After watching the film, please post a comment about what you thought of one of the ideas integral (important) to the film. Some suggestions include:
1. Racism
2. The importance of education
3. Loyalty
4. Trust
5. Urban life
6. Change
7. Finding one's voice
Writing project:
Like the students in the film, writing allows us to tell our own stories and find our own voices. By finding our voice as writers, we gain experience and understanding of our own writing and even the world.
Tell your story.
Write a non-fiction draft about a story that happened to you. Pick something that is important to you or something that you need to say. It should be based on your own life, but if you feel the need to, change names and places to protect yourself.
Complete a draft to turn in by Monday, Nov. 3.
17 comments:
The film had many ideas and morals. The diaries that were written informs many people on urban life and how it effects those who have to live that way. There were a lot of racists people throughtout this movie and it is very wrong. This movie has taught me that there ca akways be a change ,ALWAYS.
After watching the film, please post a comment about what you thought of one of the ideas integral (important) to the film. Some suggestions include:
1. Racism
2. The importance of education
3. Loyalty
4. Trust
5. Urban life
6. Change
7. Finding one's voice
My thoughts are that the teacher is not racist. She taught the kids the imprtance of education. Without education you can't really do anything now in days. She taught them about loyalty and trust. She made them realize that even if you live in the hood it doesn't mean that you can't succeed in life and get an education. She really changed the kids in her class and made them find their own voice.
This was a beautiful movie. There were many important ideas in it which include all of the suggestions and more.
1. Racism
2. The importance of education
3. Loyalty
4. Trust
5. Urban life
6. Change
7. Finding one's voice
8. Finding family
9. Rising above limitations
It was a great, touching movie, it made me want to find out more, and read that book that the real class wrote.
I think that finding one's voice was the most important. If you find your voice then all of the other key elements, seem to fall in place.
6. Change
I believe this was one of the most important ideas of the film. I feel this because when the kids came into the class, for the first time, they were all territorial, and belonged to some kind of gang. But through the film, the kids were taught to connect with each other. These kids all made a toast in the class, which showed that they were going to make a change in there life. They all did, but besides that, they all tried to raise money to have a guest speaker for one of there classes, which, to me, shows that they made improvements in their lives.
I thought the most important idea of the film was to show people that they have their own voice and there is someone out there who will listen. It's also telling about the people who put others down because they THINK they know everything about you. It's not right when an adult is telling or implying, that a child/student is incapable of doing something that other, more developed students can do.
Well after watching the movie freedom writiers i can really relate on it like when i was little my mother couldn't take care of me well basically didn't have time for me,but it all matters on how im feeling because i think she did the right thing because she didn't want me around that stuff,but about the movie the teacher cared more about them then there own parents she really had love for them but there was some racism going on as the old lady didn't want her to take care of the kids so they can learn more on things they have missed out on.
I think that the most important theme in this story is racism. This flim shows how racism is still alive to this day. It doesn't matter if it is now ilegal to discriminate, that doesnt stop people's opinions or feelings against other races. I think that racism is a very strong subject and we have a really long way to go before everyone is truely thought as equal.
I loved watching this movie. The way all the students who hated each other and could barely stand to be in the same room as each other came to trust each other as a family was amazing. They all came to feel at home with each other. This was one of the most inpiring things I've ever seen.
I think one of the themes important to the movie was the importance of change. Education and urban life are just one example of how someones life can be changed in a positive way. Before the students could find their voice, they first had to change their ways, beliefs, and even their vision of their own life.
Racism is a very important theme in this movie. The obstacles Ms. G faced were mainly because of racism and unecessary stereotyping, even though in a lot of cases people do fit the stereotypes because its what society expects them to be.
In the movie, trust and change played a large part in the plot. At first, all of the students in the class had only trusted the people who were the same race, leaving the class segragated and at odds with one another. Over time, because of Ms. G's teaching and her unwillengness to give up, everyone in the class had begun to change for the better and united together.
My reaction to the movie was very inspirational. I wanted to cry sometimes because of the events that some of the students had to endure. I am very grateful of my life because I have not had to experience some of the things the students have. I think a major theme of the movie was rascism. Due to rascism, the characters in the story, had to overcome many obstacles.
I think that the two most important ideas that was played out during the movie the most in racism and how some can't be happy and support others when they're doing something noble and good. First of all with racism, the teachers didn't see the minorities as intelligent or capable of learning. They didn't have hope for them and they weren't interested in them at all. The teacher saw potential in them, and she did all she could to help them. Everyone else thought they were stupid or not good enough for books or proper education. Racism was a strong issue in that school and a very important theme in the movie. The next theme that was displayed in the movie was how nobody in the school supported the teacher. They thought she was some new teacher with false hope in these kids. She didn't let the opposition of the rest defeat her and her purpose. She did everything she could to give these kids the education they deserved. She didn't let the fact that the lady and man were hating on her. She didn't let anything stop her and she dedicated her energy, time and money to these kids to help them see that there was a better life than what they were living
I really enjoyed this book. I think the importance of education is important in this film. The teachers at the school believed that the students could not achieve anything. They blamed the students for all the problems the school faced. Ms.Gruwell, the English teacher, believed in them and showed them that they were special and could achieve anything they put their minds to. They saw how Ms.Gruwell saw them as and they worked harder.
Racism-racism was made because people who didn't love themselves debased others for validation using physical features such as skin tone.
Importance of Education-Helps improve and appreciate the quality of human life, work, and art.
THe movie I felt dealt with these subjects the most.
The movie was very informative about the extremes of racism. The kids in the movie didn't like people of other races and were willing to kill them without a reason. All of those kids were raised that way and thats how their family before them acted. They could have liked the people of different races if they gave them a chance but their lifestyle wouldn't let them. It is very sad the extreme effect that racism had on their young life.
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