about another person we don’t get along with so that by the end of the project the two could maybe see eye to eye and get along. 4. Ms.Gruwell is the first teacher to show trust and respect for the “at rick” students at Wilson High. How does Erin Gruwell demonstrate this? Why are some students more resistant to trusting each other She listens to them‚ buys them books and treats them like people‚ this is how she shows trust and respect for the students. Some students are more resistant because
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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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Therapy Association. American Music Therapy Association‚ 2006.Web. Dahlgren Daigneult‚ Susan and Dorothy Tysse Breen. “The use of play therapy with adoloescents in high school.” International Journal of Play Therapy‚ 7.1‚ 1998: 25-47. Print Gruwell‚ Erin and The Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers Diary. New York: Broadway Books‚ 1999. Print Lefevre‚ Michelle. “Playing with sound: The therapeutic use of music in direct work with children.” Child and Family Social Work 2004: 9‚ 333-345. Print
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LGL – 101 Fundamentals of Law American Government ERIN BROCKOVICH In the movie‚ Erin Brockovich is a very strong‚ provocative and gutsy divorced woman. She is a mother trying to support her three beautiful children. She finds herself involved in a motor vehicle accident and through a referral meets Ed Masry a partner of the law firm Masry & Vititoe. Brockovich had serious injuries from the accident and therefore sued the person responsible for crashing into her vehicle. Mr. Masry represented
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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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The ability to write down one’s emotions and thoughts enables individuals to undergo a catharsis of sorts when under duress. Fundamentally‚ a diary‚ or journal‚ is a permanent personal record that is kept of events‚ thoughts‚ and ideas associated with an individual. They retain great significance in an individual’s life‚ and hold a great deal of sentimental value. The Diary of a Young girl (1952) written by Anne Frank and the film‚ Freedom Writers (2007) directed by Richard LaGravenese‚ explore this
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Freedom Writers Task 1: The Narrative Elements Characterisation Erin Gruwell- Erin Gruwell was a young English teacher in a school in Long Beach‚ California she is a passionate teacher who gives up at nothing to help and teach her students Eva and Sindy – They both hate each other as they come from different gangs‚ but when it comes down to it they are extremely similar and have been through the same sort of situations as shown in the scene where they are both are getting ready to go out. Setting
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Popular culture is often characterised by feature films and television serials which target a broad audience in an effort to systematically convey social commentary through inviting the perception of the viewer to interpret representations of everyday roles. This concept is central to ’Reel to real: Popular culture and teacher identity’‚ in which Mitchell and Weber (1999) encourage their audience to challenge the status quo of the teacher role as commonly perceived by society. Particularly‚ the text
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mandatory under law‚ and enforced by parole officers. “Nobody cares what I do‚ why should I bother coming to school.” (Tito‚ a student of Mrs.Gruwell) This quote shows that the students could care less about school and that they had no respect for Mrs. Gruwell or her authority as a teacher. They express that nobody cares about them in life‚ so why should they care about themselves. The student give up on their own lives because they have never had anyone encourage and believe in them. “At sixteen‚ I’ve
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a movie directed by Richard LaGravenese based on teacher Erin Gruwell’s book The Freedom Writer’s Diary; The Sneetches - a classic children’s book by Dr Seuss; The Power of One - a movie directed by John Avildsen based on Bryce Courtenay’s popular novel of the same name; and The Wave - a young adult novel written by Todd Strasser who is also known by his pen name - Morton Rhue. At the beginning of the film Freedom Writers‚ Ms Gruwell is attempting to teach her first English class‚ Room 203
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