Freedom Writers Diary

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The Freedom Writers Diary is based on a true story that takes place at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. Wilson High School was always recognized for being an upper class white school but that shortly distorted and taken over mainly Latinos, African Americans, and Asians. Students initiated to be moved in which created a more diverse school. Erin Gruwell experienced the first hand when she was offered her first teaching job at Wilson. Ms. Gruwell was not given just any teaching job, she had been asked to work with vulnerable students. Every other teacher and the administrative board looked down upon the students. However, Ms. Gruwell knew she had to be the one to view them contrarily and give them an opportunity to improve and change for the better. A teacher first week at …show more content…

The teacher observed the school and the students more. She tried to encourage and show the students how they possible went through the same obstacles by doing class actives as one. Realizing that her students had more to worry about than homework, students went home to gangs, drugs, abuse, and many other strenuous satiations and they were all divided into four racial divisions. Month goes by in school students gradually started to change as individuals. After Ms. Gruwell caught a note going around the classroom that had a drawing of one of the students named Sharaud. What the pictured depicted was an African American male with vast lips. The teacher used the adverse situation as a learning opportunity by comparing the drawing to the Jews during the Holocaust. Gruwell pointed out that caricatures were common tool of the Nazis during the Holocaust. She was dazed to learn her students never heard of it before considering they were in high school. After this Ms. Gruwell changed her teaching

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