One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Lesson Plans

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Activity Pack (Prestwick House)

Activity Packs help fulfill state-mandated objectives and national guidelines AND spark student learning. Activity Packs feature a wide variety of activities such as role-playing, completing maps and charts, comparing authors' styles, and drawing... More »

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Response Journal (Prestwick House)

By reflecting on what they've read, students develop new ideas and link these ideas to their lives. To facilitate this process, we offer reproducible Prestwick Response Journals in the tradition of the response-centered teaching movement. Each... More »

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Teaching Unit (Prestwick House)

A teaching unit and individual learning packet from Prestwick House. Includes the following: Comprehensive chapter-by-chapter study guides for students Questions suitable for essay topics or discussion Vocabulary lists Muliple-choice and... More »

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Novel Test

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"One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" Characerization Worksheet

This worksheet helps students to better understand the characters and rank them in the order of craziness. More »

"One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" Choose Your Own Adventure Worksheet

This is an assignment that asks students to use their creativity to explore the external conflicts between McMurphy and the Nurse and how McMurphy's decisions help shape the plot. More »

"One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" Pre-Reading Worksheet

This worksheet gives a description of several of the main characters and asks students to judge their sanity based on the description, and explain why they feel each character is sane or not. More »

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Teaching Unit

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Activity Pack

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A Novel-Ties Study Guide (Enhanced eBook)

This Novel-Ties study guide accompanies One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a novel about a man's attempt to undermine the tyrannical control of a nurse in a mental institution.This Novel-Ties guide is a teacher/student literature unit organized in... More »

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A Novel-Ties Study Guide

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Response Journal

The Nest (tracking)

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A Bird in a Nest: High-Frequency Words: Stories and Activities

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The Odyssey Part Two Test

Objective test over Part TWO of The Odyssey. It can be combined with the Part One test to make a really LONG test! More »

Over the Wall: High-Frequency Words: Stories and Activities

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African American Authors: Book Analysis

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To Market,To Market/Hey Diddle, Diddle (Two rhymes)

Two familiar Mother Goose rhymes, one about taking pigs to market and one about watching the cow jump over the moon. Useful in building fluency, reading or saying aloud, and similar activities. More »

Analysis of Epictetus’ The Enchiridion

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Pacific Islands Economies Quiz (regular and remedial level)

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Jumbo Book of Writing Lessons

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