Daily Lessons for Teaching One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: The idea of duties is one that comes into play at many times during this novel. Today's objective is to discuss the role of duty in the story as well as in society today.

1) 1. Have each student write out their own definition of duty. And then have students compare it to the definition as listed in the dictionary.

2. In smaller groups,...
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