1. Discussion Director O Writer’s Notebook (Emailed Night Before) O Discussion Points: O What’s going on? O Bromden – History? Perspective? O The Ward – Schedule O Shock Shop O Day Room (Chronics/Acutes) O “efficiency” – “wires” and “beams” (31) O McMurphy’s Arrival & History – Inciting Incident O Cards; Laugh O Foreshadowing conflict (41) O ONE PROBLEM WITH THIS ALL

2. Literary Luminary O Passages: O page 10 – Big Nurse (COLOR)/SIZE O page 13 – flashback – “it’s the truth…” O Page 16 – McMurphy – laugh O Page 27 – McMurphy’s hand O Page 41 – “…the Big Nurse gets real put out if anything keeps her outfit from running smooth.”

3. Concept Connector O Connections: O New Person at School (Admission) O Stuck in a fog O Telling on others (honor code) O Research: O Umqua tribe – tribe in Southern Oregon O The Dalles

5. Artistic Adventurer Self-Created: Poem Found

6. Character Coordinator O Bromden – Chief Broom O Cagey, Perception, History with Father in Flashbacks O History: (24) – father chief, mother not, (29) – electronics in college/Army; high school football trip to CA – 38-39 O 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 staff O 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…”

7. Character Coordinator O Acutes: O Cheswick – (17) staring at cards O Billy Bibbit – (22) stutter O Martini – (19) “discovering things under the tables and chairs” O Harding – (23) – hands, sexy wife O 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, Vegetables O Ellis – (19) started as Acute, Shock Shop, nailed with pee O Ruckly – (20) failure, riled up by wife O Colonel Matterson – wife brought him (21) O Old Pete (25) O Big George – (25) “water freak,” “unsanitary hand”

8. Your Job O BEFORE BOOK CLUB: O Read the pages O TYPE your Pre-Group Role Assignment (Notes) O WN O DURING BOOK CLUB: O Share your Role Assignment (Notes) & WN O Take Notes on Daily Notes Sheet O Highlights of Discussion O AFTER BOOK CLUB: O Add any additional notes O Post-Group Journal (Reflection) & Participation Grade O Discussion Director: Attendance Evaluation