Government within The Freedom Writers Diary “Invisible threads are the strongest ties” (Friedrich Nietzsche). This quote talks about the connections that cannot be seen or are not usually recognized and how those are the strongest ones. Connections can be made between almost anything. Sometimes a person has to dig a little deeper or put in a little extra thought to recognize or make a certain connection. The connection between the novel The Freedom Writers Diary and government is one that is not
Freedom Writers is a Hollywood film based on the book “The Freedom Writers’ Diary” by Erin Gruwell. The movie begins showing the 1992 race riots resulting from the beating of Rodney King. This sets the scene for the racial tension present in Long Beach, California. This racial tension has touched the lives of every student assigned to Mrs. Gruwell’s freshman English class. In order to give the students an opportunity to open up about their individual thoughts and experiences, Erin buys composition
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
interesting to me and that is probably why I made the decision to go down the psychology career pathway. I believe that choosing this career is much like how the Freedom Writers chose to beat stereotypes in the book The Freedom Writers Diary. I can compare my journey to wanting to become a licensed marriage and sex psychologist to how the Freedom Writers had to overcome how others stereotyped Ms. Gruwell's class. Ms. Gruwell's class use to be known as the “reject's class” or the “ghetto class”. For example
A variety of movies have boring plots and uninteresting storylines, however they are a few diamonds in the rough like The Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers is an in-depth perspective upon the rough suburban lives of what seems to be severely uneducated teenagers living in poverty. The movie was set in Woodrow Wilson High School which is located in Long Beach California. The school opened up voluntarily to implement an integrated program which was a major flaw and is severely unsuccessful. All
The Freedom writers movie and book are based on the real diaries of high students from Woodrow Wilson Classical High School. The book was published in 1999 and was writed by the students of Ms.Gruwell class. Mrs.Gruwell was a new teacher to WWC High School in 1994. She didn’t know was she was getting herself into. She taught Freshman that were at the 5th grade reading level. Students didn't really care much for school or anything else. The campus of WWC High School was divided from different races
Freedom Writers is an inspirational drama based off the book The Freedom Writers Diary. The movie takes place in the early and mid 90’s beginning with scenes of actual footage from the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Teacher Erin Gruwell, played by actress Hillary Swank, wanted to be a part of the integration plans put in place at that time and decides to leave the security of Newport Beach to teach at a school in Long Beach, where crime rates are much higher. This school is full of teachers and administration
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 a
The 2007 movie Freedom Writers gives a voice of hope and peace in a fragile environment where hate and sorrow battle in the life of urban teenagers. This drama film narrates the true story of a new English teacher, Erin Growell, who is designated to work in an inner-city school full of students surround by poverty, violence and youth crime bands. During the beginning of the movie, the teacher struggles to survive her first days at this racially segregated school in which students prejudice her for
Freedom Writers is a movie of a first year teacher named Mrs. Gruwell and her students. Mrs. Gruwell is passionate of her work and her students. Her students were classified difficult because of their lifestyle. Mrs. Gruwell had all the difficult students in her class. It was challenging for her to have the school commit in helping with reading supplies for the students. This lead for Mrs. Gruwell to buy her own supplies. The administration staff and other teacher did not have any hope for the students
their perspectives on life. Against all odds toward against Mrs. Erin Gruwell, she had the power of human will to teach the student. The writer introduced several scenarios on how young innocent children were influenced by family and friends of the same racial background to create hatred and gang’s violence against other races. Five messages in Freedom Writer are: Non judgmental, Racism, having compassion, the power of the human will, and education. Being non judgmental, having compassion and having
Freedom Writers- Theme Essay: The film Freedom Writers directed by Richard La Gravenese is an American film based on the story of a dedicated and idealistic teacher named Erin Gruwell, who inspires and teaches her class of belligerent students that there is hope for a life outside gang violence and death. Through unconventional teaching methods and devotion, Erin eventually teaches her pupils to appreciate and desire a proper education. The film itself inquiries into several concepts regarding significant
I chose “The Freedom Writers” from the movie list. I had not seen this movie before this assignment and I was surprised I missed it before now. This movie was not only about the diversity in a school setting but about a new teacher who went above and beyond to provide the opportunity for her to gain an education when all odds were against all of them. The main problems that these students were facing racial segregation, poverty, and educational bias. This movie was sad and inspiring because of the
Both Erin Gruwell in Freedom Writers and Jamie Esclante in Stand and Deliver faced students stuck in low-income backgrounds and neighborhoods of crime. Despite the low achievement of these students, both teachers were able to foster a mastery of a subject to their students. Even though the subjects of English and math are extremely different, one method united both teachers and allowed them to teach their students effectively— trust. Erin and Jamie were successful because of the trust they put
In the movie, Freedom Writers, the students of room 203 raised money for Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide Anne Frank, to come and speak at their school. When she arrived, the students were in awe of her bravery and courage, one even claimed she was a hero, however, she rebutted and said, “‘You are heroes every day’”. She was trying to convey to the students that her actions, while monumental now, were simply her doing the right thing. Whereas everyday Ms. Gruwell's students were fighting in an
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
Education in America not only means book learning, but it includes social learning, life experiences and decision making. For most of us, an education opens doors and gives opportunities for many things and is vital to lives. When watching the movie Freedom Writers, not only is it glorifying the television screen, but it’s portraying a story with meaning; either death, happiness, success or failure. Its meanings teaches more about the impacts towards people and various things day in and day out. This film
deep within himself. Reference Gargiulo, R. M. (2010). Special education in contemporary society, an introduction to exceptionality. (4 ed.). Sage Publications, Inc. Gruwell, E. (2007). Teach with your heart:lessons i learned from the freedom writers. New York: Broadway Books. Shechtman, Z., & Silektor, A. (2012). Social Competencies and Difficulties of Gifted Children Compared to Nongifted Peers. Roeper Review, 34(1), 63-72.doi:10.1080/02783193.2012.627555 University, O. (2010). Educational
People are persistent when they continue to work towards a goal even when difficulties and obstacles stand in the way. Perseverance is needed to over difficulties. In both my family and the characters in the Freedom Writers are faced with difficult challenges. Erin Gruwell in the Freedom Writers was very persistent. When Gruwell first starting teaching in room 203 the students were very disrespectful towards her and would not cooperate. Many of the students were not expected to graduate and go to college
In the movie freedom writer, author Erin Gruwell explains how some teachers’ effect on their students’ behavior, education and whole career. Ms. Gruwell as a teacher of unmannered, rude and mean students. Changes her students whole life by a positive attitude. In this movie the best moral was attitude can make a lot differences. Ms. Gruwell students become changed because she made school environment like a home where everyone was free to express their comments and concerns. She worked really hard