For those celebrating the Year of the Rabbit, and those out for other reasons Thursday or Friday, we will be watching the first hour of "Dead Poets Society". Click on the title above to begin watching the first seven or eight installments to be able to answer the following Focus Questions below.
If unable to download, stop by during Friday or Monday's L&L to view portions missed.
viewing "Dead Poets Society"
FOCUS QUESTIONS
Dead Poets Society, directed by Peter Weir—1989
Setting: Welton Academy, a Private all-Boys School in a Rural New England town; 1940s-1950s
Cast of Characters
*John Keating—Robin Williams *Neil Perry *Todd Anderson
Cameron
Knox Overstreet –loverboy Chris Danburry – blonde girl
Stephen Meeks Charlie Dalton Headmaster Nolan
On a separate piece paper or in your notebook answer these questions.
1. Compare your analysis of Whitman’s “O Captain, My Captain” in the first part of this movie with the characters relationship to Keating. Predict what will happen next.
2. Define and describe carpe diem. How will you express “Carpe Diem” today?
3. Explain how Welton Academy’s Mottos or Mission Statements: “Tradition, Excellence, Honor and Discipline are expressed in the film.
4. What will your verse be? For homework, and as one of your final 3-5 poems from Transcendentalist Unit, write a poem that is YOU.
5. Give three examples of how the characters epitomize Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”
6. ANNOTATE and write a brief reflection analyzing literary devices used, how it compares to any of the Transcendentalists studied and how it illustrates the relationship between teacher and students.
Todd’s Barbaric Yawp
I close my eyes
This image floats besides me
A Sweaty-toothed madman
With a stare that pounds my brain
His hands reach out and choke me
And all the time he’s mumbling,
“Truth,
Like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold
You push it,
Stretch it,
It’ll never be enough
You kick at it
Beat it
It’ll never cover any of us.
From the moment we enter crying
To the moment we leave dying,
It’ll just cover your face
As you wail and cry, and scream
Time Management: What can I do today to lighten my expectations tomorrow? Organization: Empty everything out of your bookbag, look over your Agenda. Tackle assignments in order of DUE DATE, difficulty, importance. Make a To Do List: checking off things done every so often Play: Get exercise EVERY SINGLE DAY
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
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