Confused Words QUIZ tomorrow
TODAY:
The continuation of Dead Poets Society
You must watch the movie and not your iPad. There is a lengthy journal for you to complete, so it behooves you to pay attention.
In order to help you out........all iPads must remain flat on the tables.
You may complete the journal on your iPad, and as always, paper works too.
We will begin our viewing of this Robin Williams classic today and finish it up on Monday.
Journal 8 - Dead Poet Society
Begin by jotting down a couple of notes to keep the characters straight. The main ones are...
Neil Perry
Todd Anderson
Charlie Dalton
Gerald Pitts
Richard Cameron
John Keating
Knox Overstreet
Steven Meeks
Dean Nolan
Answer the following questions in complete sentences:
1. What are the four pillars of Welton Academy?
2. Which pillars do the administration lean on and why?
3. Notice the short scene with the flock of birds. What might this symbolize?
4. What do the Latin words carpe diem mean?
5. What is the point of Mr. Keating's first class with the boys?
6. According to Mr. Keating, why read poetry? Why does he have them rip pages out of their books?
7. "You may contribute a verse." What does this mean?
8. What was the Dead Poets Society and what did they do?
9. What is the symbolism in the scene where the boys go to the cave?
10. Is Charlie too daring? Why or why not?
11. Is Mr. Keating a bad
influence? Why or why not?
12. Would Neil still do
what he did if Mr. Keating never came into his life? Why or why not?
13. Why didn’t Todd act
the same way as Neil in the end?
14. Who was really the
bravest of Keating's boys? Why?
15. In the initial
screenplay, Todd specifically does not sign the paper at the end. In the movie,
we are not told one way or the other. Did Todd sign it or not? Why do you think this way?
16. Dead Poets Society:
The Next Day... What happens next? What does the future hold for Keating and
the boys?
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