Plan of Character Sketch

DEAD POETS SOCIETY

TOUCHSTONE PICTURES

A Peter Weir Film

HOME ASSIGNMENT FOR LESSON 1:

1. Study vocabulary for Lesson 1.

2. Read the verse, try to see its message and comment upon it:

Robert Herrick

Counsel to Girls

Gather ye rose-buds while you may.

Old time is still a-flying

And this same flower that smiles to-day

To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the sun,

The higher he’s a-getting

The sooner will his race be run,

And nearer he’s to setting.

That age is best which is the first,

When youth and blood are warmer;

But being spent, the worse, and worst

Times, still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time;

And while ye may, go marry:

For having lost but once your prime, you may forever tarry.

Lesson 1.

List of proper names

Walt Whitman, John Keating, Neal Репу, Todd Anderson, Stephen Meeks, Nocks Overstreet. Richard Camaron, Charley Dalton, Gerard Pitts, Chris, The Danberries,

Welton

Essential vocabulary

- Banners up!

- the light of knowledge

- What are the four pillars (of the academy)?

- In her first year Welton Academy graduated five students. Last year we graduated fifty-one.

- This kind of accomplishment is the result of fervent dedication to the principles taught here.

- a highly regarded school

- He won't disappoint us, right, Neal? – I'll do my best, sir.
- Rumor has it — you did summer school.

- to flunk English

- You're taking too many extra curriculum activities this semester.

- You should drop school annual.

- assisting editor

- Your study of trigonometry requires absolute precision.

- Anyone failing to turn in any homework assignment will be paralyzed 1 point off the final grade. Let me urge you not to test me on this point.

- You can call me Mr. Keating or a slightly more daring, "O Captain, My Captain".

- I, too, attended Hellton and I survived. (Note the play of words: "Welton" - "Hellton")

- At that time I was not the mental giant you see before you. I was the intellectual equivalent of a 98 pound weakling.

- a clue

- seize the day

- invincible

- to fertilize

- daffodil

- to lean in

- to obey

- Make your lives extraordinary!

- She's presently engaged to Chat Danberry.

- jerk (sl.)

- cute

- perfection

- score

- grading method

- excrement

- casualties

- to rip out a page

- It (the lesson) was very fascinating, misguided though I was.

Plan of Character Sketch

1. Appearance:

• age, build of figure, face, hair, eyes;

• features that distinguish this person among the others;

• smth. in appearance that may give a hint of any traits of character.

2. Background:

• (briefly) development of this character through the film, main problems which he/she faces;

• the importance of this character for general message understanding.

3. Character:

• traits of character (positive and negative), how they are revealed in the film,.

• the main, distinguishing features, qualities that you would like to point out.

• your attitude to this person.

HOME ASSIGNMENT

1. Study vocabulary for Lesson 2.

2. Learn the following quotation and get ready to recite it in class:

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, - these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain human life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love - these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman or me or life of the questions of these recurring, of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities filled with the foolish. What good amid these or me or life? Answer: that you are here and life exists and the identity. That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be? "

- Analyse the above quotation and comment on Mr.Keating's views on poetry and its role in human life. Write down your own ideas on this subject and get ready to share them with other students.

Lesson 2.

Essential vocabulary

- to keep a secret

- to suck the marrow out of life

- We didn’t just read poetry, we let it drip from our tongues like honey.

- I hereby reconvene the Dead Poets Society.

- endeavor

- morose

- to woo women

- You don't believe me? Come, see for yourselves!

- a Barbaric yawp

- unorthodox teaching methods

Grammar work: Practice Conditional Mood asking the students to express their ideas on the following:

- What if these students were girls...

What would they speak about? How would they behave? What would they wear?

HOME ASSIGNMENT

1. Study Vocabulary for Lesson 3.

2. Answer the following:

- What did Mr. Keating manage to do with Todd Anderson?

- What qualities should a teacher possess to inspire such self-confidence in pupils?

3. Make up and act out in class the following dialogues:

1. Two teachers of Welton are discussing this lesson of Mr. Keating.

2. Two pupils speak about their new teacher.

Note. To make the conversation more emotional use various modal verbs and moods.

Lesson 3

Essential Vocabulary

- conformity [try to find the definition]

- to take a stroll

- to be clapping

- to be underestimating the value of smth.

- an unmanned aircraft

- What the hell are you doing?

- So you, guys, are mishaving girls around here?

- imprudence

- to publish a profane and unauthorized article

- This is your only chance to avoid expulsion from school.

- Wipe that smirk off your face!

- to count aloud

- Sucking all the marrow out of life doesn’t mean choking on the bomb.

- There is a time for daring and there is a time for caution.

- to kick out

- Keep your head about you.

- You will not let me down, Neal!

- to quit (to drop) the play

- Playing is not a whim for you. You prove it to him by your conviction and your passion.

- virility

- infuriating

- Go, guys. I’ll catch up.

HOME ASSIGNMENT

1. Study vocabulary for Lesson 4.

2. Write an essay about Mr. Keating.

Lesson 4

Essential Vocabulary.

- We are trying very hard to understand why you insist on defying us.

- I intend to conduct a thorough inquiry. Your complete cooperation is expected.

- Do you really think he can avoid responsibility?

- Let Keating fry!

- You’ve just signed your expulsion papers.

- Read this document very carefully. If you have nothing to add or amend, sign it.

- a scapegoat

- to blow over

- reckless and self-indulgent behavior

- explicit

- abuse of one’s position as a teacher

- to skip

HOME ASSIGNMENT

1. The message of the film (speak about one, central message that appeals to you most)

2. Character Sketch (Neal Perry)

3. Comment upon the problems raised in the film:

a) seize the day, make your life extraordinary, don’t wait …

b) you should constantly look at things from different points …

c) eternal struggle of traditional, fixed and orthodox against new, innovative …

d) dangers of conformity; we must look for our own ways, … contribute our own verse …

e) philosophic approach to poetry and its role in human life

f) there’s a time for daring and there’s a time for caution …

g) problems of fathers and children

h) problems of education, whether its aim is to teach students to think for themselves or to fill them with certain information and rules

i) problems of life, its meaning and death

4. Dialogue: Mr. Perry and the Principle.

5. Translate and interpret the verse “Fire and Ice”.

Robert Frost

FIRE AND ICE

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

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