Book Report on the Freedom Writers Diary
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, motivation and education.
The Freedom Writers Diary is a true story of Erin Gruwell and her students at classroom 203 of Wilson High school in Long Beach, California. Only at the age of twenty-three, it was her first teaching assignment to work with students considered “unteachable” by other teachers. It didn’t take long for Erin to find out that getting a higher GPA was not a priority for any of the students at room 203. Instead of worrying about their homework, students faced gunfire, gangs, drugs and so much more situations she could not imagine. Students then convinced that such fragile white woman does not deserve respect because she had never experienced violence, discrimination or hatred which happened every day in their lives.
One day, Ms. G intercepted a note being passed between students; the paper revealed a racist caricature full of hate-- A sketch of a black student with huge lips and curly hair. Gruwell told her class that it was this sort of hate and misunderstanding that led to the Holocaust. To her shock, her students had never heard of the Holocaust. Therefore, she introduced her class to Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and to Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo. Through the books they learned to see the parallels to their own lives. In addition, a journal was given out to note down their thoughts, feelings, and whatever was going on in their lives. For the first time, she caught the student’s attention and also brought them interest
The Freedom Writers Diary is a true story of Erin Gruwell and her students at classroom 203 of Wilson High school in Long Beach, California. Only at the age of twenty-three, it was her first teaching assignment to work with students considered “unteachable” by other teachers. It didn’t take long for Erin to find out that getting a higher GPA was not a priority for any of the students at room 203. Instead of worrying about their homework, students faced gunfire, gangs, drugs and so much more situations she could not imagine. Students then convinced that such fragile white woman does not deserve respect because she had never experienced violence, discrimination or hatred which happened every day in their lives.
One day, Ms. G intercepted a note being passed between students; the paper revealed a racist caricature full of hate-- A sketch of a black student with huge lips and curly hair. Gruwell told her class that it was this sort of hate and misunderstanding that led to the Holocaust. To her shock, her students had never heard of the Holocaust. Therefore, she introduced her class to Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and to Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo. Through the books they learned to see the parallels to their own lives. In addition, a journal was given out to note down their thoughts, feelings, and whatever was going on in their lives. For the first time, she caught the student’s attention and also brought them interest