Dead Poets Society Viewing

We will be showing the Dead Poets Society as a hook to draw students into my poetry unit. It is filled with classical poetry and presents the poems and poets in such a way students can relate. It demonstrates sharing and reading poetry with passion. This a quality all of my students will need to possess. Each one of them will be reciting a poem in the Poetry Out Loud competition. I plan to use this movie as inspiration for my students. This movie offers up comedic warm hearted characters and deals with some serious life issues.  Dead Poets Society examples several ways of finding voice in speaking and writing. It is my intention that this movie will inspire critical thinking and attract students to the topic.