AP LITERATURE AND
COMPOSITION
9/25
AGENDA
• Re-take quiz over poetry terms. Good Luck!
• Chapters 4-5 in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
Nest
• Groups assigned yesterday will discuss
questions together writing down their
thoughts in order to participate in wholeclass discussion.
• Reviewing Vocabulary for Unit 3
• Homework: Read pgs. 76-90 for homework
in Cuckoo’s Nest
VOCABULARY RETAKE
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You may write on the test.
All terms and definitions match up.
Use pen or pencil.
Use all capital letters please.
Move desks away from each other.
• Students who are not taking the vocabulary retake
should be studying their five words from Unit 3 in the
vocabulary book, as well as reading/reviewing Ch.
5 in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
UNIT 3 VOCABULARY
MBCURL.ME/S0ZW
I WILL CHECK OFF IF YOU HAVE
FINISHED
Abominate
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2. Acculturation
3. Adventitious
4. Ascribe
5. Circuitous
In each column of your graphic organizer list the
following:
1. What do you think it means? (Before looking it up)
2. Look up the actual definition and write down a few
synonyms.
3. List each word’s part of speech
4. Create your own sentence using the word.
GROUPS
• Expectations:
1. Discussion of the novel and questions only please.
2. Write down your thoughts in your notebook keeping
track of which chapter you are discussing.
3. Note page numbers and refer to the text often citing
specific evidence relevant to the question.
CHAPTER 4
1. What is the dictionary definition of the noun
“Combine”? What is the Chief’s definition?
2. Nurse Ratched maintains control of her ward by
hand-picking the doctor and the orderlies. Briefly
describe the doctor, three orderlies, and why she
thinks they qualify for their jobs.
3. Find a passage in this Chapter that illustrates the
recurring motif in this novel that Bromden feels the
hospital is like a machine.
4. Find an example of irony in this Chapter.
5. What happens to Mr. Taber under Nurse Ratched’s
care? Why do you think the author includes this
information about Mr. Taber at this point in the story?
CHAPTER 5
1. Review the definition of a psychopath from the first part
of Section I. What evidence is there in McMurphy’s
record that supports the diagnosis that he is a
psycopath?
2. What is the theory of the Therapeutic Community? Cite
incidents from the story to support or refute the
following statement: Nurse Ratched’s ward follows the
principles of a Therapeutic Community.
3. What is the double meaning of Pete Bancini’s
comment, “I’m tired”?
4. Harding has been humiliated by the others concerning
his wife and her affairs. How does McMurphy describe
what happened at the group meeting?
CHAPTER 5
5. Define “matriarchy.” Some critics of this book
believe Kesey is accusing women of trying to run
the world and emasculate the males of the world.
Cite incidents from the story which support this
idea.
6. State a theme for this novel based on the following
passage:
“I haven’t heard a real laugh since I came through that door,
do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose
your footing. A man go around lettin’ a woman whup him
down til he can’t laugh any more, and he loses one of the
biggest edges he’s got on his side.”
HOMEWORK
•Read up to pg. 90 in One Flew
Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
•No essay this weekend, but a
possible reading quiz on
Monday.
•Next week we will review
Question #2 Essays and 15
other vocabulary words for
Unit 3
INTRODUCTION TO NOVEL
• Man’s right to be an individual versus society’s need to
make him conform.
• This theme is reflective of the social climate of the
1960’s.
• Other ideas to note throughout the novel:
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what is sanity?
how authority cripples people?
is the natural man better off free?
can the simple force of one’s personality overcome the
repression of society?
• While the story is rooted in the ideals and cultures of the
1960’s, many of the concerns are as relevant today as
they were then.
REVIEWING TERMS FOR DISCUSSION
• Motif - a situation, incident, idea, or image that is
repeated significantly in a literary work.
• Examples: In Hamlet, revenge is a frequently
repeated idea. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden
continually comments on the phoniness of people
he meets.
• Irony -a perception of inconsistency, sometimes
humorous, in which the significance and
understanding of a statement or event is changed
by its context.
• Example: The firehouse burned down.
CHAPTER 2
1. How does the Chief know the new
Admission is “no ordinary Admission”?
2. What evidence is there in this section of
patient abuse?
3. Briefly describe R. P. McMurphy. What does
the description of McMurphy’s hands
suggest to the reader about his character?
Why is the Chief impressed with
McMurphy’s laugh?
4. Define “psychopath.” Why is McMurphy in
the hospital?
CHAPTER 3
1. Briefly identify Ellis and Ruckly. Why do you
think the author includes so many details
about these two minor characters?
2. Describe Harding. Why do you think Billy
identifies Harding as the “bull goose loony”?
What do Harding’s hands reveal about his
character?
3. What new information is revealed about Chief
Bromden when McMurphy asks Billy Bibbit
about him?
4. What pieces of information are revealed near
the end of the section?