English Project 3rd CFREEDOM WRITERS

Freedom writersShortly after the Rodney King riots in L.A., new school teacher Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank) takes on the difficult freshman class of Wilson High School, made up of criminals and underprivileged kids that the system has given up on. The ever-optimistic young teacher comes up with her own curriculum to try to get the kids to learn more about themselves and the world around them, she makes them write about their lives in journals, while discussing with fellow teachers and the school principal about her techniques.

“Freedom Writers,” a true story about a white teacher (Ms. G) trying to make a difference in a room full of with black, Latino and Asian high school freshmen. In “Freedom Writers” Erin Gruwell, in 1994 was a 23-year-old student teacher assigned to teach freshman English at Wilson High School in Long Beach, Calif. By the time Erin steps into her classroom, the students are understandably skeptical, contemptuous. From where they sit, some with their backs literally turned away from the front of the room, Erin looks like the stranger from Newport Beach.Among the most important of those stories is that of Eva Hernandez, whose voice is among the first we hear in the film. Her father is arrested; she’s initiated into a gang. She hates everyone, including her white teacher, because no one has ever given her a reason not to. In time Eva stops hating Erin. It’s a hard journey for both women.

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Students become interested in the Holocaust because Ms G compares the kind of discrimination these kids suffered (because of their skin colour or race) and that of the jewish.

The holocaustThere are few periods of time in history that are darker or more shocking than the Holocaust. And while the majority of people today understand at least vaguely what the Holocaust was, there are actually a growing number of younger people that don't fully understand or even know what it involved. Taking the time to understand the basics of the Holocaust is important, and should serve as a good jumping off point for understanding more about what happened during it. 

The Holocaust is generally thought of as the genocide of roughly 6 million Jewish people during World War II. It's important to understand that the genocide of Jews and others during the Holocaust didn't occur in a short period. Instead, it was a process that occurred in carefully planned stages, gradually leading up to the implementation of the "Final Solution". 

It began with laws that required Jewish people to be removed from the rest of the general population. These laws generally forced Jews and black into ghettos, overcrowded areas of cities that were essentially used as holding areas.

 It was later in the course of WWII that the Nazis set the Final Solution into motion, and it was then that some of the concentration camps became extermination camps. The sole purpose of these camps was simply to execute as many people as possible in as efficient a manner as possible. Millions died in these death camps, and this is the phase of the Holocaust that most think of when they think of it. Simply put, the Holocaust was one of the darkest periods of history, filled with madness and murder. Remembering it today helps honor those who perished and also ensures that such a thing won't be repeated as years go by.

Museum Of Tolerance Ms G takes the students to the museum of Tolerance where they really learn about the Holocaust. They were reading “Anne Frank’s” book who was a victim.

Martin Luther King JRMartin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. King has become a national icon in the history of American progressivism.In March 1955, a fifteen-year-old school girl in Montgomery, Claudette Colvin, refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in compliance with Jim Crow laws, laws in the US South that enforced racial segregation. King was on the committee from the Birmingham African-American community that looked into the case.

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, urged and planned by Nixon and led by King, soon followed. The boycott lasted for 385 days, and the situation became so tense that King's house was bombed. King was arrested during this campaign, which concluded with a United States District Court ruling in Browder v. Gayle that ended racial segregation on all Montgomery public buses. King's role in the bus boycott transformed him into a national figure and the best-known spokesman of the civil rights movement.On October 14, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. 

AuthorsO Ivancich MateoO Di Carlo RamiroO Fowler TomásO Grosso OrnellaO Lapalma PilarO Ferruchi MartinaO Centeno Juan CruzO Araoz SantiagoO Huete Manuel