Erin Gruwell

personal experiences with the discriminations, gang violence and war they face. Gruwell only taught freshmen and sophomore years but with her love of teaching and determination, she managed to help all students achieve the proper academic level and unite them as a family. She made an impact so big the board of education granted permission for Gruwell to become their junior and senior English teacher. With no doubt, Gruwell became more than just a teacher to them, and every single student from…

based off of a true story and the teacher (Erin Gruwell) does many great things for her students. For instance, she inspires them, uses many teaching strategies and goes above and beyond to ensure her students success. Erin Gruwell inspires her students to realize there is more to life than gangs and they all of them has the option to graduate and go to college. She does this by asking questions and even relating gangs to the Nazi and the Holocaust. Next, Gruwell uses many teaching strategies;…

a dedicated and idealistic teacher, Erin Gruwell. Ms Gruwell inspires and teaches her class of belligerent and aggressive students, that there is another life outside of gang violence and death. The students are divided into groups based on racial backgrounds, whom all believe that they have no future. Thus, hatred was part of their everyday life at the beginning of the movie. However, this was changed through the unconventional teaching methods of Ms Gruwell as she eventually shows them to…

Writers”). Freedom Writers was directed by Richard LaGravenese. Erin Gruwell, played by Hilary Swank, is a new teacher to Woodrow Wilson Classical High School and is completely unprepared for the classroom (“Freedom Writers”). Hilary Swank adapts to the students and puts them first with all their problems in life. While trying to gain their respect, she tries to get the students more involved with school and to work hard in life. Erin demotes her everything to the students in order for them to…

Critical Theory, while optimistic, is an extremist way to deal with comprehension and endeavoring to change the social imbalances that exist. Critical Theorist are not reluctant to get their hands filthy, much like instructor Erin Gruwell in the motion picture Freedom Writers. In light of a genuine story, the motion picture demonstrates the excursion of a youthful educator as she endeavors to inspire a gathering of students who have been marked "at-hazard." These students originate from an…

They motivate their students to do their best and get a good result of their efforts, which is very important in their path to success. As we see, using proper techniques by teachers have positive impacts on students’ education. Jaime Escalante, Erin Gruwell, Roy Sunada, Carla Dicson, and Majid Kaboli are live example of influential teachers that their teaching techniques changed their students’ life. Without these teachers help, their students couldn’t finish their…

at in real life, but instead a self-segregating class filled with “at risk” students that have no desire to be there. This is exactly what happened to Erin Gruwell, played by actress Hilary Swank, the teacher who wrote The Freedom Writers Diary, which then inspired the film The Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers is set at Woodrow Wilson…

students because they felt it was useless. As a new teacher comes along (Ms. Gruwell), she proved everyone wrong and she gave every student in her classroom hope and dreams to achieve success in their lives. The Freedom Writers started in1994 in California of Long Beach. An astonishing teacher named Ms. Gruwell had just started…

1. Counting By 7's takes place in various settings. One of the many settings is Willow Chance's “single-story, stucco house in a development at the end of San Joaquin Valley” where both Willow and her parents (Roberta and James Chance) lived, up until the accident. After the accident Willow is taken to another important setting which is a Nail Salon called “Happy Polish Nails” where Pattie Nguyen works. The third setting takes place at a Garage, near “Happy Polish Nails”. This is where Pattie,…

In the film Freedom Writers, a high school teacher, Erin Gruwell, helps her students overcome their violent environment. Her students, conditioned by gang violence and racial segregation, are reluctant to interact with one another and have a limited outlook on life. But, by having them write journals, she makes them set aside their differences and realise that there is more to life than what they have experienced throughout their short lives. Perceptual errors negatively affect the student’s…