Erin Gruwell is a new teacher assigned to teach freshman English at a difficult high school made up of underprivileged students from criminal backgrounds. She develops a new curriculum focused on having students write about their lives. She takes the students on a field trip to a Holocaust museum to learn about discrimination and compares it to what the students experience. The students become interested in Anne Frank's story. Erin helps the students understand the Holocaust and makes connections between it and racial discrimination faced by the students and groups like African Americans.

1. English Project 3rd C
FREEDOM WRITERS

2. Freedom writers
Shortly after the Rodney King riots in L.A., new school
teacher Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank) takes on the difficult
freshman class of Wilson High School, made up of
criminals and underprivileged kids that the system has
given up on. The ever-optimistic young teacher comes up
with her own curriculum to try to get the kids to learn
more about themselves and the world around them, she
makes them write about their lives in journals, while
discussing with fellow teachers and the school principal
about her techniques.

3. “Freedom Writers,” a true story about a white teacher (Ms. G) trying
to make a difference in a room full of with black, Latino and Asian
high school freshmen.
In “Freedom Writers” Erin Gruwell, in 1994 was a 23-year-old
student teacher assigned to teach freshman English at Wilson High
School in Long Beach, Calif.
By the time Erin steps into her classroom, the students are
understandably skeptical, contemptuous. From where they sit,
some with their backs literally turned away from the front of the
room, Erin looks like the stranger from Newport Beach.
Among the most important of those stories is that of Eva
Hernandez, whose voice is among the first we hear in the film. Her
father is arrested; she’s initiated into a gang. She hates everyone,
including her white teacher, because no one has ever given her a
reason not to. In time Eva stops hating Erin. It’s a hard journey for
both women.

4. Parts of the film

5. Students become
interested in the Holocaust
because Ms G compares
the kind of discrimination
these kids suffered
(because of their skin
colour or race) and that of
the jewish.

6. The holocaust
There are few periods of time in history that are darker or more shocking than
the Holocaust. And while the majority of people today understand at least
vaguely what the Holocaust was, there are actually a growing number of
younger people that don't fully understand or even know what it involved. Taking
the time to understand the basics of the Holocaust is important, and should
serve as a good jumping off point for understanding more about what happened
during it.

7. The Holocaust is generally thought of as the genocide of
roughly 6 million Jewish people during World War II.
It's important to understand that the genocide of Jews
and others during the Holocaust didn't occur in a short
period. Instead, it was a process that occurred in carefully
planned stages, gradually leading up to the
implementation of the "Final Solution".

8. It began with laws that required Jewish people to be removed from the rest
of the general population. These laws generally forced Jews and black into
ghettos, overcrowded areas of cities that were essentially used as holding
areas.
It was later in the course of WWII that the Nazis set the Final Solution into
motion, and it was then that some of the concentration camps became
extermination camps. The sole purpose of these camps was simply to
execute as many people as possible in as efficient a manner as possible.
Millions died in these death camps, and this is the phase of the Holocaust
that most think of when they think of it.
Simply put, the Holocaust was one of the darkest periods of history, filled
with madness and murder. Remembering it today helps honor those who
perished and also ensures that such a thing won't be repeated as years go
by.

9. Museum Of Tolerance
Ms G takes the students to the museum of Tolerance where they
really learn about the Holocaust. They were reading “Anne
Frank’s” book who was a victim.

13. Martin Luther King JR
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4,
1968) was an American clergyman, activist,
humanitarian, and leader in the African-American
Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role
in the advancement of civil rights using
nonviolent civil disobedience. King has become a
national icon in the history of American
progressivism.
In March 1955, a fifteen-year-old school girl in
Montgomery, Claudette Colvin, refused to give up
her bus seat to a white man in compliance with Jim
Crow laws, laws in the US South that enforced racial
segregation. King was on the committee from the
Birmingham African-American community that
looked into the case.

14. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was
arrested for refusing to give up her
seat. The Montgomery Bus Boycott,
urged and planned by Nixon and led by
King, soon followed. The boycott lasted
for 385 days, and the situation became
so tense that King's house was
bombed. King was arrested during this
campaign, which concluded with a United
States District Court ruling in Browder
v. Gayle that ended racial segregation on
all Montgomery public buses. King's role
in the bus boycott transformed him into
a national figure and the best-known
spokesman of the civil rights movement.
On October 14, 1964, King received
the Nobel Peace Prize for combating
racial inequality through nonviolence.

18. Authors
O Ivancich Mateo
O Di Carlo Ramiro
O Fowler Tomás
O Grosso Ornella
O Lapalma Pilar
O Ferruchi Martina
O Centeno Juan Cruz
O Araoz Santiago
O Huete Manuel