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Robin Williams as English teacher John Keating |
Click on the following links to find interesting information about the film. "Carpe Diem"
http://www.scifiscripts.com/msol/dead_poets_final.txt |
Outline of the weekly Poetry schedule:
Day 1: Poem analysis
Day 2: Dead Poets Film assignment
Day 3: Poetry Jam("We be sing'n and a danc'n)
Dead Poets Society Unit Assignments
Film Assignments:
May 26 - Poetic Philosophy-See Package.
June 1 - Original Poem Project: 8-12 lines, any topic, any form except concrete or haiku, uses minimum of 3 poetic devices, typed, looks pretty.
June 7 - Love Poem Project
Poetry Assignment Instructions:
1. Poetic Devices: Use the Internet to make your own glossary. See course outline on the English web page for list of terms.
2. Poetry Analysis - Download the Poem Analysis sheet by clicking on the pdf file Print as many as you need, and complete them by the assigned date below.
3. Poems for the Unit Test: Download the poems from the Internet.
May 24 Death Poems - Because I Could Not Stop for Death/Death be Not Proud/Do Not Go Gentle...
June 3 War Poems - Do not Weep Maiden For War is Kind, The Man he Killed/An Elementary Classroom in a slum
June 9 - Love Poems - Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds.../The Passionate Shepherd to His Love-due. (Download "The Nymphs Reply" but no need to analyze it). That Reminds Me/Bredon Hill/To the Virgins-due
June 13 - Poetry Unit Test
June 15 -Provincial Exam Prep.
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Richard Cameron. He doesn't get it. |
Charlie Dalton is the rebel (not the raible). |
Todd Anderson is still trying to find his verse. |
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