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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

**Week 1: Job A: None Job B: Erik Job C: Sam Job D: **Cory, James, Brian

Job B: Erik

1. On your group's wiki page, describe the main characters in your text. What makes them interesting? The narrator is not the main character. He is Chief Bromden and he talks about what type of people go to the mental institute hate people who had two many brain surgeries. What is their storey or background? She is one of the patients who pretends he is deaf so that he can hear people talk and he writes in his journal about what he see's and happens. Why are you drawn to them? Conversely, are there any characters that you just cannot stand? Why not? I think that we are write to the Chief because he has interesting stories and you want to hear what she has not to say. There is no one that we can not sit down yet.

Job D: Brian 1) Who are the Chronics? The Acutes? The Wheelers? The Vegetables? 1. The Chronics are the patients in the mental institution who are not able to be cured. The Acutes are the opposite, meaning the doctors still believe they might be able to cure them. The Wheelers are Chronics who are in wheelchairs (very creative name). The Vegetables are Chronics who are paralyzed from the neck down and can't do anything by themselves. 2) Why does the author use slang language? 2. The author probably uses this type of language to increase the effect of the descriptions and the overall quality of the story. 3) Who is the Big Nurse? What is her significance? 3. The Big Nurse, Nurse Ratched, is the head of the mental institution. 4) Why is the the narrator's name Chief Bromden? 4. According to the doctor, he is Indian, and his father was the tribal leader, hence the name "chief". However, they do not know where the Bromden came from. 5) Do you think the plot of the book will become clearer as we continue reading? 5. Yes, the plot will exhibit itself more as the story progresses. Right now we are in the exposition where the characters are being introduced. Hopefully the next fifth will be less confusing and we will learn more about the story.

Job C: Sam Week one in Round 3 of book club was a very progressive week. Although all of us were very excited from the snow day the day before, we bared down and caught up with the work we missed. Brian supplied our group with several great questions for our group to discuss. Erik made sure we were in line stayed on topic. Cory and James showed great participation in our conversation and brought up many new interesting points. We cleared up our confusions and moved on to new topics. In conclusion, week one was a very successful one.

Week 2: Job A: Erik Job B: Sam Job C: Brian Job D: James, Cory

Job B: Sam 1) On your group's wiki page, discuss the type of language that your book contains. Is it easy to read? Conversational? "Classic"? Does it use a lot of words you don't understand? What grade level do you think the book is written at, and why? One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a very interesting book that cover's a rather touchy subject. Although it has received many awards for being one of the greatest novels of all time, our group thinks that it is a little challenging to read. It seems that the book is really old fashioned and hard to relate to. This is because the book is more classic then contemporary. However, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is a very good book to talk about in our book club because there is so much going on. If I were to choose a grade level for this book, I would recommend it for kids in high school. This is because the language is very complex and there are a lot of difficult words to understand.

Job C: Brian

Our group discussion on Friday was very interesting. Since nobody brought in food, we talked for the first few minutes of class. Second, we discussed our book and responded to the prompt. We talked about the language that the author used and the grade level it was for. We said the book was really old fashioned and some of the language was hard to understand. Because there was a substitue teacher, we were able to be more lenient than normal. Although we did discuss the book, we occasionally had a conversation with the sub about hockey and other topics. The book, so far, has not been very interesting. Overall, it has been very confusing with many abnormal characters. As we read farther, the plot should clear itself and we might be able to understand it better.

Job D: Erik

1. What does Ratched do after every meeting in the conference room that makes him act like a slave. He has to clean the whole room to teach him hard work. 2. What does Ratched assign McMurphy to do. Ratched assigns McMurphy the chore of cleaning the latrines, but he continues to nettle her in every way possible. 3. Where is the warden taken to at the Hospital. He is taken to the hospital pool and the pool was emptied of people for him. 4. What does Harding do to every visitor he gets? He comments and corrects there grammar that chases away all of his visitors. 5. What does McMurphy do after he learns Ratched can leave the hospital? After McMurphy learns that Ratched will determine when he can leave the hospital, he chooses to conform to the hospital’s set of norms and rules.

Week 3

Job A: Sam Job B: Brian Job C: James Job D: Erik, Cory

Job: D 1. What did Ratch assign McMurphy. Ratched assigns McMurphy the chore of cleaning the latrines 2. What did the patients complain about? They started to complain about the rules. 3. What does Harding to when the patients keep asking her questions at her house? She makes fun of their grammar and get them angry so they leave. 4. What is a canteen? It is a stand you can receive stuff for being good. 5. Why did McMurphy punch through the glass? He was frustrated that he couldn't get his cigarettes.

Job C: James This week we had a lot of good discussion. Sam brought in unhealthy, delicious snacks of popcorn and a variety of different chips. After our snack we began to discuss this weeks reading. Brian showed off his great memorization skills when he told us what a canteen was. This weeks discussion was pretty good, but we still are struggling a little bit with it.

Job B: Brian The mood of this book that overrides all the others is confusion. Throughout the book, the reader does not understand fully what is going on. For example, the book may mention certain groups of people, yet not explain who they are until the next chapter. The entire book was hard to follow for unexperienced readers such as ourselves, and at certain points even skilled readers must have had trouble fully comprehending the meaning.

Week 4 Job A: Brian Job B: James Job C: Cory Job D: Erik, Sam

Job C: This week we mad a lot of connections in the book. Also, we had some great foods brought in by Brian and Erik. Brian once again showed his superiority reading comprehension abilities to the rest for the group and shamed us all to the point where we were forced to kiss his shoes after class. If not for Brian our group would have gone nowhere.

Job D: Sam

1) Why does Nurse Ratched threaten to cancel the fishing trip, and what does this lead to? She threatens to do so because all the patients cannot fit into Candy’s car, and they do not have a second driver. In by doing this, Nurse Ratched discovers that McMurphy lied about the cost of the rental car just to make a few bucks off the other patients, She then tries to humiliate McMurphy in front of the others but fails to succeed because they didn't care. 2) When they say the fishing trip is going to be therapeutic for the patients what does it mean? It means that the trip will help the patients get their mindsets back to the correct state and it will help in the healing of their "disease". 3) What two unpleasant experiences threaten the therapeutic value of the fishing trip. What do these experiences result in? First, when the gas station attendant makes rude comments to the patients, McMurphy stands up for himself by using the fact that he is mentally ill to his strength and inspires the others to do so as well. Secondly, once out to sea, McMurphy forces the patients to fend for themselves, instead of helping them. As a result, these experiencs actually helped the patients because they stuck up for themselves later in the book when the seamen were poking fun at them and they also found that they could to things for themselves without any guidance. 4) What important information does the lifeguard give McMurphy? The lifeguard tells McMurphy that only the committed patients can leave only at the staff’s discretion

Week 5 Job A: James Job B: Cory Job C: Erik Job D: Sam, Brian

Job C: Today was the last week of book club. None of us liked the book because it was extremely hard to follow. Everything was changing and the book was extremely hard to follow. We all said that for next marking period, we should go back to picking our own book because it was a lot more interesting to read about. James brought in a huge snapple and potato chips.

Job D: Sam

1) How did everyone feel about the book? We all felt that it was slow and hard to catch on too.

2) Would you recommend it for any specific audience? Because it's one of the greatest novels of all time we would recommend the book for teachers and their classes.

3) Is it a good idea to read a novel like this for the next book club? If we were assigned to read another classic novel it would be a challenge because this one was very tough for us to get into, and grasp the concept.

4) What type of book would be a better one? A newer and more interesting book would be a good one. Hopefully next time we enjoy it.