Blog Proposal for ​The Alchemist 

 
 
Name: Kelly Tagnolli   

Class: 7B 

Date: October 8th, 

2020 

Proposed subject y
​ ou  Subject:​ Psychiatric Institutions 
will study 

Questions​ to help you  Questions:  

think about and  ● What is a normal day like in a psychiatric institution? 
explore this topic  ● How does that affect a patient's mental being while in captivity? 
● How do they treat their patients and how do the patients react? 
● Why or how does someone end up in an institution like that? 

Rationale: ​Why do  Rationale:  

you want to study this  ● After reading the novel, “​One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” ​ by Ken 
topic? What is your  Kesey. I always had an interest to do more in depth about what it 
rationale for  is like in real life to be in a mental institution and see what the 
investigating it?   patients experience everyday they are there.. 

Summary​: What are  Summary:  

you investigating, how  ● What I am investigating while writing about psychiatric institutions 
and why?   is a whole different perspective then the one we have now in our 
daily life. We all have our normal routines whether it be a school 
day or a weekend we go by a certain schedule. I am going to be 
researching the institution's routines with the patients and what a 
typical day is in one of those places. I will also be blogging about 
the patients and their perspective of what goes on in a normal 
day and how their brains are reacting to the system. 

Prediction​ of what  Prediction:  

you will learn from this  ● What I think I will learn about during my investigation is a whole 
investigation  daily routine in the psychiatric institution. From the morning when 
they wake up to the night when they fall asleep. I think I will also 
learn about how the different parts of the brain are different from 
a mentally unstable person to someone like me. 

List of media you​ will  Reading and Resources:  

read about this topic  ● https://www.headspace.com/blog/2017/07/13/mental-hospi
tal/ 
● https://psychcentral.com/blog/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-mental-
hospital-patient/ 
● https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK20369/ 
● https://www.yourhealthinmind.org/treatments-medication/ps
ychiatric-hospitals 
Explanation​ of the  Importance:  
importance of this  ● The importance of learning about mental institutions and how the 
topic: So what? Who  brain correlates with mental illness is a very dynamic topic that 
should care?   should be discussed because, if you have a mental illness you are 
considered “not normal” even though developing mental illness is 
not necessarily the person's fault. If we learn more about what 
people in these institutions suffer from and if we can figure out 
how our brain correlates with the mental illness, people will 
develop more of a respect for people with mental illness and 
people will want to help others solve the problem. 

List the topics​ that  Brainstorm topics: 

you will cover for  ● Day in the life of a patient in a mental hospital 
three blog posts  ● The brain in correlation to mental illness and the hospital 
● Treatment of patients in the institution