurse – Ratched – been there longest, History (29) –
how she gets staffO PR Guy – “wet hands” (14), laugh (37)
O R. P. McMurphy – laugh, cowboy imagery (16), gambling, work farm, redhead, psychopath, “manipulator” (Ratched) (29)
O Nurses – Miss Flinn (27)O Dr. (29) “little man with a big wide forehead and wide jowly cheeks…”
Character CoordinatorO Acutes:
O Cheswick – (17) staring at cardsO Billy Bibbit – (22) stutterO Martini – (19) “discovering things under the tables and chairs”O Harding – (23) – hands, sexy wifeO 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”
O Chronics – Walkers, Wheelers, VegetablesO Ellis – (19) started as Acute, Shock Shop, nailed with peeO Ruckly – (20) failure, riled up by wifeO Colonel Matterson – wife brought him (21)O Old Pete (25)O Big George – (25) “water freak,” “unsanitary hand”
Your JobO BEFORE BOOK CLUB:
O Read the pagesO TYPE your Pre-Group Role Assignment (Notes)O WN
O DURING BOOK CLUB:O Share your Role Assignment (Notes) & WNO Take Notes on Daily Notes SheetO Highlights of Discussion
O AFTER BOOK CLUB:O Add any additional notesO Post-Group Journal (Reflection) & Participation GradeO Discussion Director: Attendance Evaluation