FREEDOM WRITER SLIDE SHARE

2. SUMMARY:
This Story was all about how the teacher
changed the lives of her students by having the
courage, determination, perseverance and patience.
Erin Gruwell is just starting her first teaching job as a
freshman and sophomore English teacher at Woodrow
Wilson High School, which in just two years earlier the
school implemented a voluntary integration program.
For many of the existing teachers, has ruined the
school, whose previously stellar academic standing
has been replaced with many students who will be
lucky to graduate or even be literate.

3. Despite of choosing the school on purpose
because of its integration program. Erin is unprepared for
the nature of her classroom, whose students live by
generations of strict moral codes of protecting their own at
all cost. Many are in gangs and almost all know somebody
that has been killed by gang violence. The Latinos hate the
Cambodians who hate the blacks and so on.

4. The only person the students
hate more is Ms. Gruwell. It isn't until
Erin holds an unsanctioned discussion
about a recent drive-by shooting death
that she fully begins to understand
what she's up against. And it isn't until
she provides an assignment of writing
a daily journal - which will be not
graded, and will remain unread by her
unless they so choose - that the
students begin to open up to her.

5. As Erin tries harder and harder to have resources
provided to teach properly she seems to face greater
resistance, especially from her colleagues, such as
Margaret Campbell her section head the one who
discourages her that her students from room 203 don’t
have the chance to be a good students and change
for the better, who lives by regulations and sees such
resources as a waste, and Brian Gelford, who will
protect his "priviledged" position of teaching the senior
honors classes at all cost. Erin also finds that her
teaching job is placing a strain on her marriage to
Scott Casey, a man who seems to have lost his own
idealistic way in life.

6. But in behalf of this situations Erin didn’t find it as a main
problem to stop her job as an English Teacher instead she
continue her passion though they separated by her
husband because of this job. Erin handle and embrace her
diverse students. Her students Eva Benitez a girl who is
more resistant to Erin, Andre Bryant learned how to
respect people. Marcus quitting the gang and ends up
moving back to his mom and Jamal Hill thinks that school
is just a waste of time but with Erin’s helped, her
motivations helps the students to changed their views
about going to school and also for there selves until they
achieve the goals of one another because of the help of a
very dedicated and passionate teacher like Mrs.Erin.

7. Personal Insights
As a teacher Mrs. Gruwell helped change each child's
life. The focus on the movie began with her deciding to change
her career choice and become a teacher. Every event that took
place involved her trying to help her students become better and
let them know that they were in the safe environment. She was
the reason why her class had become united and everyone
understood each other and showed respect for each other.
Mrs Gruwell is a daughter, a wife and a teacher. She is a
new teacher in school, which have a racist problem among the
students. For man of the students, Mrs. Gruwell method were
their first experience including detailed stories of abuse, explicit
street language and extreme violence.

8. Aside from the students attitude the scenario of the
school clearly manifest how environment affects
students learning. Majority of the students suffer
from the issues regarding racism and cultural
diversity which sets them apart and made them
involved in serious gang wars. This results in low
classroom performance plus the fact that most
students are not given proper support and attention
by their families. Students are motivated from what
surrounds them. When the learning environment is
full of negative elements, students will loose their
focus and will stop them from achieving their goals.

9. As a young teacher who inspires her class of at-risk students
to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education
beyond high school because of her dedication to help the
students to change not just their attitudes but also to change
there views going to school and also to make there sections
up not just like before that everyone will gonna look down
and make them feel that their not welcome.
A dedicated teacher in a racially divided Los Angeles
school has a class of at-risk teenagers deemed incapable of
learning. Instead of giving up, she inspires her students to
take an interest in their education and planning their future.
She assigns reading material that relates to their lives and
encourages them all to keep journals.
Moral values

10. Erin Gruwell, has chosen to be a teacher over becoming a
juvenile lawyer. Gruwell was from a middle class, Caucasian
background that valued education. She saw education as a means
to a better future. She believed that education was a better path
because by the time adolescents reached the court system, the
youth was already lost.
Gruwell was discouraged from teaching by the Head of the
English Department, the Honors English teacher, her father and
eventually her husband. Even the students were disrespectful and
gave Gruwell little reason to be encouraged. The fights, murders
and gang activity would have disheartened a less courageous or
less determined teacher. Against all odds, Gruwell searches for
ways to get her students to attend her English class and learn. She
wears her string of pearls with pride. Her pearls were a graduation
gift from her father and come to represent Gruwell’s rejection of the
cynical administration, and rebellion against all that have no hope for
her students.

11. Last but not least, the most important moral
values that I has learned is that the student's
motivation. We have to improve our level of motivation
if we want to success in this challenging lives. The
students in "Freedom Writers" have very low
motivation due to their background and the history of
their life. They have no motivation to success, to be a
good person and even they only told their oneself to
take revenge on what they have gone through their
life. The teacher has instilled a motivation to the
students slowly. She motivates the students by talks to
them about the history and emphasis on the
importance of each life and also the importance of
being tolerate plus have a peaceful life.

12. GOD BLESS US ALL !