Into the Wild study guide

Remember that the reading is due on Thursday, January 7. You'll have a Socratic seminar on that day. Friday, January 8 is your final vocab quiz of the semester. On Monday, January 11 you'll have an in class essay. The prompt, as I told you is "why did Christopher McCandless walk into the wild?" On Tuesday, January 12 you'll have a test on the reading. The list below will help you keep track of important events and people in the reading.

“Billie” McCandless
14 Okinawan children
A simple brass plague
Alexander Supertramp
Annandale, Virginia
Bullhead City, Arizona
Carine McCandless
Carl McCunn
Carthage, South Dakota
Chris’s fast copies
Christopher McCandless
Colorado River
Datson B210
Davis Gulch
Denali
Detrital Wash
Devil’s Thumb
Emergency hand signals
Emory
Everett Ruess
F in high school Physics
Fairbanks City Transit System: bus 142
Flawless software program
Gauging station
Gaylord Stuckey
Gene Rosellini
Henry David Thoreau
Hitchhiking ticket
Jack London
Jan Burres
Jim Gallien
John Krakauer
John Mallon Waterman
Mayor of Hippie Cove
McDonald’s
Mexican boarder
Moose
NEMO
Oh-My-God Hot Springs
Potato seed
Quinn McCandless
Rice
Ronald Franz
Samuel Walter McCandless
Stampede Trail
Stikine Ice Cap
Teklanika River
Topographical map
Teklanika
The Slabs
W-4 forms
Washington Redskins
Wayne Westerberg

Your last vocab list of the semester!

The quiz for these words will be on Friday, January 8.

Part II unit 10

Words for Ridicule

1. Derision- ridicule, mockery
2. Bathos- anticlimax, false or excessive pathos
3. Burlesque- a comic imitation of take off
4. Irony- mild sarcasm, a firmly humorous effect of words, or a situation opposite to what one expects
5. Satire- ridicule, especially in literary form

Words for Light-Hearted Use

6. Levity- light mindedness, frivolity
7. Facetiousness- witty levity
8. Flippancy- pertness, lightly disrespectful talk or action, sauciness
9. Hilarity- boisterous levity
10. Jocularity- good-natured, playful joyousness
11. Ludicrousness- laughableness, ridiculousness
12. repartee- rapid, witty conversation or reply

Adjectives
13. Bohemian- loose, arty, unconventional
14. Catatonic- marked by stupor or muscular rigidity, often alternating with excitement
15. Ecumenical- worldwide, universal, church-uniting
16. Empirical- based on experience or experiment
17. Nether- down, below
18. Palatable- tasty, savory, agreeable
19. Paranoid- characterized by suspiciousness and a feeling of being persecuted
20. Psychedelic- producing an unnatural mental start

Socratic Seminar process

Was this inner circle discussion better then the last one? Why or why not?
What did you like better about this seminar?
What didn't you like?
What do you feel would help the class as a whole in the future?

Remember, no mean girl comments!

Civil Disobedience CONTENT

Write about one idea that someone brought up that stuck with you. Did someone change your thinking? Did someone bring up an idea that never occured to you?

Feel free to comment on the ideas other students mention as well.

Civil Disobedience

This is a link to Civil Disobedience. I have some books in the classroom if you would rather read from that. This online text has annotations that can help you understand cultural and historical references.

http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil1.html


You need to complete this reading by Thursday, December 3.

Active Voice

Here is a link that shows the difference between active and passive voice. Remember, you want to use ACTIVE VOICE.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/539/01/

Socratic Seminar CONTENT

Write about one idea that someone brought up that stuck with you. Did someone change your thinking? Did someone bring up an idea that never occured to you?

Feel free to comment on the ideas other students mention as well.

Socratic Seminar PROCESS

What did you like better about this seminar?
What didn't you like?
What do you feel would help the class as a whole in the future?

CCN Socratic seminar

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Student Generated Socratic Seminar

 Often the patients seem sane and at other times their insanity is quite clear. What is Kesey trying to accomplish?
o How does Kesey use his characters to convey differences between sanity and insanity?
o How do they change throughout the novel?
o How does this relate to society?

 What are the benefits and disadvantages to having Bromden as a narrator?
o What affect do his flashbacks have on the narration?

 Discuss the end of the novel.
o What affect does McMurphy have on the ward?
o What does his death accomplish that his life couldn’t?

 POWER and dominance over others play a huge role in this novel.
o How does the nurse assert her power over the patients?
o How does this relate to the machine metaphor?
o Describe the nurse’s actions and reasoning that relate to the death of Cheswick and Billy.
o What role does sexualization and sanitation (in the case of Nurse Ratched) play in the novel?
 How does this relate to Billy’s short lived confidence at the end of the novel?
 How does McMurphy’s final act of defiance relate to this idea?
 Discuss the role of women in McMurphy’s life and in the novel.
o What is the significance of McMurphy’s first sexual experience?
o How do McMurphy’s boxer shorts represent his character?
 Is the novel racist, or are the “black boys” an evil symbol?

 How is McMurphy a Christ symbol?

 Does McMurphy really exist, or did Bromden create a personality to help him escape the ward?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

While you are reading think of questions to ask your classmates. I'm hoping this will get a lot of the factual stuff out of the way before our Socratic seminar. I'd like everyone to post at least once before Monday. I'll start!

Why would Kesey use a sex addicted gambler as a Christ symbol?

Using Active Voice

Here is a link to the OWL at Perdue. This page shows the difference between active and passive voice. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/539/01/