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Why Is Erin's Teaching Useful For The Students?

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Is Erin’s Teaching Useful for the Students?
The Freedom Writers Diary is a true story which is amazing and shows courage, love and change. It was made up of journals that Erin Gruwell told her students to write in about the troubles of their past, present and future. It starts in the fall of 1994, in class room 203 at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. Erin Gruwell, the freshman teacher, met her first group of students who were called be “unteachable and at risk” 1. Students in Room 203 are separated into several groups. They often shout each other even fight without any respect. Erin Gruwell is a crusading young woman. She believes the way to stop racial hatred is to influence young minds. She doesn’t have any teaching experience but love to the students. Erin tries to move the students by various means that can make them realize they are same …show more content…

Erin’s father was a civil rights activist. However, his enthusiasm was gone as time goes on. When Erin tries her best to change the students, her father’s enthusiasm is woken up. Opposite to Erin’s husband, her father supports her and helps lead students to go for an outing. Gradually the students in Room 203 become a family step by step. Finally, even the magazine Celebrity reports their changes twice as a special in reality. Afterwards Erin founds funds of Freedom Writers and becomes a professor of California University. Their efforts have paid off spectacularly, both in terms of recognition—appearances on “Prime Time Live” and “All Things Considered,” coverage in People magazine, a meeting with U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley—and educationally. All 150 Freedom Writers have graduated from high school and many are now attending college.4 It is the changes starting from individual to whole society which is useful for the

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