In the Freedom writers‚ Eva Benitez was of one Ms. Gruwell students. Eva had a tough childhood growing up. She had to go through a lot‚ especially when she was a young girl. She will always remember the time when she saw her next door neighbor get shot for no apparent reason‚ just because of his race. Also a few minutes the cops took her father away‚ but they had no reason they just felt like arresting a Mexican. I think that by Eva seeing all of this at such a young age made her into a tough girl
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Freedom Writers Diaries – Their Story‚ Their Words‚ Their Future One of the main concerns that Erin Gruwell would face was teaching a group of kids that the school system process having an integrated school was a good thing in front of board members that had issues at that certain time in history. The school system did not look at how this integration with mixed cultures would affect everyone involved. This system would suddenly take them out of their own element and put them with mixed cultures
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There is an obvious discrimination shown in the movie “Freedom Writers”‚ where everybody hates everybody and they got no choice but to live in a world full of pandemonium. Random cultural implications are shown in the movie. Where one has to accept his/her society since birth‚ or someone has to really join a gang to keep up and belong to a hood. In the case of the students in the movie‚ they are just simply hopeless and what they all just do is to keep raging flames in their hearts. Until one tough
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The Relationship between Students and Teachers If students have a better relationship with their teachers‚ then they will have a better time in class. There are many reasons why I choose to do this observation. One reason is because many students feel as if their teacher does not understand them. However‚ in the observation that I am about to describe‚ students who connect better with their teacher have a better time in class. In my class I observed how my classmates interact with their teacher
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The Freedom Riders and the Civil Rights Movement In 1947‚ the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) planned a special journey called the “Journey of Reconciliation” designed to test the Supreme Court ’s 1946 decision in the Irene Morgan case‚ which declared segregated seating of interstate passengers unconstitutional. An interracial group of passengers met with heavy resistance in the upper South. Some members of the group served on a chain gang after they were arrested in North Carolina. The South
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choose between stay in a detention center or go to school‚ Eva chose to enroll as a freshman at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach. She was placed in Eric Gruwell’s English class. Like most of the students in the class‚ she does not care less what Ms. Gruwell said. Eva and most of the students usually skip class and brought back by an officer. One day‚ Ms. Gruwell played a rap song in class and gets everyone’s tension up. Especially Eva‚ she screamed out and say that Ms. Gruwell does not
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Clause as Exchange A. The nature of dialogue The clause is also organized as an interactive event involving speaker‚ or writer‚ and audience. Let us use the term ‘speaker’ as a cover term for both speaker and writer. In the act of speaking‚ the speaker adopts for himself a particular speech role‚ and in so doing assigns to the listener a complementary role which he wishes him to adopt in his turn (see Halliday‚ 1984a;Martin‚ 1992: Chapter 2). For example‚ in asking a question‚ a speaker is taking
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The student teacher establishes a routine that students understand and respect. Activities reflect careful thought‚ take into account student developmental levels‚ learning styles and diversity‚ and create situations in which students construct knowledge. The student teacher exhibits respect and consideration toward colleagues‚ particularly in team situations‚ supports colleagues’ work and contributes an equal share to team efforts‚ The student teacher encourages and elicits interaction with parents
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Writing stories: NARRATIVE PROMPTS Before writing your story: Note down your ideas: write an outline of your story List relevant vocabulary you could use: verbs‚ adjs‚ advs‚ linkers‚ nouns Develop a living‚ breathing multi-faceted character (you should know more about him/her/them than your reader Choose a point of view: 1st person narrator ‘I’/ 3rd person narrator.. Use your five senses. Show (create a visual image in your reader’s or listener’s mind)‚ don’t simply
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“The function of sociology‚ as of every science is to reveal that which is hidden.”(Pierre Bourdieu). The film Freedom Writers has hidden themes that can be explained by the three theories of sociology. The three theories of sociology: Structural Functionalism‚ Conflict Theory‚ and Symbolic Interactionism explain the behavior and experiences of the students in room 203. The students’ lives are filled with gangs‚ crimes‚ racism‚ domestic abuse‚ income inequality‚ poverty‚ unfair treatment‚ and lack
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