Freedom Writers Discussion Questions Name ______________________ Why are the students so unwilling to associate with anyone outside their ethnic/racial groups? Where those this intolerance come from? What would you do to break the ethnic and racial barriers in Mrs. Gruwell’s classroom? Think about your own school or 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
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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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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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An Inspiring and Meaningful Movie Freedom Writers Freedom Writers is a drama movie based on the book “The Freedom Writers Diary” written by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell. The movie was first released on January 5th 2007 in the USA‚ and on May 18th 2007 in Norway. The director of the movie is Richard LaGravenese and the screenwriters are the Freedom Writers‚ Erin Gruwell and Richard LaGravenese. The Music is made by Mark Isham‚ will.i.am‚ Talib Kweli and other various artists. The main
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Freedom Writers Essay In the movie‚ The Freedom Writers Mrs. Erin Gruwell (Hillary Swank) plays a role of a dedicated teacher who did all she could‚ to help her students learn to respect themselves and each other. She has little idea of what she’s getting into when she volunteers to be an English teacher at a newly integrated high school in Long Beach‚ California. Her students were divided along racial lines and had few aspirations beyond basic survival. Mrs. Gruwell was faced with a big challenge
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Summary of the Freedom Writers The movie “Freedom Writers” was about Erin Gruwell‚ a young teacher who accepted a position teaching freshman and sophomore English at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach‚ California. Mrs. Gruwell dramatically transformed a chaotic class of hardened inner city youths. This class was consisted of African Americans‚ Latinos‚ Asians‚ Juvenile Delinquents‚ gang members‚ one Caucasian‚ and underprivileged students from poor neighborhoods. At first‚ it was difficult
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Freedom Writer Report Association Teacher used the racist drawing from one of her students and uses the opportune to teach them about the Holocaust showing them they are not alone on losing love ones in wars due racist action and also show them how wars affect others around them. This was very good illustration of functional connection between two or more elements. Emotional History She gradually begins to earn their trust and buys them composition books to record their diaries
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The film Freedom Writers tells a tale of a high school class that broke a cycle of violence and failure in their inner city school. This film is based around the race riots during the early 1990s in Los Angeles. In this film‚ the school is divided by race and clearly
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Freedom Writers Director: Richard LaGravenese Brief outline of story: The storyline of the movie takes place between 1992-1995. Beginning with scenes from the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Hilary Swank plays the role of Erin Gruwell‚ a new‚ excited schoolteacher who leaves the safety of her hometown‚ Newport Beach‚ to teach at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach‚ a formerly high achieving school which has recently had an integration program put in place. Her enthusiasm is quickly challenged
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For 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
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