The film is based on a real story in Woodrow Wilson Classical High School. The teacher Erin Gruwell successfully reformed her students and made them learn much more than things they could learn from school. At the beginning she was very excited about being a teacher.
Though later she realized that her students were not the ones she was expecting, she didn't give them up. They were segregated into racial groups in the classroom. The tension is apparent whenever students from one race look at those from another race. Gruwell also had a hard time with her department head, who told her not to focus on teaching her students to learn and read but to focus on teaching them discipline and obedience.
Once, Gruwell used a racist drawing of one of her students to teach them about the Holocaust. She gradually won their trust and she came up with a way to get to know them more. She bought them composition books to write down their experiences of being abused and seeing their friends die. In order to reform her students, Gruwell took two part-time jobs to pay for more books and spent more time at school.
Once, Gruwell used a racist drawing of one of her students to teach them about the Holocaust. She gradually won their trust and she came up with a way to get to know them more. She bought them composition books to write down their experiences of being abused and seeing their friends die. In order to reform her students, Gruwell took two part-time jobs to pay for more books and spent more time at school.
She also invited several Holocaust survivors to talk with her students about their experiences and took them to the Museum of Tolerance. However, her colleagues and department head disliked her unorthodox teaching.
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it's shown on HBO many times but i never watch it, it's just not my type
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