Erin Gruwell

station and later on that day he is free and tells him he will be adopted by another family. David was more than excited to get away from his mother. According to David, “He compares his life to a piece of wood he sees washed up on the shore.” (Erin Gruwell ENotes Epilogue) He started to take a positive control over his life, and he tries to be the…

According to the book The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell one student says “I’m not afraid of anyone anymore. Now I’m my own gang. I protect myself. I got my own back. I still carry my gun with me just in case I run into some trouble” (14). The issues that the student was dealing with at the time was…

In regards to the film, The Freedom Writers, it took one person, in this case, a teacher, Erin Gruwell, to stand up to the bureaucracy of the school system and provide students with respect, trust and hope. Though others feel students like the one in classroom 203 should be punished than rewarded. The result of punishing them does not work. Multimillionaire…

The Importance of Being Reflective: It is important for teachers to look back and reflect on themselves and their teaching. Reflecting allows one to see where their strengths and weaknesses are. Then you can use what you know to improve and utilize more of what 's working well, and fix or remove what 's not. During the 30 hour practicum, we were expected to record specific information and events. Afterwards, we had to reflect and write what we learnt from those observations. This allowed us to…

the book is about a black society, he assumes she will see it different from the white kids. This is making false assumptions about her experience and also labels her as different. She exhibits a primary deviance as she expresses interest in taking Erin Gruwell’s class instead. While the class is for lower academic standards, her interest is based on noise that is is affecting students positively and she won’t be the lone black kid and isolated in that way in the…

Tomaka 's class some time ago called, "The Freedom Writers". It 's about a teacher named Erin Gruwell, who works at a school plagued with gang activity, racial discrimination, and violence. Because of which, the school faculty decided to give up on their students and let them fall down the wrong paths intentionally. So Gruwell is challenged with gaining her students ' trust on personal and academic levels with little to no support from her professional peers…

The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own?, says Gatto. Teaching is however you make it out to be not what?s stereotyped it to be. Also I would like to randomly like to add an example of the movie ?Freedom Writers? story by Erin Gruwell. Talk about good teachers, teacher that went to any means necessary to see her kids become something in life other than what they had going for themselves before she came. She showed the students that she cared about teaching when no other…

together everyone focus on their own problems. Also the similarity by teachers to Ms. Cambpell the head of the English department who lost the faith into the students and is burned out is a problem in the real teaching world. She gave the advice to Erin Gruwell the new teacher “You can’t make someone want an education. The best you can do is try to get them to obey, to learn discipline. That would be a tremendous accomplishment for them” (Bulman, 2005). After being that long in the school…

In the movie Freedom Writers writing by Erin Gruwell scene “I Hate White people” explains how average high school view their lives in the view of stereotypes. In that scene a Hispanic girl expressed her feelings about how she hates white people because they cannot relate to her and people view white people differently than they view her. The scene shows a kid draws a picture depicting a student with certain features they stereotype this person to look like. The teacher address this picture and…

Contained in the works of "Write and Wrong" by Anna Quindlen, and "Let Teenagers Try Adulthood" by Leon Botstein, the term: at risk, is frequently used for students who are projected not to have a higher educational background. Certain policies are the reason some students have little to no interest in education and eventually become just another statistic. Connie Heerman tried to help her struggling high school students by incorporating a plan similar to the one in "The Freedom Writers" but,…