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=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= A2: Literary Text Grades 9-Diploma: //One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest// Students read fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, within a grade appropriate span of text complexity, and analyze the characteristics, noting how structural features and common literary devices help shape the reader's response. d.) Analyze the literary devices that define a writer's style and use those elements to interpret the text. ||
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results: English Language Arts A. Reading

//What understandings are desired?//
•Not all literature uses every literary device, but all works include some. •Themes are how writers communicate on common ground with their audiences, and that there is a difference between topic and theme. ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * •The qualities of the main characters often create the plot and result in the resolution.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
•How did Ken Kesey use literary elements and devices to enhance One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? •How can you identify themes of a literary work? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * •Why do the qualities of the main characters bring about and result in the resolution of the plot?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
•Important people and events: McMurphy, Nurse Ratched, Chief, the boat trip, electroshock, schedule. •Topics and Themes: Racism, Women as Castraters, Insanity as Freedom, Oppression, Conformity, Sanity || •Describe recurring themes that appear throughout the novel. •Evaluate structural elements of the plot and the way in which the conflict is resolved. •Invent a script of their own using the literary devices exhibited in the novel. •d. Analyze literary devices that define Ken Kesey's writing style and use those elements to interpret the text. •Consider the qualities of a character and relate them to their lives. •Recognize dynamic and static characteristics about themselves. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * •Literary Devices: metaphor, simile, topic, theme.


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**