themselves(Adams, 2013). Through her innovative teaching style she was able to communicate to her students by reading them stories about hardships that they could relate to. As time went on her students slowly started embracing her and together wrote The Freedom Writers Diary; which included the inspiring stories in her student’s journals, from their hard upbringings to their everyday struggles and how they were able to stay strong through it all. I chose Erin Gruwell as my leader to showcase someone with such
knowledge of not only a classroom education, but also an education of the world we live in. Education is a gateway to a positive future and a successful life. According to George Washington Carver, “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” Education is not a gift; it is a process that takes dedication and hard work in order to achieve the most positive outcome. Without education, many things cannot be accomplished; and many positive aspects of ones life could be missing. A beneficial
but, also in the communities where such interactions and ideals may be more concealed or masked as average. Injustice and being caught up in futile disputes leaves marks on those who experience such issues in any form. In The Freedom Writers Diary by the Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell, these ideas are brought to the attention of the reader, eliciting the same
Erin Gruwell once said, “Be the kind of people that have enough passion to change the world. If we let ourselves be fire, thunder, or lightning, we could alter everything.” This quote taken from “Teach With Your Heart” was directed towards the students of class 203, but to me it describes my personal teaching philosophy perfectly. I believe that every one of my students will be capable of reaching great heights in life if I am the fire under them. It will be my job, as their teacher, to motivate
between humans. Erin Gruwell was optimistic about teaching a class of so many different backgrounds but it was much more challenging to get through to such angry teenagers. Racial conflicts in America include gang violence, and even murder. The Freedom Writers movie gives a clear description of the life that every teenager has to go through while there are racial conflicts. In that environment, teenagers struggle to live through a single day having to deal with the fear of getting hurt even inside their
This past week I watched the movie Stand and Deliver. It has many similarities as Freedom Writers; however, it is not as well known. Stand and Deliver, a true story, follows the account of Jaime A. Escalante. Escalante is a new teacher at James A. Garfield High School who is determined to change the education system and challenge his students. The school’s students primarily come from lower to middle class families who are well below their expected grade level in academics and social standing. Being
Majoritarian is a person who is governed by or believing in a decision by a majority. White privilege tells their own story to benefit them. In the movie, “Freedom Writer’s” a teacher named Erin Gruwell, becomes a first-year teacher at a diverse school. She begins to teach freshman and sophomore level English classes with most of her students only being able to read at a fifth- grade reading level. Many of her students are on probation. Mrs. Gruwell wants to change all of her students for better
The aim of this assignment is to present an exploration and explanation of the process of transformation in and through education. This will be shown by looking at some scenes from the films, Freedom Writers and To Sir with Love. To begin with I want to consider what we understand by ‘education’ Education is an activity we all feel that we know something about, having had personal and direct experience of it. Education has become a large industry employing many hundreds of thousands of people in
shouldn't they follow their footsteps? In today’s society the lack of parenthood is an ongoing cycle that needs to stop. Raising about the influence will lead many generations to achieve impressive accomplishments. Works Cited The Freedom Writers Diary. New York: Broadway /New York $c1999., 1999. Print. Parke, Ross D. "Effects of Parental Incarceration on Young Children." From Prison to Home: The Effect of Incarceration and Reentry on Children, Families, and Communities. University
True freedom is about being accepted. This is especially true in the short story, The Strangers That Came to Town by Ambrose Flack as it further proves that freedom because it allows the individual to fully express themselves without retribution. It shows that true freedom is about being accepted. In this story, the Duvitch family is placed in a community where they struggle with acceptance and freedom and this was shown through three major characters: Mr. Duvitch, Mrs. Duvitch and the Duvitch children
When Mrs. Gruwell first arrives at Woodrow Wilson High School, she does not know what to expect. She teaches a freshman English class with students separated into their own racial groups. It is very challenging for Mrs. Gruwell to teach her students because they refuse to work hard, and they are not united together as a classroom. Mrs. Gruwell unites her students by making them read books that relate to their life. Mrs. Gruwell assigns Durango Street, The Diary of Anne Frank, and 12 Angry Men to
The movie I will reference for this assignment is Freedom Writers. Freedom Writers was directed by Richard LaGravenese, and release January 2007. Many of the concepts that we discussed in class could be seen throughout this film. I would have to say that the most prevalent theories were constructivism, social cognitive, and motivation. We discussed that a successful classroom will incorporate more than one theory, I believed that Ms. Gruwell implementation of more than one theory helped with her
2007 drama film, Freedom Writers, directed and written by Richard LaGravenese (whose previous screenplays include The Fisher King and The Bridges of Madison County) starring Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton and Patrick Dempsey. It is based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell (teacher by profession) who wrote the story based on Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California. Hilary Swank stars in this enthralling movie of ghetto kids raised on street corners
school while in the poem, the boy and his father are advancing through life. In ‘Freedom Writers’, the kids do not want an education because they feel it is irrelevant in their lives. They think that surviving until 18 years of age is an achievement. Their change of perspective is related to school and their lives. This is different from the poem in which the change of perspective is about the boy’s father. In ‘Freedom Writers’, the teacher brought about the kids’ change of perspectives, so it was induced
Violence and Love In the movie Freedom Writers, what impressed me most is that those nonwhite kids seems to have inherent hatred towards other color people and what they choose to do to “deal” with those problems caused by racial discrimination, is violence----fight with fists or even guns. But is it right for those nonwhite kids to use violent ways to fight for respects or deal with bias problems? In my posture, it’s definitely not! On one hand, those immature kids lack of objective judgment, so
closer to each other and let them treat each other like family mumbers. If teacher and students have trust to each other, they will open their minds and welcome others to come in. Just like movie Freedom Writer, Ms. Gruwell is the best example that makes her class to be a big family. In movie Freedom Writer , when Ms. Gruwell first came in her class to face students,she found her students
The Hate List is a thrilling fictional novel that deals with a conflict that our country deals with everyday. The novel starts out with news reporters on television explaining what has happened at Garvin High school. A school shooting occurred by one of the students, Nick. Valerie, Nick’s girlfriend was targeted for the open fire occurring. The reason for this is because the victims of the shooting were all people Valerie disliked. Nick wanted to protect Valerie and act like a tough boyfriend until
Matthew W. Hughey, the author of “The Savior Trope and the Modern Meanings of Whiteness”, argues that the cinema has always been catered toward an ideology of the white supremacy. Likewise, Freedom Writers (2007) self-evidently appear as a majoritarian narrative by having Hilary Swank starring as Erin Gruwell who play as the enthusiastic white female teacher who help change the lives of the students of color. However, along the movie there is a subtle switch of importance from the teacher to these
grades. What would this situation be like? The movie Freedom Writers vividly showed these circumstances. This movie is taken place in 1994, and the majority parts of the story are nonfictions. Director Richard LaGravenese has successfully narrated a story about a teacher who is trying to change racism. Freedom Writers shows that a caring teacher and shared experiences can change stereotypes, inequality, and intolerance. First of all, in Freedom Writers, the high school student stereotypes’ issue is very
John Green, a well-known American author, vlogger, actor, and editor, once said, “That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.” Everyone is born different, but there are always those people who just look better than others, or in other words, more popular, and most people just try to hang out with them. However, there are also people like John Green who do not care