The document provides a cast list for the film Freedom Writers, including Hilary Swank as the lead character Erin Gruwell. It then summarizes the plot of the film in three paragraphs. It describes how Erin Gruwell faces a challenging first day as a teacher at a high school with racially divided students. It outlines how she works to understand her students and have them open up through unconventional teaching methods. It also explains the resistance Gruwell faces from colleagues and the strain it puts on her personal life as she works to support her students.

2. CAST:
• Hilary Swank as Erin Gruwell
• Patrick Dempsey as Scott Casey
• Scott Glenn as Steve Gruwell, Erin's
Father
• Imelda Staunton as Margaret
Campbell
• John Benjamin Hickey as Brian
Gelford
• April Lee Hernández as Eva Benitez
• Mario as Andre Bryant
• Jason Finn as Marcus
• Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Man in Cab #2
• Vanetta Smith as Brandy Ross
• Antonio Garcia as Miguel
• Jaclyn Ngan as Sindy Ngor
• Kristin Herrera as Gloria Munez
• Gabriel Chavarria as Tito
• Hunter Parrish as Ben Samuels
• Giovonnie Samuels as Victoria
• Deance Wyatt as Jamal Hill
• Sergio Montalvo as Alejandro
Santiago
• Robert Wisdom as Dr. Carl Cohn
• Will Morales as Paco
• Ricardo Moline as Eva's Father
• Angela Alvarado as Eva's Mother
• Angela Sargeant as Marcus' Mother
• Pat Carroll as Miep Gies
• Chil Kong as Store Owner
• Armand Jones as Grant Rice

3. Summary:
•The first day of Erin Gruwell as a student teacher inWoodrow
Wilson High School in long beach, California was not necessarily
a welcome dear teacher.
• Ms. Gruwell received a class fragmentized as into small
islands.There were several groups divided by racial and ethnic
matters. Latinos, niggers, eastern immigrants and a little white
people.
• Ms. Gruwell received a class fragmentized as into small
islands.There were several groups divided by racial and ethnic
matters. Latinos, niggers, eastern immigrants and a little white
people.
• Gruwell entered into the class 203 inWoodrow school as a just
graduated teacher looking for experience and on the end of the
day after being mocked, scorned and threatened by her students,
she return home with two choices in mind.

4. • . Many are in gangs and almost all know somebody that has
been killed by gang violence. The Latinos hate the Cambodians
who hate the blacks and so on. The only person the students
hate more is Ms. Gruwell. It isn't until Erin holds an
unsanctioned discussion about a recent drive-by shooting death
that she fully begins to understand what she's up against. And it
isn't until she provides an assignment of writing a daily journal -
which will be not graded, and will remain unread by her unless
they so choose - that the students begin to open up to her.
• . As Erin tries harder and harder to have resources provided to
teach properly (which often results in her needing to pay for
them herself through working second and third jobs), she seems
to face greater resistance, especially from her colleagues, such
as Margaret Campbell, her section head, who lives by
regulations and sees such resources as a waste, and Brian
Gelford, who will protect his "priviledged" position of teaching
the senior honors classes at all cost. Erin also finds that her
teaching job is placing a strain on her marriage to Scott Casey, a

5. EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS
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Teach
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Motivate
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Create
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Build
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Validate
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Believe
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Encourag
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Expect
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8. Moral values that I have learned in the Freedom Writers movie is if you try your best, you
can achieve what you are aiming for. It is different because it is real. Erin Gruwell teaches them to be
real, to be honest, and to be themselves. From the movie, one learns that she started her effort to
reach out to the students, including working a second job, when she was still a student
teacher. Moral values that I have learned in the Freedom Writers movie is if you try your best, you
can achieve what you are aiming for. It is different because it is real. Erin Gruwell teaches them to be
real, to be honest, and to be themselves. From the movie, one learns that she started her effort to
reach out to the students, including working a second job, when she was still a student teacher.
Other than that, the other moral values that I have learned is we have to respect our
teachers while they are teaching. As we can see in the movie, the students have not pay attention
while the teacher was teaching. One situation happened where a student has drew a picture of a
person and pass it over around the floor and they have laughed, until the teacher realized on what
has happened. The teacher has managed to control the situation where she told the student who
drew the picture to make some drawings on the boa rd because that student might have a good talent
in drawings. This is how that I think a teacher should do in order to make students feel ashamed on
what they did.
Last but not least, the other important moral values that I has learned is the student's
motivation. We have to improve our level of motivation. We have to improve our level of motivation if
we want to success in this challenging lives. The students in "Freedom Writers" have very low
motivation due to their background and the history of their life. They have no motivation to success, to
be a good person and even they only told their oneself to take revenge on what they have gone
through their life. The teacher has instilled a motivation to the students slowly. She motivates the
students by talks to them about the history and emphasis on the importance of each life and also the
importance of being tolerate plus have a peaceful life.