Freedom Writers

The Smart Trial Debate Judge Glassford sits at the head of the classroom as students take each other on in a debate that questions the innocence or guilt of Pamela Smart in the conspiracy to murder her husband Gregory Smart. The students in the English 151-38 class had been divided into two groups: Prosecution (Affirmative of Pamela Smart’s guilt) vs. Defense (Negative- Pamela Smart is innocent), prior to this eventful day. During the debate, both sides provided valid evidence for their…

In 1968, after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr Jane Elliot a third-grade teacher performed an experiment with her students about racism. In the video, fourteen years later her former students who were in her third-grade class come back and watch the video to watch how she taught them about discrimination in a distinctive way. This experiment was conducted in two days on her third-grade students. In her experiment, she on one day made one group of her students the blue eyes superior…

Many people say that a person’s Hebrew name is her true essence and that if a person’s name is biblical, she has a piece of that person’s neshamah in her. My Hebrew name is Miriam, deriving from Moshe Rabeinu’s sister. During the Jewish Exodus from Egypt the Jewish nation had reached the Red Sea and were seemingly trapped by water in front of them as a horde of enraged Egyptians hunted down the fugitives. The only person who had enough faith to continue on with the journey was Nachshon ben…

Have you ever had a recurring symbol in your life? Well Melinda Sordino has one and that is the tree.In Laurie Halse Anderson’s speak, she uses a tree to symbolize growth. The tree allows her to be creative. It represents her emotions and relationships. And connects to her self improvement and mental health. Like a tree's leaves grow so do her emotions.Her emotions fluctuate from highs to lows throughout the story. When Melinda is in her home, she is depressed because her family fights often…

1960’s during the civil rights movement. It is about a smart, southern girl named Skeeter, who everyone just so happen to adore. She just returned from college and decided to move back home in Mississippi. Skeeter then decides to be a writer. Not just any writer, but a writer that interviews black women who have spent their whole lives taking care of prominent southern families. She starts of with one lady named Aibileen, who opens up to her about the hard times and things she has been through…

Movies like Soul Surfer, The Help, and Cinderella Man are empowering movies. Among that list of films is The Freedom Writers, directed by Richard LaGravenese, was produced in 2007 (IMDb). The movie is a true story about a teacher who invests herself into the class of room 203. Erin Gruwell, the teacher of room 203, expects teaching to be a piece of cake, but on her first day she realizes it would be anything but. Her students are hostile towards each other and intentionally separate themselves…

Getting an education is very important in life. Being well educated helps give people opportunities as to what they want to do in their life. By going to school, people are preparing themselves to have a successful future, but in the movie Freedom Writers, students struggle to gain an education because of all the gang violence that surrounds them. Everyday, when they walk outside of their homes, they fear what may happen. To these individuals it is hard to care about learning when the violence…

Freedom Writers is a 2007 film based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by a teacher named Erin Gruwell. The story was based on Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California. In the beginning of the film, it showed violence between the law enforcement and protestors. A protestor was holding up a sign that said “No Justice. No Peace.” in Los Angeles, California in 1992. The film continued to show facts such as over 120 murders in Long Beach in the months following the…

The story The Freedom Writers follows the story of an English class lead by a teacher called Ms.Gruwell. The book follows the lives of the students in her class by their diary entries Ms.Gruwell allows them to do. The book takes us through relationships each student has with drugs, gangs, race and problems with their families at home. The book gives talks about the journey of at the class all way through the junior year when they wrote the book. The Freedom Writers story is also told with a…

search for a good move on Netflix. As I began my search through the drama options I ran across the movie “Freedom Writers.” I was introduced to this movie during my freshman year at Prairie View A&M. It was a boring weekend on campus, and none of my friends were leaving to go back to their home towns so we decided to go to the theater on campus, that particular day they were playing “Freedom Writers,” and since none of us had ever watched it we decided to stay. Even though this is not my…