Idealistic 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.
The first Freedom Writers Noticing the racial conflicts between students, Gruwell adapted her curriculum to focus on tolerance and understanding diversity. She offered students books bought out of her own salary, organised movie watching sessions and inviting relevant guest speakers to class. Ms.
G experienced so much opposition form the other teachers? It's because she used a new method of teaching to all students. And she is new in the school that's why. Her students loved the whole classroom and their classmates as well as Ms.
How do the students in room 203 relate to one another at first? With suspicion they view the world in terms of different races but they begin to realize that they all share similar problems and have gone through rough times. Ms. G looks up lyrics from a rapper named Tupac" and finds lyrics that relate to the students.
Gruwell use strategies to unite her students, first the "line strategies",she divide the class into two then she ask questions to her students about their past experience. Another strategies she used the "Diary" for them to write their inside thoughts or feelings from the past to the present experience. 3.
Gruwell believed that her students could learn some of the most valuable life lessons outside of the classroom. “We went places where the students could experience the lessons of fighting against intolerance firsthand,” she said. “We pushed hard for it and traveled to Auschwitz. We traveled to Sarajevo.
What's the reason the students don't respect Mrs. G at first? They think she's just like the other teachers and is just going to leave them when she can't handle them anymore.
Why did Mrs. Gruwell students hate and resent her at first? - they didn't like the fact that she was white and they feel that she hasn't earned their respect.
While trying to help her students, Gruwell faced other obstacles along the way: teachers and staff, all jealous of her success while working with the "hopeless" students.
Why is trust such an important component of a teacher- student relationship? Trust is important for a teacher and a students relationship because it lets the student know when they need help they have someone to go to.
In the movie Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell encourages her students to reflect on their experiences, while also empowering them to fight for what they believe is right. From the film, we learn how we can all be heroes in our own ways.
How does reading and writing initiate this change? The classmates initially learn to trust each other when they begin to play the Line Game. By playing the Line Game, they realize that they're not in it alone because they share some of the same experiences with one another.
Ms. Gruwell evaluated the potential of her students by making them work together to accomplish an important task.
Freedom Writers delivers the expected messages about hope and the ability to change one's destiny, and does it in a manner that it is emotionally and intellectually satisfying. This isn't a great movie, but it is effective drama where the big emotional scenes more often feel real than contrived.
She was able to change the lives of students and to follow her dreams. Not only did she change lives of many teenagers, she has also inspired many teachers. She was able to provide a path for her students who at first had nowhere to go.
Erin Gruwell to do the sacrifices for her students, such as; she sold bras in the department store to get money to buy the books, asked for permission to visit the museum to study outside the school, got another job again as a hotel concierge to get the money to visit the museum, invited real holocaust survivors to ...
How the Jamal event is relative to her students. Just like the Holocaust, the students live in a world where they believe that if they got rid of all the races and only kept their own , everything would be good. Philosophy of the students and perception of graduation. They see themselves lucky if the live to be 18 and a miracle if they even ...
The reason Eva's father was arrested (according to her) For retaliation and being respected by his people. The reason Erin Gruwell (Ms. G) decide to teach instead of be a lawyer. Court is too late; the real fighting starts in the classroom. Opposition/obstacles Ms. G faces in the beginning.