| ID | 022551 |
| Call Number | FEA/FRE |
| Title Proper | Freedom writers: their story, their words, their future |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Swank, Hilary |
| Publication | Australia, Paramount Home Entertainment, 2007. |
| Description | 118p Green spine |
| Note | A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment is something that the class can bite into with relish. This eventually bonds them together and pushes racial rivalries aside. Draws heavily from the published journals of the real students themselves. |
| Price. Qualification | $19.99(Pb) |
| Classification Number | FEA |
| Key Words | Feature films ; Teacher-student relationships ; Diaries - Authorship ; Melodrama ; Urban schools ; Student publications ; High school students - Social conditions - Drama ; High school students - Attitudes ; Education, Urban |