![]() ![]() ![]() Would you rather wallow in depression because you are going through a life-changing mess or would you rather change the way you respond to that mess? I like to believe that I'm the only person who can control my life - of course there's the butterfly effect and then there is the case where someone else's actions can affect what happens to you, but they are usually single events, and most times, one can always decide one's reactions to such events. The movie was everything about changing your destiny, and all through my life, I've never tolerated the 'fate' and 'destiny' philosophies that anyone dished out to me. Who doesn't love a rebel? And I mean a good rebel - someone who succeeds in something when everyone else expected him/her to fail. I didn't have too many expectations from it, but by the end of the movie, I loved it. At that point, I wasn't too keen on reading the book, but when I saw the movie pop up in my Netflix recommendations list, I decided to check it out. I first heard of this book in Sheila's blog when she reviewed this during the Banned Books week last year. Someone else said, "She'll only last a day." "These kids are going to make this lady quit the first week," my friends were saying. The Freedom Writers Diary remains a vital read for anyone who believes in second chances.I'm sure one of these days she's going to go to principal and ask for her leave, but then again, what else is new? And now, with this twentieth-anniversary edition, readers are brought up to date on the lives of the Freedom Writers, as they blend indispensable takes on social issues with uplifting stories of attending college-and watch their own children follow in their footsteps. In the two decades since its original publication, the book has sold more than one million copies and inspired a major motion picture Freedom Writers. Her students began recording their thoughts and feelings in their own diaries, eventually dubbing themselves the “Freedom Writers.”Ĭonsisting of powerful entries from the students’ diaries and narrative text by Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary is an unforgettable story of how hard work, courage, and determination changed the lives of a teacher and her students. So she rebooted her entire curriculum, using treasured books such as Anne Frank’s diary as her guide to combat intolerance and misunderstanding. She was met by uncomprehending looks-none of her students had heard of one of the defining moments of the twentieth century. She had intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust. ![]() In 1994, an idealistic first-year teacher in Long Beach, California, named Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students. Now a public television documentary, Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic story of an incredible group of students and the teacher who inspired them, featuring updates on the students’ lives, new journal entries, and an introduction by Erin Gruwell. ![]()
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