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Designed for educators by the teacher who nurtured and created the
Freedom Writers, this standards-based teachers' guide includes
innovative teaching techniques that will engage, empower, and
enlighten.
In response to thousands of letters and e-mails from teachers
across the country who learned about Erin Gruwell and her amazing
students in "The Freedom Writers Diary, " Erin Gruwell and a team
of teacher experts have written "The Freedom Writers Diary
Teacher's Guide," a book that will encourage teachers and students
to expand the walls of their classrooms and think outside the
box.
Here Gruwell goes in-depth and shares her unconventional but highly
successful educational strategies and techniques (all 150 of her
students who had been deemed "un-teachable" graduated from Wilson
High School): from her very successful "toast for change" (an
exercise in which Gruwell exhorted her students to leave the past
behind and start fresh) to writing exercises that focus on the
importance of journal writing, vocabulary, and more.
In an easy-to-use format with black-and-white illustrations, this
teachers' guide will become the essential go-to manual for teachers
who want to make a difference in their pupils' lives and create
students who will make a difference.
#1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER & NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story
of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.
As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson
High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a
room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. One day she intercepted a
note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this
was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust--only to
be met by uncomprehending looks. So 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-changing, eye-opening, spirit-raising odyssey
against intolerance and misunderstanding. They learned to see the
parallels in these books to their own lives, recording their
thoughts and feelings in diaries and dubbing themselves the
"Freedom Writers" in homage to the civil rights activists "The
Freedom Riders."
With funds raised by a "Read-a-thon for Tolerance," they arranged
for Miep Gies, the courageous Dutch woman who sheltered the Frank
family, to visit them in California, where she declared that Erin
Gruwell's students were "the real heroes." Their efforts have paid
off spectacularly, both in terms of recognition--appearances on
"Prime Time Live" and "All Things Considered," coverage in "People"
magazine, a meeting with U.S. Secretary of Education Richard
Riley--and educationally. All 150 Freedom Writers have graduated
from high school and are now attending college.
With powerful entries from the students' own diaries and a
narrative text by Erin Gruwell, "The Freedom Writers Diary" is an
uplifting, unforgettable example of how hard work, courage, and the
spirit of determination changed the lives of a teacher and her
students.
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.
A high school teacher in Long Beach, California, and participant in
the Freedom Writers Project recounts how her students have helped
her figure out the best ways to work for educational reform and
continually renew her sense of commitment to and compassion for
young people.
""There are lives lost in this book, and there are lives saved,
too, if salvation means a young man or woman begins to feel
deserving of a place on the planet. . . . What could be more
soul-satisfying? These are the most influential professionals most
of us will ever meet. The effects of their work will last forever."
-from the foreword by Anna Quindlen
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Now depicted in a bestselling book and a feature film, the Freedom
Writers phenomenon came about in 1994 when Erin Gruwell stepped
into Room 203 and began her first teaching job out of college. Long
Beach, California, was still reeling from the deadly violence that
erupted during the Rodney King riots, and the kids in Erin's
classroom reflected the anger, resentment, and hopelessness of
their community. Undaunted, Erin fostered an educational philosophy
that valued and promoted diversity, tolerance, and communication,
and in the process, she transformed her students' lives, as well as
her own. Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers went on to establish
the Freedom Writers Foundation to replicate the success of Room 203
and provide all students with hope and opportunities to realize
their academic potential. Since then, the foundation has trained
more than 150 teachers in the United States and Canada.""Teaching
Hope""unites the voices of these Freedom Writer teachers, who share
uplifting, devastating, and poignant stories from their classrooms,
stories that provide insight into the struggles and triumphs of
education in all of its forms.
Mirroring an academic year, these dispatches from the front lines
of education take us from the anticipation of the first day to the
disillusionment, challenges, and triumphs of the school year. These
are the voices of teachers who persevere in the face of
intolerance, rigid administration, and countless other challenges,
and continue to reach out and teach those who are deemed
unteachable. Their stories inspire everyone to make a difference in
the world around them.
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