Freedom Writers By: Maya Mohan Freedom writers is a book consisting of the diary entries of a classroom of a troubled youth from the inner cities struggling just to make it through each day. A courageous and kind-hearted teacher‚ Ms. Erin Gruwell took on the class as a first year teacher at Woodrow Wilson High school in Long Beach‚ California. She pushed past the students’ reputations‚ lack of funds and non supportive co-workers to help these kids achieve something many of them thought they’d never
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To what purpose do the playwrights use props and what is significant about it? ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’: 1. Cigarette case: The cigarette case introduced in Act 1 acts as a source for introducing the conflict. It leads the audience to discover John and Algernon’s double lives and introduces the notion of ‘Bunburying’ as named by Algernon. 2. Food: Food is used as a prop quite frequently throughout the play. In Act 1‚ we see Algernon preparing cucumber sandwiches for the arrival
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Timothy Kieu Watson HSE Period 2 September 1‚ 2014 Diary of Katniss Everdeen Entry #1 My name is Katniss Everdeen and I am the mockingjay. I was chosen for the 74th and 75th Annual Hunger Games and I ended it all. Prim is dead‚ mom and gale went to the help people. I killed snow and ended the corrupt government with a new generation of freedom and hope. I see a therapist twice a week and she told me it would help to write this diary but I don’t understand how remembering the gruesome past will help
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be adapted to any short story or novel when teaching character analysis strategies. It is a student/teacher-friendly‚ hands-on classroom resource that includes the following items: Introduction What’s in Your Character’s Head Diary Entry I Am Poem Character Collage About the Author: Featured on NBC’s More at Midday‚ Kimberly Dana is a multi-award-winning young adult/children’s author and teacher. She is published by the National Council of Teachers of English‚ Parenthood
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A Voyage to Remember Dear Diary‚ April 10‚ 1912‚ 12:00 A.M. The Titanic is HUGE. I’m waiting in line to board it right now. Since it is a long line‚ I figured I could write a quick entry in my diary. I’m riding on the Titanic to New York to take care of my very ill cousin. She has been ill for a couple of weeks and I am the only family she has‚ so when I heard about the Titanic‚ I bought a first-class
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of the tone or imagery can help create the overall meaning for a poem. Adding one of these or even both can help visualize the readers mind into better understanding how the writer wants to convey the meaning of a poem. The poem “Cinderella’s Diary” is a short poem that is supposed to be about Cinderella’s life‚ taking place after “happily ever after”. It goes to show that not everything has a happy ending. The very beginning of the poem starts with Cinderella stating that she misses her stepmother
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In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian‚ by Sherman Alexie‚ we see a common theme of a Native American child trying to get a better education for himself. Early on in the novel‚ Junior finds that his geometry book belonged to his mother before it belonged to him and he threw it at the teacher. “I couldn’t believe that the book belonged to my mother‚ how horrible is that” (31). This scene really sets the stage for him going out and trying to find a better education for himself. From then
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then move on to the discussion of a business cases. During the lecture it was interesting to go through the test‚ which made us understand what the strongest bargaining style inclinations are. In this diary the main focus is based on selected cases and final solutions observed in each affair. Diary of negotiations for Hamilton Real Estate: Negotiations started by introducing each company representatives and explaining interests of both sides in selling and buying the real estate. Both sides were
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Dear Diary‚ Tonight was . . . weird. Totally weird. The film was lousy‚ but Marcia came too‚ so I thought it would be better off she came along.. I hate when guys get drunk. For a start‚ it ’s totally against the law‚ then all the arguments‚ the fights(HATE FIGHTS) . . . It scares me‚ and if people with their knives . . . I just don ’t like getting involved. Neither does Marcia‚ much. I was watching the movie then they came. The greasers. The annoying graces‚ Strange greasers. Not like
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Some excerpts from my Wartime diaries in the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars Wednesday 11th. April 1945 Woken at 4 am to go into Lugo area with Recce party. Stood at cross roads for a couple of hours. Area lousy with mines. Late breakfast when tanks arrived. On April ll th I went with Lt. Walmsley by jeep to Lugo‚ the fortified town that is surrounded by water and to which access is made by many small bridges. We stopped the jeep on the outside perimeter and looked across one of these bridges at the town
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