Erin Gruwell

Marcus: No, that don't fly Ma. Erin Gruwell: First of all I'm not anybody's mother. Andre: No, that's not what it means. Eva: It's a sign of respect... for you. All of Ms. Gruwell students show respect her because she was the only person every in there life to support them and show that education is the key to be succeed in life. IN the Yosso text and the freedom writers there where some kind of support that help the children’s out in order to succeed. With anyone support you then you can…

behind” by Joanne Lourier, the readers encounter a teacher named Erin Gruwell who works with the “unteachable”. In the last article, “Ex-Marine” by Sue Chastain, the readers, come upon a teacher named LouAnne Johnson who works with neurotic students. By comparing and contrasting Mr. Ross, Ms. Johnson, and Ms. Gruwell teaching style, we can evaluate the effectiveness in terms of the student interest and motivation. In the…

new teaching methods that are useful for gaining knowledge into the minds of the students. Mrs. Gruwell utilizes the assignment of having her students write in a daily journal to learn about their lives, fears, thoughts, and personal journeys (Freedom Writers). This action helps her understand the struggles her pupils face on an everyday basis. The journal assignment draws a line of trust between Erin and her students. The movie clearly portrays that a teacher-student relationship is an…

Erin Gruwell was able to break barriers in her classroom for her students in room 203. First, Ms. Gruwell had the students play a game of similarities where they stepped up to a piece of tape in the middle of the classroom when she gave statement of life experiences. Many of the students in Ms. Gruwell’s classroom experience loss of a family member, friend, etc., exposed to violence at a young age, was involved in criminal activates, and other life experiences of loss and grief. Ms. Gruwell…

depicts the lives of young teenagers and a teacher with a unique teaching method. Based on a true past event, teacher Erin Gruwell started her first year of teaching at Woodrow Wilson High School. Even though she was informed of the integration program, she was well unprepared for the characteristics of the children and her new learning environment within her classroom, 203. Erin went to great lengths to establish change throughout the film, showing us an individual can construct a change in…

teacher named Erin Gruwell sets out to make a difference in her classroom at a recently integrated high school. At first she struggles to teach her students, but as she gets to know them better and obtain the trust of her students, by understanding their story, she begins to move them in a positive direction. Throughout the movie, and in a few specific scenes, various racial and ethnic groups, and prejudices are seen. As a new teacher, and a new teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School, Erin…

diversity and partitioned setting of a typical urban schooling system. The schools are filled with at-risk teenagers who are deemed incapable of learning. Going down their current path, these students are on their way of dropping out of school. Erin Gruwell, a new incoming teacher, inspires her students to take an interest…

story about the students of classroom 203 and how a new English teacher, Erin Gruwell, changed their lives writing. Many of the students in the classroom attended Woodrow Wilson High School as a result of the voluntary integration program issued by the superintendent. Most of these students had rough upbringings to say the least. They were enslaved by the gang life, crime, abusive homes, and social injustice. Until Gruwell gave these students some hope for freedom, these students had no room to…

(“Freedom Writers”). It is about a teacher named Erin Gruwell, who was played by Hillary Swank, who gets her first job at a school called Woodrow Wilson High School. In the previous years, the school flourished in academics but because of an integration program that was implemented, the academic reputation of the school was extremely low. Mrs. Gruwell was in charge of the freshmen and sophomores english classes in the school. During her first year, Mrs. Gruwell had difficulties with the…

The movie I chose to analyze this week is The Freedom Writers, and I rented the movie online through Amazon Video. The movie and true story, The Freedom Writers, is about a White high school English teacher named Erin Gruwell who is a new teacher at Woodrow Wilson High school, a low performing and troubled school in Long Beach, California. The story is told in 1994, only two years after the civil unrest and race war after the 1992. Los Angeles riots. Her English class is filled with all minority…