This is my compare and contrast paper on ¨Freedom writers¨. In the Diary Freedom Writers it talks about the kids lives and what they went threw and their difficulties. At the beginning of the diary it starts talking about Evas father being arrested, because the cops thought he committed a crime because of the drive by that happened in front of Evas house, just like in the movie. As it continues there's a new teacher named Ms. Grewell she is a Freshman and Sophomore teacher she is new to Woodrow Wilson High School. As she stood in her classroom she sees that there's no students there in her class and it's lonely and quiet, she looks around and when she does she hears noises coming from the Hallways she then sees her students being escorted by a security guard. That's when she figured she was going to have a hard time with them. Once they sat down they started being rude to her and making fun of people. One of the student name that was being picked on was Jamal he was being picked on because another student drew a picture of him with big lips. It hurt Jamal and made Ms. Gruwell was upset. So she told them that it wasn't nice of them
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Gruwell talked about how the teachers tried to break her down and wanted her to give up on the students like all the other teachers did, all the teachers gave up on the students and she couldn't because she felt like she was the only hope they had to make it through high school and life. Ms. Gruwell bought books for the students because she felt that the books could relate to their life and would make them want to read because it was relating to their lives and they could also get an education in the same process. Later on in the school year Ms. Gruwell asked the students to write a self-evaluation and asked the students to put a letter grade and one of the students put an “F” and Ms.Gruwell didn’t believe in failure from the student and she confronted the student and made sure the student would never think like that
Gruwell talked about how the teachers tried to break her down and wanted her to give up on the students like all the other teachers did, all the teachers gave up on the students and she couldn't because she felt like she was the only hope they had to make it through high school and life. Ms. Gruwell bought books for the students because she felt that the books could relate to their life and would make them want to read because it was relating to their lives and they could also get an education in the same process. Later on in the school year Ms. Gruwell asked the students to write a self-evaluation and asked the students to put a letter grade and one of the students put an “F” and Ms.Gruwell didn’t believe in failure from the student and she confronted the student and made sure the student would never think like that