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The next year comes, and Gruwell teaches her class again for sophomore (second) year. In class, when reading The Diary of Anne Frank, they invite Miep Gies (Pat Carroll), the woman who sheltered Anne Frank from the German soldiers to talk to them. After they raise the money to bring her over, she tells them her experiences hiding Anne Frank.
Freedom Writers. You Are Heroes Miep Gies, one the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, inspires the students with her powerful testimony and words of encouragement ...
In the movie, the caricature is of Jamal Hill (Deance Wyatt). The real life 1993 caricature was actually of Freedom Writer Sharaud Moore. Before coming to Erin Gruwell's class at Woodrow Wilson High, Sharaud was kicked out of another Long Beach high school for bringing a gun to school. Sharaud beat the odds and he grew up to become a teacher at ...
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them is a non-fiction 1999 book written by The Freedom Writers, a group of students from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, and their teacher Erin Gruwell. It is the basis of the 2007 movie Freedom Writers, starring ...
Nov 14, 1997 · Beyond that, all 150 Freedom Writers--former taggers, gangbangers, dropouts, juvenile delinquents and others simply adrift in the sea of a big city high school--expect to be accepted to college.
Jan 5, 2007 · Freedom Writers: Directed by Richard LaGravenese. With Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton. A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves and pursue education beyond high school.
The main characters in The Freedom Writers Diary are Erin Gruwell, Zlata Filipovic, Miep Gies, and the freedom writers. Erin Gruwell is a young, impassioned teacher who endeavors to connect with ...
