themselves(Adams, 2013). Through her innovative teaching style she was able to communicate to her students by reading them stories about hardships that they could relate to. As time went on her students slowly started embracing her and together wrote The Freedom Writers Diary; which included the inspiring stories in her student’s journals, from their hard upbringings to their everyday struggles and how they were able to stay strong through it all. I chose Erin Gruwell as my leader to showcase someone with such
knowledge of not only a classroom education, but also an education of the world we live in. Education is a gateway to a positive future and a successful life. According to George Washington Carver, “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” Education is not a gift; it is a process that takes dedication and hard work in order to achieve the most positive outcome. Without education, many things cannot be accomplished; and many positive aspects of ones life could be missing. A beneficial
but, also in the communities where such interactions and ideals may be more concealed or masked as average. Injustice and being caught up in futile disputes leaves marks on those who experience such issues in any form. In The Freedom Writers Diary by the Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell, these ideas are brought to the attention of the reader, eliciting the same
Erin Gruwell once said, “Be the kind of people that have enough passion to change the world. If we let ourselves be fire, thunder, or lightning, we could alter everything.” This quote taken from “Teach With Your Heart” was directed towards the students of class 203, but to me it describes my personal teaching philosophy perfectly. I believe that every one of my students will be capable of reaching great heights in life if I am the fire under them. It will be my job, as their teacher, to motivate
between humans. Erin Gruwell was optimistic about teaching a class of so many different backgrounds but it was much more challenging to get through to such angry teenagers. Racial conflicts in America include gang violence, and even murder. The Freedom Writers movie gives a clear description of the life that every teenager has to go through while there are racial conflicts. In that environment, teenagers struggle to live through a single day having to deal with the fear of getting hurt even inside their
This past week I watched the movie Stand and Deliver. It has many similarities as Freedom Writers; however, it is not as well known. Stand and Deliver, a true story, follows the account of Jaime A. Escalante. Escalante is a new teacher at James A. Garfield High School who is determined to change the education system and challenge his students. The school’s students primarily come from lower to middle class families who are well below their expected grade level in academics and social standing. Being
Majoritarian is a person who is governed by or believing in a decision by a majority. White privilege tells their own story to benefit them. In the movie, “Freedom Writer’s” a teacher named Erin Gruwell, becomes a first-year teacher at a diverse school. She begins to teach freshman and sophomore level English classes with most of her students only being able to read at a fifth- grade reading level. Many of her students are on probation. Mrs. Gruwell wants to change all of her students for better
The aim of this assignment is to present an exploration and explanation of the process of transformation in and through education. This will be shown by looking at some scenes from the films, Freedom Writers and To Sir with Love. To begin with I want to consider what we understand by ‘education’ Education is an activity we all feel that we know something about, having had personal and direct experience of it. Education has become a large industry employing many hundreds of thousands of people in
shouldn't they follow their footsteps? In today’s society the lack of parenthood is an ongoing cycle that needs to stop. Raising about the influence will lead many generations to achieve impressive accomplishments. Works Cited The Freedom Writers Diary. New York: Broadway /New York $c1999., 1999. Print. Parke, Ross D. "Effects of Parental Incarceration on Young Children." From Prison to Home: The Effect of Incarceration and Reentry on Children, Families, and Communities. University
True freedom is about being accepted. This is especially true in the short story, The Strangers That Came to Town by Ambrose Flack as it further proves that freedom because it allows the individual to fully express themselves without retribution. It shows that true freedom is about being accepted. In this story, the Duvitch family is placed in a community where they struggle with acceptance and freedom and this was shown through three major characters: Mr. Duvitch, Mrs. Duvitch and the Duvitch children
When Mrs. Gruwell first arrives at Woodrow Wilson High School, she does not know what to expect. She teaches a freshman English class with students separated into their own racial groups. It is very challenging for Mrs. Gruwell to teach her students because they refuse to work hard, and they are not united together as a classroom. Mrs. Gruwell unites her students by making them read books that relate to their life. Mrs. Gruwell assigns Durango Street, The Diary of Anne Frank, and 12 Angry Men to
The movie I will reference for this assignment is Freedom Writers. Freedom Writers was directed by Richard LaGravenese, and release January 2007. Many of the concepts that we discussed in class could be seen throughout this film. I would have to say that the most prevalent theories were constructivism, social cognitive, and motivation. We discussed that a successful classroom will incorporate more than one theory, I believed that Ms. Gruwell implementation of more than one theory helped with her
The Film “Freedom Riders” depicts a teacher working in a hostile community that’s primary goal is the help the troubled youths. In the movie, we see gendering being giving a secondary theme in the movie. This happened between the main character; Erin Gruwell, and her husband. Erin Gruwell’s dedication to her new job begins to cause a shift in the relationship between the two, which ultimately ends with their divorce. The reason for them borders on the traditional belief that a man must go out
have all learned from these remembrances etched into our minds and it affects our everyday lives. As shown throughout The Dead Poets Society and Freedom Writers, the audience is exposed to the troubles these students experience and how he or she reacts to the situations he or she encounters. The similarities between The Dead Poets Society and Freedom Writers are pronounced, and they exhibit explicit examples of how home life influences education. The Dead Poets Society demonstrates a perfect example
As shown in the 1994 documentary, Freedom on My Mind, the story of Freedom Summer resonates today in many ways, but especially in its horrifying portrayal of evil. Many people would like to think that evil is separate from themselves, that it is inconceivable that they could take part in the atrocities of the past. However, the events of that summer in 1964 display the insidious nature of evil and how it can creep into even the most level-headed of humans’ mentality. Mercifully, the story of this
What comes to mind when you think about diversity? Differences can be good or bad depending on your view. If you have watched a movie about wars you might have an idea of what caused it. Freedom Writers is a movie that involves diversity and race, this sort of diversity can cause a serious problem. The way you physically look to the eye tells you how you will be treated by people. “Everybody thinks you should be happy just because you’re young. They don’t see the wars that we fight every single day”
In the film “Freedom Writers” directed by Richard LaGravenese, There are many good film techniques that work together very well and teach us 2 very important ideas of how some of Erin’s students really live and how prejudice we really are as well as how lucky we are to be living like we are right now, because not everybody gets away with it this easy. These techniques also structure the film well too keep the audience entertained and teach us valuable life lessons such as racism and prejudice, some
2007 drama film, Freedom Writers, directed and written by Richard LaGravenese (whose previous screenplays include The Fisher King and The Bridges of Madison County) starring Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton and Patrick Dempsey. It is based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell (teacher by profession) who wrote the story based on Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California. Hilary Swank stars in this enthralling movie of ghetto kids raised on street corners
school while in the poem, the boy and his father are advancing through life. In ‘Freedom Writers’, the kids do not want an education because they feel it is irrelevant in their lives. They think that surviving until 18 years of age is an achievement. Their change of perspective is related to school and their lives. This is different from the poem in which the change of perspective is about the boy’s father. In ‘Freedom Writers’, the teacher brought about the kids’ change of perspectives, so it was induced
Violence and Love In the movie Freedom Writers, what impressed me most is that those nonwhite kids seems to have inherent hatred towards other color people and what they choose to do to “deal” with those problems caused by racial discrimination, is violence----fight with fists or even guns. But is it right for those nonwhite kids to use violent ways to fight for respects or deal with bias problems? In my posture, it’s definitely not! On one hand, those immature kids lack of objective judgment, so