![]() Erin then makes the connection between the drawing she holds in her hand and the cartoons used for anti-semitic propaganda leading up to the Holocaust - which only one student in the class had even heard of. Depicted in the cartoon is a hand drawn caricature of a black man with exaggerated thick lips. The opportunity presents itself in the form of a cartoon she confiscates from one of the students in class. Instead, she searches for ways to appeal to them. Passionate about teaching and determined to make a difference, she isn't easily deterred by her students' angry outbursts and a general lack of interest in learning anything she's so earnestly trying to teach them. Erin is a novice high school teacher whose first assignment is teaching freshman English to a class of angry and disinterested white, black, Latino and Asian students in Long Beach, California after the Rodney King riots in 1992. The movie "Freedom Writers" is based on the true story of Erin Gruwell, played by Academy Award winner Hilary Swank. And though Anne Frank perished, the diary that she left behind lives on, and continues to powerfully impact the lives of others. Yet her diary revealed a sense of optimism for a better future, a lack of fear, and hopefulness that against all odds they would survive. Here was a young Jewish girl, hiding from the Gestapo with her family in a secret apartment in Amsterdam looking at an uncertain survival. There are some parts that the students put so much detail in their entree that really puts an image in your head what they had to go through.When The Diary of Anne Frank was first made public almost 50 years ago, she came to signify the tragic heroes who survived the Holocaust, although she was certainly more heroine than tragic. ![]() In the book it has every entree of all 150 students, which was the best part of reading it for me, just by reading every different entree made me see what they went through and how every story was different. Later on she was called back in to see what they could do and she got her students for their junior and senior year. Gruwell asked to go with the students to their junior year of high school, but got denied. They had a strong bond that they didnt want to be broken, Mrs. As the school year went on she began to grow on her students. First she started with a book that she felt that the class would relate to, second she raised enough money to get the class to go on a field trip and eat at the Marriott hotel that she works at part time. She decided to get two side jobs to help pay for the things that she needed. Noticing that each student was going through some type of hard ship she decided to get them interested in things they would like. To getting called to court for their friends murder investigation, to getting evicted from their own home. In the diaries each student has their own scary, mature, and secret life. She works her way by telling the students to write in a diary, so they can all tell their own story. ![]() They all murmur and whisper to each other saying that she will only last a month. There are many kids in her class that do not like Erin Gruwell on her first day. In The Freedom Writers Diary, one teacher is challenged to take on the students that other teachers just do not want to teach. ![]()
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