Book Report on the Freedom Writers Diary Ten years ago‚ The Freedom Writers Diary was published and soon became an international sensation. Today‚ more than one million people have read it‚ and they have even made it a motion picture starring Hilary Swank. As the freedom writers all graduated from high school and keep on advocating their deeds‚ the journey continues. Through the report I would like to divide them into four sections to discuss: origin‚ differentiation
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Analysis Sheet For Other Related Texts * Name of text: Freedom Writers (2006) Film * The composer of the text: Richard Lagravense Write a brief description of the text‚ mentioning its purpose‚ audience and giving a brief summary of the content: Set in Long Beach California the film ‘Freedom Writers’ is about a young beginning teacher who is soon challenged by a group of Black‚ Latino and Asian gang members who have extreme hate for the new teacher‚ Erin Gruwell. Over time Erin
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Freedom Writers Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank) is a first-time teacher who wants to make a difference. 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 are divided along racial lines and have few aspirations beyond basic survival. When Erin discovers how much of their lives are blighted by racial prejudice‚ she introduces them to books like ’The Diary of Anne Frank’ and begins
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Freedom Writers Assignment The character I’ve chosen is Eva Benitez ‚ is a 18 year teenage Mexican American girl short wave hair ‚ tan skin wears red lipstick and hoop earrings has that tomboyish look . Life changes during her childhood. The first day of school for Eva she was waiting for her dad to take her to school ‚ when it turn out to be the day she saw a friend die right in front of her eyes . Eva’s
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Brought Together By Education Segregation has been a problem for quite some time‚ and it has trickled down from generation to generation‚ influencing younger and younger children every day. The problems the teenagers were facing in this book‚ The Freedom Writers Diary‚ were simply because of the segregation they were either taught or learned from the people around them. With the help of Ms. Gruwell‚ these teenagers became more open-minded about their peers and realized they needed an education. “You
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A deeper perspective on the “good teacher” myth Movies make up part of the dominant discourse reflecting and at the same time affecting society (Farhi‚ 1999). The mythical portrayal of the good teacher in Freedom Writers supports the idea that urban schools are in need of a “good teacher” (who is portrayed as being perfect) to save the unruly children in this locale from their limited and culturally inferior worlds. The students are expected to cultivate new academic skills and cultural values with
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Name ___________________________ English I Teacher _________________________ Fall 2011 Period ___________________________ Outsiders Date ____________________________ Freedom Writers Written Response Worksheet Directions: Please answer the following questions as you watch the film. Please use complete sentences. RESPECT 1. Why do the students initially only trust peers from their own ethnic/racial groups? 2. How does Ms. Gruwell earn the respect of her students? 3.
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Freedom Writers Diary Movie Questions 1. Eva’s view of herself and her people is that their nationality is competing with other races because of the discrimination. When Eva is a child‚ she is taught by her father that she has to fight for her people. “An Aztec princess is chosen for her blood‚ to fight for her people‚ as Papi and his father fought‚ against those who say we are less than they are‚ who say we are not equal in beauty and in blessings”. 2. According to Eva her father is arrested for
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The Sense of Responsibility Can Change Students The story of “Freedom Writers” was set in Long Beach. Erin was a new teacher who believed the way to stop racial hatred is to change the young’s minds. The students in the school where she worked divided into four camps: whites‚ Latinos‚ Cambodians‚ and blacks. Every group hated each other. Erin wanted to change this condition and wanted everyone to change. In fact‚ she did it. Now here is question. Why Erin could do something that others did not finish
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Showing Respect Aileen Hernandez M. As teachers‚ usually we have to deal with a lot of things‚ such as yelling in the classroom‚ running in the halls and the lack of respect. Nowadays‚ disrespect is filling our classrooms and parents do not do anything to put a stop to the situation. As teachers or human beings we do not have to confuse respect with fear‚ because our work is to give tools and knowledge to our students‚ not frighten them. Kids are not showing any type of respect to teachers
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