2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Start at 45 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5NyyC- UjBM&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5NyyC- UjBM&feature=related

3. What is Insanity?

4. Insanity: Definition from Google: The state of being seriously mentally ill; madness. Extreme foolishness or irrationality. Are all insane people bad?

5. Examples?

6. Robert Browning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Browning#Major _works http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Browning#Major _works Wrote several poems about criminal behavior/murder Characters often seem a little off, perhaps crazy

7. My Last Duchess What is going on here?

8. My Last Duchess Take out a piece of paper: Write for 3 minutes and consider Is this character crazy? Why or why not?

9. Unit Journal Turned in after each class Graded on effort/completion not grammar etc. I am looking for your thoughts/interpretations here. Not your writing skills. Not this time! I prefer if you type it but don’t have to, just make sure I can read it

10. Lesson 2

11. Discuss Journal Entries Pairs (2) 5 minutes Either read or just talk about questions

12. Enter Edgar Allen Poe American author, 19 th century Also wrote a lot of crazy stories about crazy people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe

13. Are they all bad? Is insanity bad?

14. Remember the Definition of Insanity? The state of being seriously mentally ill; madness. Extreme foolishness or irrationality. Can we think of anything better? Other words?

15. Insane vs Misunderstood?

16. Final Paper Select a novel Start Reading Don’t worry too much about paper yet, read assignment, understand it. Not Due until TWO WEEKS after the unit

17. Lesson 3

18. Small Group Discussion Groups of 3-4 Use Journals Why do we read about these characters? Why do we like to? Present ideas to class

19. Can we relate? Shutter Island: Summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_%28film% 29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_%28film% 29 Ending: (Spoiler alert!)

20. Bad Characters we like? CharacterWhy “bad”Why we like them anyway?

21. Let’s Write!

22. Lesson 4

23. Small Groups Share and Discuss writing Read each others stories Can relate to these people? If not, how could we relate to them even if they were still insane? If we can find ways to relate to insane people, does that make us insane? Small group discussion on writing and this question eventually become full class.

24. REALITY Re-ality and Re-late (similarity) What is a reality? Definition (freedictionary.com): The quality or state of being actual or true. That which exists objectively and in fact.

25. The Reality of the Insane Different than ours? Is it still real?

26. The Secret Window Johnny Depp – a killer that is not aware mentally that he killing people Let’s watch a clip

27. The Reality of Mr. Depp Our reality while watching this movie: What do we know that he does not? Are our realities different (his and ours)? How do we explain this if working with our earlier definition of reality?

28. Lesson 5

29. Stephen King Contemporary Author Writes a lot of books, a lot of books made into movies (The Shining, Carrie, The Green Mile, any others?) Short Story: Strawberry Summer

30. Personality Quizzes

31. Yearbooks Draw a quick sketch of yourself – include your name On a different sheet of paper, write three things you think about yourself (no one else will see this) Send your “yearbook” off Pass it around and everyone write COMPLIMENTS on each other’s yearbook pages

32. Reality? Is anything real? Actually different perspectives on reality – not one we first think Journal #3