The students are encouraged to see how stereotyping breeds intolerance and they see the parallel between the lives of Anne and Zlata and their own. She and her students begin to read The Diary of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary : A Child's Life In Sarajevo: the opening of these books leads quickly to the opening of her students' minds, and Gruwell leads the class on an intellectual journey that opens their eyes and changes the way in which they think about both themselves and other people. The blank faces staring back at her make her realize that her students have no idea what this actually is. She is angry and tells the class that this is exactly the kind of thing that led to the Holocaust. One afternoon she intercepts a passed note with a racially explicit caricature drawn on it.
Class does not go well nobody pays any attention to what she is teaching.
#Freedom writers book notes full
Still filled with the starry-eyed idealism that had inspired her to become a teacher in the first place, Gruwell finds herself in charge of a room full of kids who have been labelled "un-teachable". We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Įrin Gruwell was only twenty three years old when she became an English teacher at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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