Paper Princess Erin Watt‚“ Besides his sperm my father’s watch was the only thing he left behind” (chapter 1). This line was an absolute favorite of mine. It could be interpreted in so many different ways. Her tone could be bitter‚ feeling as if the man she she was supposed to call father only cared enough to just leave her a lousy watch. Or maybe she means to have a playful tone‚ laughing at the fact that he was so inconsiderate and that he doesn’t deserve any hateful feelings she has to offer.
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Freedom Writers‚ written and directed by Richard LaGravenese‚ a high school named Woodrow Wilson‚ suffered in the aftermath of the L.A. riots‚ turning a once prestigious school into a school for the ‘bad kids’‚ or kids who had been to juvenile detention. Erin Gruwell‚ a first time teacher‚ went to Woodrow Wilson in order to teach and help the ‘bad kids’.
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Four Hundred and twenty three pounds. The weight of somebody named Butter in the book that’s conveniently also called Butter‚ written by Erin Jade Lange. As previously stated‚ Butter is a morbidly obese 423- pound teenager‚ and goes to high school at Scottsdale‚ Arizona. He is pessimistic‚ embarrassed‚ and is very lonely to say the least. Butter despises school‚ and knows that everybody at his high school hates to see the sight of how enormous he is. Since everybody pre-judges Butter‚ he basically
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a source of support‚ and an inspiration. Erin Gruwell is an American teacher‚ an education activist‚ and the founder of the Freedom Writers Foundation. She changed countless lives‚ with one distinctive teaching method. Erin Gruwell was born on August 15‚ 1969‚ in California. Gruwell earned her diploma from Bonita High School and continued her studies at the University of California. She later studied at California State University to earn her Master’s
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Freedom Writers is true story based movie showing racism and social disorder life in America. The movie starts showing racial tension and riots in the society among different ethnic minority groups fighting for their rights. In the beginning of the movie a childhood of a young girl Eva is shown who sees racial differences among people getting prestige and grace on how they physically appear. From an early age a negative thought is internalized into the young girl that “a girl can be crowned as a
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Three Choices In Life In everyday life situations we are arisen with problems that may challenge us. Reacting to these challenges‚ people take many different routes. How we respond to these bumps in the road is what defines us as individuals. In Freedom Writers we can see how the students face difficulties in their lives and in school; and how they choose to react to those challenges. The students of the film Freedom Writers choose to respond to challenge in three different ways; they give up
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students filled with such anger at the beginning of the story? 12. Do you think their anger is justified? INEQUALITY 13. Name one inequality among students and classrooms at Wilson High School. GROWTH AND CHANGE 14. Choose one of these characters: Erin Gruwell‚ Scott Gruwell‚ Eva‚ Marcus (the boy who went back to his mother’s house)‚ Ben (the Caucasian boy). Explain how the character changed from the beginning to the end of the story. ANNE FRANK 15. Why did the students make such an important
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org/‚ you will find information about the Freedom Writers Institute. “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.” Any final thoughts
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Shrader Movie Review: Freedom Writers Freedom Writers begins with Eva‚ a Hispanic just trying to get by in life‚ lay down the lifestyle they are used to. Hatred fills their streets and not even home is a safe haven. Hilary Swank assumes the role of Erin Gruwell who is a teacher new to Woodrow Wilson High. Woodrow Wilson High School was once one of the highest achieving high schools in the area yet with the new integration plans the test scores and achievement levels have dropped severely. Mrs. Gruwell
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Popular culture is often characterised by feature films and television serials which target a broad audience in an effort to systematically convey social commentary through inviting the perception of the viewer to interpret representations of everyday roles. This concept is central to ’Reel to real: Popular culture and teacher identity’‚ in which Mitchell and Weber (1999) encourage their audience to challenge the status quo of the teacher role as commonly perceived by society. Particularly‚ the text
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