THE FREEDOM WRITERS DIARY
If you want to watch a very good movie you must rent Freedom Writers. Patrick Dempsey (grey's anatomy) and Hillary Swank play in it. I watched it very early this morning..I am thinking of watching it again today...
The movie is based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary. A book I must find!!! The movie is a story of inner-city kids raised on drive-by shootings and hard-core attitude...and a teacher who gives them the one thing they need most: a voice of their own. Teacher Erin Gruwell fights an uncaring school system in the fight to make the classroom "matter" in her students' lives. As they tell their own stories and hear the stories of others a group of supposedly "unteachable" teens discovered the power of tolerance and reclaim their shattered lives and change the world.
I think it is amazing. I am so touched that Erin Gruwell actually "taught" her students. Something I truly feel that many teachers do not do. She could see that the ways she was taught to teach kids would not work with every student. She adjusted her teaching skills into a form that she knew they would understand...that is caring, that is teaching. I feel that teachers have to do more than just lecture, give out tests and take attendance. They MUST have a heart...the first in many more things I think they should have...see the movie or read the book to understand. Keep your negative comments to your self about MO, thanks! (as mentioned before if you don't like what you read, what I write..TOO BAD this is not your blog, not your life, not your thoughts, not your anything! So don't go bashing me for expressing my thoughts and opinions, kwim)
It really touched my heart. I have worked with some kids that would fit perfectly in this movie. Some I have been able to get through to..others not. It is the others that rip my heart out because I feel I did not do my job right. I give my heart and soul to every..and I mean EVERY kid that I work with. When they succeed I succeed. I have some stories I could tell....but won't just now.
Erin found herself in her first teaching job. In a world she knew little of. But was quick to understand. In room 203 kids were taught about tolerance. Many of the est 150 students she taught for their freshman-senior year were the first in their families..first in generations to graduate high school.
Check out these sites:
http://www.freedomwriters.com/the-freedom-writers-diary.html
http://www.freedomwritersfoundation.org/site/c.kqIXL2PFJtH/b.2259975/k.BF19/Home.htm
http://www.freedomwritersfoundation.org/atf/cf/{54DFEA61-B648-4A02-9C8D-C0B5D23FA780}/FREEDOM%20WRITERS%20DIARY%20SUMMARY.PDF
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