Fiction

Book Title: Dead Poet Society

Background information:

In the autumn of 1959, some students begin their senior year of high school at Welton Academy, an all-male, elite prep school. On the first day of classes, they are surprised by the unorthodox teaching methods of the new English teacher, John Keating. A Welton alumnus himself, he encourages his students to "make your lives extraordinary", a sentiment he summarizes with the Latin expression carpe diem, meaning "seize the day."