Appendix B Summer Assignment 2: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Obtain a copy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey and read the novel in its entirety, keeping a double entry journal as you read. Double Entry Journal During your reading of the novel, you should complete a double entry journal. Teachers want students to do more than glide over the text, decoding with ease, but making only limited amounts of meaning. They want students to handle the text, take it apart, manipulate it, look for its heart, and find out what makes it tick, chunk it into meaningful bits, and then interrogate each bit. Double entry journals are a way to help students read with an investigating eye. It helps students to slow down and pay attention when they read. Double entry journals teach students the critical art of close reading. These double entry journals will be collected on the first day of the school year. You will write at least one journal entry for each chapter (or more if you have a poor memory for events). Keep in mind your journal may be used on the objective test over the novel that you will take the first day of class. Divide the notebook paper in half vertically (from top to bottom). This can be done by folding the page or drawing a line, whichever you choose. You must handwrite the following assignments in your spiral notebook. The left hand side of your journal will contain important quotes and/or summary including page numbers from each chapter. The right hand side of the page will contain your insights (including use of literary devices), questions, and responses to the reading. An example of a journal for the first 5 pages of the novel is below: Quotes, Summary, Page numbers Insights, Questions, Responses Narrator, Broom, is half Native Characterization=minority American (9) Point of view=first person Nurse Ratchet orange” of nails like Characterization=harsh; imagery “funny iron” (10); she up “smoldering “swells” when she yells at them for not working (11) Black boy and hunting around” Characterization=predators? “smelling (12) Significance of fog and machinery? Chief cannot stand being shaved (13) Reliability of narrator?
Appendix B Summer Assignment 2: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Obtain a copy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey and read the novel in its entirety, keeping a double entry journal as you read. Double Entry Journal During your reading of the novel, you should complete a double entry journal. Teachers want students to do more than glide over the text, decoding with ease, but making only limited amounts of meaning. They want students to handle the text, take it apart, manipulate it, look for its heart, and find out what makes it tick, chunk it into meaningful bits, and then interrogate each bit. Double entry journals are a way to help students read with an investigating eye. It helps students to slow down and pay attention when they read. Double entry journals teach students the critical art of close reading. These double entry journals will be collected on the first day of the school year. You will write at least one journal entry for each chapter (or more if you have a poor memory for events). Keep in mind your journal may be used on the objective test over the novel that you will take the first day of class. Divide the notebook paper in half vertically (from top to bottom). This can be done by folding the page or drawing a line, whichever you choose. You must handwrite the following assignments in your spiral notebook. The left hand side of your journal will contain important quotes and/or summary including page numbers from each chapter. The right hand side of the page will contain your insights (including use of literary devices), questions, and responses to the reading. An example of a journal for the first 5 pages of the novel is below: Quotes, Summary, Page numbers Insights, Questions, Responses Narrator, Broom, is half Native American (9) Characterization=minority Point of view=first person Nurse Ratchet “funny orange” of nails like “smoldering iron” (10); she “swells” up when she yells at them for not working (11) Characterization=harsh; imagery Black boy “smelling and hunting around” (12) Characterization=predators? Chief cannot stand being shaved (13) Significance of fog and machinery? Reliability of narrator?
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