The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell
by Erin Gruwell Reading level: Adult This book is a compilation of diary entries from 150 high school students in Long Beach, California, who call themselves the Freedom Writers. Their English teacher, Erin Gruwell, discovers that her at-risk students have never heard of the Holocaust. She decides to teach a curriculum of tolerance using books such as Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and The Freedom Writers Diary (20th Anniversary Edition) by The authors’ proceeds from this book will be donated to The Tolerance Education Foundation, an organization set up to pay for the Freedom Writers’ college tuition. Erin Gruwell is now a visiting professor at California State University, Long Beach, where some of her students are Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers Diary: Book Review - NewsBlaze News The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing To Change Themselves and the World around Them. by the Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell. Broadway Books. Paperback, 320 pages, illustrated. ISBN: 0767924908 “It is not what happens to us that matters, but how we deal with it – and the Freedom Writers are a perfect example. www.mikkelkiilerich.dk
Freedom Writers Diary Books As an idealistic English teacher at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. She and her students, using the treasured books Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo as their guides, undertook a life
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 20 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them is a non-fiction 1999 book written by The Freedom Writers, a group of students from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, and their teacher Erin Gruwell. Apr 24, 2007 · The Freedom Writers Diary is an outstanding book about victory and defeat. The book tells the story of a group of students living in a highly segregated neighborhood who decided to change the norm. From building a family from each other to being the first in their family to graduate high school to taking a stand for their rights, the Freedom The Freedom Writers Diary (20th Anniversary Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them by The Freedom Writers , Zlata Filipovic , et al. | Oct 12, 1999 The Freedom Writers Diary is an outstanding book about victory and defeat. The book tells the story of a group of students living in a highly segregated neighborhood who decided to change the norm. From building a family from each other to being the first in their family to graduate high school to taking a stand for their rights, the Freedom
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The day before starting the school year as an English teacher at Wilson High School, Erin Gruwell reflects on the expectations she has of her job. Although Long Beach, where the school is located, has the reputation of being a hot spot for gang- and drug-related violence, Wilson is located in a safe neighborhood, and students who live in the so-called “hood” have to take multiple buses to The authors’ proceeds from this book will be donated to The Tolerance Education Foundation, an organization set up to pay for the Freedom Writers’ college tuition. Erin Gruwell is now a visiting professor at California State University, Long Beach, where some of her students are Freedom Writers.