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“Freedom Writers” is an American film produced in 2007 with Hilary Swank in the part of the young and idealistic high school teacher, Erin Gruwell. The film is based on a true story as it is recounted in the diaries of Miss Gruwell and 150 “unteachable” and “at-risk” students in Long Beach, California.

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The film starts begins with a new, excited schoolteacher, Erin Gruwell who leaves the safety of her hometown to teach at Woodrow Wilson High School. Her eagerness is quickly challenged when she realizes that her classes are all "in- danger” students, also known as "unteachables", and not the eager students she was expecting. Not only does Gruwell meet opposition from her students, but she also has a hard time with her department head, who refuses to let her teach her students with books in case they get damaged and lost, and instead tells her to focus on teaching them discipline and obedience. The students get friendly with the teacher in due course and they call her Ms. G. At the school, Ms. G. interrupts a racist drawing of one of her students and uses it to teach them about the Holocaust. She gradually begins to earn their trust and buys them composition books to record their diaries, in which they talk about anything they want to, their experiences of being abused, seeing their friends die, and being turned out. She was determined to reform her students and therefore she takes two part-time jobs to pay for more books and spends more time at school, to the

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