Dead Poets Society Day 2 Notes

I am glad that we got to watch the movie I think that it is really going to help with writing the paper. There are a lot of good points and the way that Mr. Keating teaches is inspirational. I think that the two movies that we have seen have had a lot of good points and teaching styles. Both the main teachers were great and had very similar teaching styles. They both use humor to get across their points and the things they want the students to learn. They also push the students to their potential because they know that they have it in them to do great.

Dead Poets Society Day 2 Notes

• What type of teacher Mr. Keating is?
•  The school name is Welton not Helton…
• Mr. Keating is having the students say parts of a poem and then kick a ball
• Neil got the part in the play he is writing a letter to the school and faking it from  his parents
• The school is a very traditional setting
• The students seem nervous reading their poetry out loud in front of the class but Mr. Keating encourages them that their work  was not bad
• Todd did not write a poem
•  He encourages them even the ones that said they did not write a poem
•  He is such a great teacher
• The students like Mr. Keating a lot they open up to him
•  The kids are in the cave smoking pipes and having another meeting
• Chris invited Knox to Chet’s party
• Todd’s parents got him the same desk set 2 years in a row for his birthday
• Neil throws it off the roof
• The party is not what Knox thought it would be
• Knox is drunk at the party
• Everyone is making out at the party
• Knox gets caught kissing Chris’s forehead
• Chet beats him up
• The club has 2 girls come and they are trying to get girls to join the club and they want to get girls admitted in to the school
• They slipped an article in to the school newspaper and they are getting in trouble
• The Head Master gives one chance for the guilty party to come forward or they will get expelled
• They paddle Mr. Dolton because he was the one who put the article in the paper.
• He is told he has to turn everyone in and apologize to the school and all will be forgiven
• Mr. Nolan is questioning how Mr. Keating is teaching his students Mr. Nolan said that they need to follow tradition and get them to college.
• Mr. Keating says to Mr. Dolton that he needs to watch what he does or he is not going to be able to attend his class anymore.
• Neil goes in his room and his father is there and his father is talking to him because he forged that letter.
• His dad is making him quit the play the night before it opens and Neil is the lead role
• His father is an ass
• Neil goes to see Mr. Keating
• Knox goes to Chris’s school to apologize to her for what happened at the party
• Neil does the play anyway and lies to Mr. Keating about talking to his father
• Neil’s dad shows up to the play
• Knox and Chris go to the play together and they hold hands
• The play is a hit
• They other play member push Neil foreword because he was the star of the show everyone in the audience claps but Neil’s father 
• Mr. Perry tells Mr. Keating to stay away from Neil 
• Mr. Keating realizes that Neil lied to him and he looks disappointed
• His dad is making him leave school and go to military school
• Neil shot and killed himself
• Todd is very dis-trout about it
• The school is blaming Mr. Keating for what happened

What a sad movie I can't believe that he killed himself. His father was an ass and should have stopped and listened to his son and maybe he would have lived. Mr. Keating was upset also Then the school blames him for what happened to Neil which is not right. It took a lot of courage for the students to get on their desks and say O Captain My Captain to Mr. Keating in front of the Head Master. They all risked be expelled from the school to stand up for him.