Comparing Coach Carter And Dead Poets Society

In 2010, Penny’s childhood best friend, Desmond Merriweather became ill with cancer. To help his friend out, Penny Hardaway assisted Merriweather in coaching his son’s basketball team at Lester Middle School. Eventually Desmond Merriweather became too sick to head coach so Penny took over. He started a tutoring program that was mandatory for all players, and as a result, their GPA improved drastically. He was not only helping out a dear friend and serving as a role model for those young boys, but he was also contributing greatly to his hometown.

Mr. Keating’s class and lessons are very different from anything else at the school. He teaches his students to look at poetry and life and a whole new way. This new way of thinking that he teaches his students is very transcendentalist. This is shown through the poetry that he reads to his students and his overall message of “carpe diem” or “seize the day”. He reads a large amount of poetry from Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau who are both very transcendentalist writers. Mr. Keating also encourages his students to form the Dead Poets Society in which they open

Through his teaching methods, Mr. Keating establishes in his students a sense of originality, creativity, and the ability to challenge themselves. The story also explores themes of societal expectations and the pressure to succeed, which can lead students into a spiral and question if what they are doing is really going to help them find what they want in their lives. In the face of these challenges, Mr. Keating teaches the students to listen to their own voices and follow their dreams, no matter how different they may seem. This struggle for self-discovery is portrayed through the character Neil Perry, whose passion for acting is suppressed by his father’s firm expectations. Neil’s fate emphasizes the film’s exploration of the consequences of denying one’s ‘true self’ in favor of conformity.

In the movie Dead Poet’s Society Mr. Keating is also viewed as outcast and a person who does not conform to social norms. Mr. Keating is viewed as a different and unusual teacher because he does not follow the traditional teaching styles. Mr.

First, Carter taught his players the importance of education he believed education was everything and students could do nothing without it. The basketball team at one part of the season was 16-0, and it came to coach's attention that some of his players were failing and when they could not bring their grades up he forfeited two games on the season, one of them was the most important game of the year. The players were really mad at first, but Carter talked to the players and told them if they just focused on the game of basketball and not there education half of them will end up in jail or dead. In the end, they started working harder and finally brought their grades up so they were able to play the rest of the season.

Coach Carter is based on a true story about a Basketball coach trying to turn a team of hood boys with minor chances of getting a bright future into a team of young respectful gentlemen with great success both on and off the court. 

Coach Carter's main purpose is not making the players become a successful basketball team. Instead, his focus is based on securing them a successful life. He wants them to have a standing chance at getting into college and encourages them into wanting more. This is seen although out the movie. The reason why Coach Carter wants them to focus on school and trying to get a better life. Is most certainly because he came from the Hood in Richmond himself. Coach Carter explains how some of his teammates from back when

Before they had known Mr. Keating all the students would have just sat in their seats and do nothing, but because he had played a big role in their lives, this made them follow their beliefs and tell him to

Mr. Keating was able to free the student’s mind by giving them a chance to think. In each class the students were to peruse everything from the content. Keating’s teaching method was not the “banking” method, it consisted of the “problem-posing.” Gaining knowledge from a book is not the same as gaining knowledge from another person. There is a scene where Mr. Keating takes the students to a corridor, he tells them, “Seize the day boys, make your lives

The movie Coach Carter was about Richmond high school's basketball team that was very small and did not have a lot of money. Also the high school had needed a new basketball coach and that's when Ken Carter came in. Carter had not only taught them how to play basketball, but had shaped them into being young men and going to colleges they would dream of going to. They had made it all the way to the State Championship, but lost it to a buzzer-beating shot. How can the movie Coach Carter influence an athlete's life.

Coach Carter made a contract to be signed by the team and the parents. It is about maintaining their grades to 2.3 GPA, attending all the classes, and sitting the first row of the class. But Coach Carter found out that team is forgetting about the agreement they had. That is why he decided to lock up the gym. He wants the boys to realize the importance of going to college.

In the movie, Coach Carter is consistent in his statements about what his intentions are as the new basketball coach and what his goals/expectations are of the young athletes. Chapter 11 of our text book, Anshell discribes the Ten Commandments of Communication. The Ten

In an effort to encourage the ideology displayed by Coach Joe Kennedy, Matt Calkins expresses gratitude and respect towards him throughout his article. Although Coach Kennedy does display rebellious features in his denial to district orders, Calkins assures that this is effective for the children as it teaches them about courage and it shows that it is okay to stand up for what you believe in. Calkins acts as Kennedy’s lawyer by showing the innocence and constitutional rights associated with his actions. Conjointly, Calkins cuts deep emotionally and reaches out to the great majority through his repetition of the words “Joe can coach my kid any day.” Along with emotions, this incorporates a personal connection to the coach because he is impressed

Coach Carter had trained this team to become undefeated, all thanks to hard work and discipline. The teams grades and attitudes slowly started to decline, Coach Carter took matters into his own hands. One day before practice Coach locked the gym doors, putting an end to their championship season. The team heard the news and broke out into chaos. Coach preached to the team that no one will be playing basketball until the grades are brought up, and the attitudes get better.

His teaching styles were very unintentional but you could tell what he was doing. Since he had experienced a similar situation when he was once on a team, he had wanted to give his team a different form of coaching that they wouldn’t have had expected at Richmond High School. Coach Carter did a very exquisite job at portraying these learning styles, knowing that there could have been consequences to a certain amount. It was gratifying to see that Coach Carter would do anything for his team, win or lose, he wanted them to come out successful and at least learn something even if it was a

The way Professor Keating taught was successful in the way that he made his students realize that they need to live their own lives. . An example is when he teaches the boys "Carpe Diem (Seize the day)." In the movie, Tim repeatedly says that when he is trying to win over a girl. Keating is successful because he teaches Tim to go after what he wants and Tim was persistent enough to keep at it and winds up getting her. Another example is when Neil decides to be an actor in a play. Even though his father is against it, Neil does is anyway cause he knows he has what it takes and he feels he has nothing to lose. I feel that if Keating did not teach his students to be themselves, Neil would have never gone against his father and he would have never enjoyed his life. When Neil kills himself at the end I think the blame is on his father because he would not let him do what he wants to do in his heart, he wasn’t being supportive of his sons wants. I feel that Keating had a very positive influence on him. Because of Keatings teachings, his students learned to live their own lives to the fullest.