to met with the US Secretary of Education. They visit the Holocaust Museum and the Museum of Tolerance. When not one student knew what the Holocaust was, Gruwell immediately changed teaching strategies and eventually began teaching these so-called unteachable students information to which they could relate, presenting titles that teach tolerance such as the Anne Frank's diary, Schindler's List and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo.Īs time goes on, Gruwell uses all the resources at her disposal to make history and literature come alive for these students. After a student created a large lipped caricature of a particularly difficult student named Sharaud, Gruwell pointed out that caricatures were a common tool of the Nazis during the Holocaust. What happened next created a turning point for both teacher and students.
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Although Gruwell stated that she initially (and naively) wanted to ignore skin color and cultural differences while student teaching, she was immediately confronted with both. Throughout the years, the predominately Caucasian population at Wilson has evolved radically to include African Americans, Latinos and Asians who now comprise the bulk of the student body. Gruwell states that every race, religion and culture is represented. This means that wealthy students will attend classes along side poor kids from the projects. Its "safe" location, makes it a desirable educational institution, so much so that many students will take two to three buses just to get to that particular school. Wilson High is located in a so-called "safe" neighborhood in Long Beach, California, just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean.
Not only would she teach on her own, as a teacher with little to no seniority, she was given the "unteachable" students, those who are more concerned with gang activity and matters of "turf," rather than the study of Shakespeare, subjects and predicates. Although she was a student teacher at Wilson High the year before, this year she would teach on her own. Told through anonymous entries to protect their identities and allow for complete candor, The Freedom Writers Diary is filled with astounding vignettes from 150 students who, like civil rights activist Rosa Parks and the Freedom Riders, heard society tell them where to goand refused to listen.Erin Gruwell is a first-year English teacher at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. Inspired by reading The Diary of Anne Frank and meeting Zlata Filipovic (the eleven-year old girl who wrote of her life in Sarajevo during the civil war), the students began a joint diary of their inner-city upbringings.
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Soon, their loyalty towards their teacher and burning enthusiasm to help end violence and intolerance became a force of its own. For many of these studentswhose ranks included substance abusers, gang members, the homeless, and victims of abuseGruwell was the first person to treat them with dignity, to believe in their potential and help them see it themselves. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREShocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance.
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