The film stays respectful and honest when dealing with difficult subject matter, while also continuing to be fun and witty. You enjoy watching these characters, even when your heart wants to break for them. Each character is complete.Their struggles are believable, and their motivations real. Whether you have personally experienced their pain or not, everyone will be able to find something relatable in this…
Chris Street wrote the article, “A Reluctant Writer’s Entry into a Community of Writers.” In Street’s introduction, he describes how he had a student named John who seemed angry, and didn’t seem to like writing. Finally, Street decided to change his ways of teaching his class. He began to let his students talk about what they cared about and what they knew, while he listened. This began to change his students writing.…
Rita Mae Brown ‘Writing as a Moral Act’ says that speaking is a social contract. The unspoken truth is that we are unequal. All communication rest upon inequality. She fought against the tendency by portraying that language is the thread that will bring us to a form of agreement and understanding such as writing. Writing to her is more treacherous and it displays more serious act than speaking. She said that the writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. Writers are gonna be the one who will spill the truth.…
- The one character that stood out the most to me that experienced emotional labor was…
The first quote that really motivated me was Joan Didon’s quote "Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?" This really inspired me to think past of who I am as a writer and how I bring myself to the page with my strengths and weaknessess. For me the greatest part of writing is daydreaming and witnessing the transformation I go through when dreaming the dream of my story until it breaks out of the writing down of it which I always find hard.…
Writing is the way to interpret your thoughts or even your own self, wither you writing in college or personally and professionally. The way you write and express your thoughts and ideas, will reflect on all your life aspects, and the better ones writing is the clearer the image and the idea or the impression it will leave on others and readers.…
Writing has been around for quite some time. It has become essential for human living. It is a way of learning, communicating, and expressing emotions. It can be used to share ideas and spread messages. Some writing is more effective than others.…
Movies can often teach us important lessons. They can show us different perspectives of different people and situations. Often times, without knowing it, movies teach us things when we don’t think we are learning anything. The movie Freedom Writers has a powerful and emotional message. The message of this movie is that we are all the same under the surface, this is most relevant to gangs and gang violence.…
Fantasy, mystery, action, adventure, horror, and romance are all types of genres people generally have interest in reading. Most of the time, a person will pick up a book of the genre fantasy to escape into a different world, that may not exist. They may even pick up a romance filled book to day dream and fantasize. We have the freedom to read any type of book we desire, and the freedom to read it whenever or wherever we like. The Freedom Writers Diary is a non-fiction. A book that tells the story of war, reality, and struggles of daily adolescents lives. It’s a book that teaches and educates students, parents, and teachers honestly and straightforward to understand a different world than what they may live in. The Freedom Writers Diary should be taught in schools because it demonstrates students how to overcome adversity and find success, teaches students the reality and the dangers of events that could happen in reality, and also motivates and engages kids to read the book or even read a book in general.…
The Freedom Writers Diary is a true story of Erin Gruwell and her students at classroom 203 of Wilson High school in Long Beach, California. Only at the age of twenty-three, it was her first teaching assignment to work with students considered “unteachable” by other teachers. It didn’t take long for Erin to find out that getting a higher GPA was not a priority for any of the students at room 203. Instead of worrying about their homework, students faced gunfire, gangs, drugs and so much more situations she could not imagine. Students then convinced that such fragile white woman does not deserve respect because she had never experienced violence, discrimination or hatred which happened every day in their lives.…
Sometimes during free writing, we tend to wander off topic. This is fine during free writing, but afterward, it is important to make sure that the focus is clear. Today we are going to learn a way to help us focus and stay on topic, so that the writing is clear. When I began writing a persuasive letter, I decided to persuade people to read. This was my first attempt, during free writing: I really like to read.…
The movie “Freedom Writers” is based on a true story. Hilary Swank as Erin Gruwell plays an inspirational teacher at Wilson High School. Her class consists of different races and groups--African Americans, Latinos, Asians, gang members, and underprivileged students from poor neighborhoods. On the first day of teaching she is very scared and unsure, but she knows she has to stop the racism in the class as well as their attitude towards life. Despite the struggle to communicate with her students and refusal to participate during class, Erin finds interesting ways to communicate with them. A racially motivated gang shooting witnessed by a Latina gang member in Erin’s class, and a racial cartoon that Erin sees during class, help her in her teachings. They spark a transformation in the classroom, force them to listen and force her to take in the kid’s survival stories of their tuff lives on the streets. Erin begins to connect with them. She brings in music which those kids listen to and literature like The Diary of Anne Frank, and with these simple tools she opens her student’s eyes to the experiences of people who suffer throughout the world and the struggles of those outside their own communities. Moreover, Erin encourages them to keep a daily journal of their thoughts and experiences as she knows that a lot is going on in their everyday lives. After sharing their stories with each other the students see their shared experience and open up to the idea that there are so many possibilities in life.…
In the movie, The Freedom Writers Mrs. Erin Gruwell (Hillary Swank) plays a role of a dedicated teacher who did all she could, to help her students learn to respect themselves and each other. She has little idea of what she's getting into when she volunteers to be an English teacher at a newly integrated high school in Long Beach, California. Her students were divided along racial lines and had few aspirations beyond basic survival. Mrs. Gruwell was faced with a big challenge when a group of freshmen students showed her nothing but disrespect which made it hard for her to communicate, teach and understand them. However, Erin Gruwell was determined that no matter the cost she would teach her students not only the curriculum, but also how to respect themselves and others no matter what the race or ethnicity of each individual.…
The natural and reoccurring aspect of life, change, is one that has positive outcomes and cannot be reversed. The outcome of how change affects a person can be modified due to extrinsic factors of people or place. The inevitability of change can be daunting or reassuring for a person, depending on the way it is embraced. Humans change their perceptions of the world due to what they are subject to. Ones extrinsic factors and how they see the world is constantly shaping their intrinsic factors and his manipulating the ideologies of the forever developing human mind. As individuals, people continue to grow and mature due to how they lead their life. This Change can be seen in the Richard Lagravanese’s composed Freedom Writers, The students undergo a significant change in perspective that breaks down the cultural barriers between the students and opens their minds. This is due to the supreme catalyst figures of Erin Gruwell and also Miep Gies. Place is also a key factor in the sculpting of one’s perspective and the Holocaust Museum The students venture to is a momentous place that furthers their change in perspective. In the film The Composer supports this message through various film and language techniques.…
“The goal of the Freedom Writers Institute is to prepare teachers to use the Freedom Writer Method in order to improve the academic performance of their students. Led by Erin Gruwell, with support from original Freedom Writers and other educators, the Institute is a year-long program centered on a five-day seminar designed to equip teachers with the tools they need to reach and empower their students.”…