Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic.Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.Here's a list of books that made a positive impact on the Freedom Writers' lives.
(Side note: All 150 Freedom Writers graduated from high school and went on to college.) Reading List Also, 100 percent of the royalties from the book are used for the Freedom Writers' college tuition. This is why we provide the ebook compilations in this website. It all seems a bit too easy at times, but this was a thoroughly enjoyable read. the-freedom-writers-diary-teacher-s-guide 1/1 Downloaded from on Jby guest THE FREEDOM WRITERS DIARY TEACHER S GUIDE When people should go to the ebook stores, search commencement by shop, shelf by shelf, it is in point of fact problematic. Gruwell, however, especially about the challenges she experienced along the way as her students went from being at-risk to shining stars.
The Freedom Writers' stories are inspirational. to visit they win the Spirit of Anne Frank award and travel to New York City to be interviewed by Connie Chung. Secretary of Education Riley they bring Zlata, whose story touches them, to L.A. Gruwell's classes, the teens become change agents in their community and beyond. The students find hope for their own lives as they learn about other teenagers who have experienced tragedy and hardship. He talks about looking out for guns and gang warfare in his neighborhood and about the friends he's lost. One teenager writes a letter to Zlata and compares the war she lived through in Bosnia to the “undeclared war” in America. She decides to teach a curriculum of tolerance using books such as Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo.Īs the students start to keep their own journals, they find parallels between the characters' lives and their own. They are the subject of the 2019 public television documentary Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart, and the 2007 feature film Freedom Writers, starring Hilary Swank. Their English teacher, Erin Gruwell, discovers that her at-risk students have never heard of the Holocaust. Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers continue to share their stories with students and teachers from around the globe through their nonprofit, the Freedom Writers Foundation. This book is a compilation of diary entries from 150 high school students in Long Beach, California, who call themselves the Freedom Writers.
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