FREEDOM WRITER QUESTIONAIRE 1. What are three status symbols found in the movie? - Erin’s pearls symbolize the wealth of her father‚ being as they were a gift from him. - Erin’s wedding ring symbolizes that she is married. - The tattoos on the Holocaust survivor’s arms symbolize their status as Jew. 2. Which character(s) experienced role conflict? Give an example - Although Eva and Erin both experienced role conflict‚ I feel that Erin had more of an obvious conflict.
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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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this assignment I chose to watch Freedom Writers. This is a heartfelt movie about a teacher named Erin Gruwell who finds a way to unify her disadvantaged‚ racially divided students and to improve their grasp of academics‚ partly by having them keep journals about their violent‚ troubled lives. The main diversity issue in this movie is cultural‚ ethnic‚ and racial tensions. According to Storti (1999)‚ “Culture is the shared assumptions‚ values‚ and beliefs of a group of people which result in characteristic
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The movie “The Freedom Writers” is based on the true story of Erin Gruwell’s English classes at Wilson High‚ an integrated school with students of all racial and cultural backgrounds. As a new teacher she is given the lowest achieving students. For safety and belonging most of these students belong to racial gangs and bring this social concept into the class by sitting in racial arrangements. Their morals and self concept are defined by these gangs‚ as shown by Eva’s statement of “we protect our
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Ju’Bari Smith Hero There are many heroes among us‚ in our everyday life whether we know it or not. Everyone’s a hero in their own way. They could be a hero to others they on what they have accomplished in their past life. People that faces challenges everyday and overcame them‚ to me‚ they are heroes as well. They might have inspired another and helped them find away to change their life and to do better in life. Let’s take my mom for an example‚ she is a true hero. Mom had been through
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Possible answers for Six Step Analysis of Freedom Writers exposed 1. List all the different examples of belonging evident in the text: The students are clearly identified as belonging to an ethnic group‚ based on colour‚ race and ethnicity‚ e.g. the Cambodians‚ the Latinos‚ the African Americans and the ‘whites’. They also identify themselves as being gang members and belonging to the gang‚ including having territory and ‘protecting your own’. The majority of the students live in an area
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Freedom Writers Gang violence in Los Angeles was at its prime in 1992 right after the infamous Rodney King incident and Los Angeles riots that locked down the city for three days. (Rodney King and the Los Angeles Riots‚ http://www.citivu.com/ktla/sc-ch1.html) Teenagers in the rough neighborhoods of California thought that they were destined to become gang members with their respective races‚ to fight a battle that their ancestors started. During this time period‚ teenage gang members felt that
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multilayered structural and institutional problems. Although urban problems mainly stem from socio-political power relations rather than individuals‚ classroom teachers must shoulder the responsibility for making education caring for urban youth. Freedom Writers (2007)‚ a film released in 2007‚ addresses the complex challenges that inner-city teachers face by acting the special pedagogy of one teacher‚ Erin Gruwell. Throughout the film‚ the main character Ms. Erin Gruwell is an exemplary teacher regardless
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In the movie‚ Freedom Writers‚ it showed kids with rough backgrounds all join together and become the best versions of themselves‚ this sends the message to viewers that everybody has the opportunity to better themselves no matter their
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individually‚ within a group‚ community‚ society or the larger world. This sense of belonging can be earned through our family‚ friends‚ likes and dislikes and backgrounds. Belonging to a group can operate both positively and negatively in our quest to define ourselves. In belonging to a group we satisfy our needs for belonging‚ acceptance and approval however in order to maintain our position in the group we often have to put individual needs second and put the needs of the group ahead of our own interests
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