Title- Freedom Writers Author- Richard LaGravenese (screenplay) Erin Gruwell (freedom writer’s author) Year of publication- The movie was released on March 2nd‚ 2007. Text type- Film Synopsis- Freedom writers is a true story from 1994 about a young‚ new English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School ( Erin Gruwell) who implemented a voluntary integration program for underprivileged‚ gang related kids. The integration has ruined the schools academic standing with many of the teachers
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what they didn’t have‚ that what they did in life really didn’t matter. As the story progresses you can definitely see how this affects the students’ self-esteem. Yet‚ despite all the years of a negative self-concept they find sympathy in Mrs. Gruwell. It’s within this young teacher’s heart that she grows beyond herself and her accustomed lifestyle‚ to develop a strong sense of empathy. She literally puts herself in her students’ place and gets herself into their mindset‚ when the kids finally
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Tomorrow when the war began Storyline Seven Australian teenage friends from a small town go on a camping trip to be with nature. During their trip‚ they see military aircraft fly overhead. What they didn’t know was their country was being invaded by another country. Returning home‚ they discover that they are at war. With no training‚ they band together to fight the enemy.Written by Douglas Young (the-movie-guy) Response Tomorrow when the war began originally a novel by John Marsden shows
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Riders by holding a peace march and prayer vigil at the Washington Monument for victims of intolerance. The Freedom Writers Diary has photos of this‚ and I can only imagine what a touching site this must have been. In 1998‚ their senior year‚ Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers won the Spirit of Anne Frank Award. It was extremely special for the Freedom Writers to receive this award as a group‚ since the award is usually given to individuals. The Freedom Writers all traveled to New York for the
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teenage gang members felt that high school was forced education and that they were only in there because the government forced them in there. The movie first portrays the students as kids who don’t know any better than to survive on the streets‚ Erin Gruwell inspired her students to success far greater than any street life can bring. Freedom Writers is historically accurate. (ChasingTheFrog‚ http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/freedomwriters.php) Racial segregation is characterized by boundaries
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out-of-school activities. Are youth respectful of each other’s differences? Are there problems similar to those in Wilson High? If so‚ what steps can you take to initiate change? Ms. Gruwell is the first teacher to show trust and respect for the “at risk” students at Wilson High. How does Erin Gruwell demonstrate this? Why are some students more resistant to trusting each other? Why is trust such an important component of a teacher-student relationship? How do the classmates
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The United States of America was founded on the concept that all men are created equal; however‚ it has taken us until the last fifty years to make significant strides toward equality for many minority groups. Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation‚ African Americans in Southern states still inhabited a vastly unequal world of disenfranchisement‚ segregation and various forms of oppression‚ including race-inspired violence (www.history.com‚ 2015). In 1960‚ the black Americans made
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example of a movie that is filled to the brim with insight and different perceptions of these barriers between people. We follow the story of a teacher‚ Erin Gruwell‚ as she begins her new teaching career in a school that has been introduced to an integration program. The students that occupy the desks in room 203‚ who are disinclined to learn from Gruwell‚ share their stories and how these social constructions shape their lives. Class plays a significant role in every individual’s life. LaGravenese
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California. Erin Gruwell is just starting her first teaching job‚ that as freshman and sophomore English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School‚ which‚ two years earlier‚ implemented a voluntary integration program. For many of the existing teachers‚ the integration has ruined the school‚ whose previously stellar academic standing has been replaced with many students who will be lucky to graduate or even be literate. Despite choosing the school on purpose because of its integration program‚ Erin is unprepared
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Education Perspectives Erin Gruwell‚ first time teacher was assigned to an inner-city high school which had just embarked in the integration system. The students in her English class were pushed through the school system without being expected to learn‚ with the assumption that they are incapable of learning. She struggles to connect with her students‚ to make them believe that they can succeed‚ and to show them that their lives is valuable‚ all while attempting to unite them and to overcome to
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