She worked a second job on weekends so she could take the students to movies and on field trips. Inspired by their readings and field trips, Gruwell's students started keeping diaries in which they wrote about their daily battles and experiences.
For some of them, Gruwell's class was the only place where anyone wanted to hear their stories. For others, it was the first safe place to share them. Gruwell didn't let anything stop her from making a difference. Her main goal was to create a place for these teenagers and she did whatever she could to maintain that. No matter the consequences she created a family and created new bonds that would never be expected.
Her devotion and commitment to the students eventually paid off. As one single woman being in that state and environment and expected to quit the first few days she spent her time with her students, didn't stop her. She continued to do what she wanted to without caring about the judgment.
Erin Gruwell, a hero, has achieved a miracle like no other. She has successfully changed lives of students with her determination and has made an impact. After an amazing journey of changing lives of others.
Erin Gruwell possessed determination and inspiration throughout her journey. Her heroic acts made an impact on students, teachers, and parents. The attributes were shown when she continued to persuade others around her to not give up and persevere. Her students continued to strive and use her advice to eventually grow and become successful. The soon to be dropouts now, have graduated from high school and most likely college and are living a new life. Erin Gruwell has inspired so many people around us and she has inspired me to make a change.
To do what I love without caring about people's judgment. As well as finding my way through obstacles to successfully complete my task. She has used her heroic characteristics and acts to change the lives of people, her audience, including me.
Motivating people to make a difference and continue to do what they love. The twenty percent of student who weren't able to graduate at Woodrow Wilson Classical High School was successfully able to graduate and continue the ripple effect of changing people's life. Accessed 3 Feb. Flint-Ferguson, Janis. Accessed 29 Jan. Freeman, Matt. Klein, Rebecca. Essays on Heroism. Watch our short introduction video for more information. Struggling with distance learning? Themes All Themes. Symbols All Symbols.
Everything you need for every book you read. The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. This passionate, idealistic teacher uses her belief in equal opportunities for all to help a group of at-risk students learn to trust in themselves and work hard to achieve their own success.
Undaunted by the hostility of other members of the high school staff, who look upon her innovative methods with suspicion and perhaps a touch of jealousy over her success, she fights to remain with her students through their four years of high school so that she can continue to shepherd them academically, socially, and emotionally.
For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:. Gruwell Quotes. Related Characters: Erin Gruwell speaker , Sharaud. Related Themes: Race, Ethnicity, and Tolerance. Page Number and Citation : Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:. Entry 2: Ms. Related Themes: Education and Healing. Page Number and Citation : 30 Cite this Quote.
Part II: Diary 15 Quotes. Page Number and Citation : 34 Cite this Quote. Part IV: Diary 43 Quotes. Page Number and Citation : 89 Cite this Quote. Part V: Diary 54 Quotes. Part V: Diary 57 Quotes. Part V: Diary 61 Quotes. Entry 6: Ms. Part VI: Diary 69 Quotes. Epilogue Quotes. Related Characters: Erin Gruwell speaker. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
The day before starting the school year as an English teacher at Wilson High School, Erin Gruwell reflects on the expectations she has of her job. Although Long Beach, where the Erin recounts the previous year, when she was still a student teacher. Despite her efforts to When Ms. Gruwell discovers what happened, she becomes furious and tells her students that such stereotyping is unacceptable On one occasion, when Ms.
Gruwell from her students the next year, arguing that Ms. Part I: Diary 1. In this diary, the student wonders on the first day of school how Ms. Gruwell could have been chosen to teach this class. Part I: Diary 2. He feels that the class is unmanageable and that Ms.
Gruwell will probably soon give up on this job. He describes the high school quad as Part I: Diary 9. This student, who hates writing, is excited by Ms.
Part I: Diary The class discusses how the Proposition would affect On his first day of school, in Ms. This student is amazed at Ms. The activity is so successful that students in other classes want to be part of Ms. Gruwell then takes her class to see Hoop Dreams, a movie where As Ms. Gruwell expresses her frustration with the various ordeals that happened last semester. She concludes that, instead Gruwell decides not to give up on her students.
She explains that, while they do not In the meantime, she plans on trying to make Part II: Diary Oklahoma, in which a man, Timothy McVeigh, bombed a building to protest against the government. Gruwell makes her class write a report about this event and this student realizes that people Gruwell takes her class on a field trip to see a movie, Higher Learning, about discrimination Gruwell has special advantages since she works there on the weekend.
At dinner, Renee shows the When she returned from a three-week period of not going to school, Ms. Gruwell interrogated her about why she had been gone for so long. The student, who felt Gruwell tells this student that, despite her very low GPA, she believes in her, the student Entry 3: Ms.
When Erin tells the principal that she is planning to leave, he is shocked and tells her Erin decides to stay at Wilson and, in addition to her original class, is given new She chooses the diaries of two adolescent Part III: Diary He says that she will miss his friends and Ms. Gruwell , who have been very supportive, and that school is one of the few things This student who has just been transferred to Ms.
Gruwell was making her students put on plays to make what they read come to life, Gruwell decides to make her students more excited about the legend of King Arthur by telling Gruwell learns what happened, she gets angry at the other teacher and recognizes the injustice that When she tells Ms. Gruwell about the incident, Ms.
Gruwell tells her that finding a racist caricature of one of The caricature reminded her of anti-Semitic images of Jews in Nazi propaganda. As they talked, Gruwell listened. She listened not just to validate them, but to gain a deeper of understanding of their needs. And as she listened, her anger turned to empathy.
For the first time, she saw their lives from their perspective. Gruwell understood the importance of creating a supportive emotional and physical space so that her students could thrive. Anyone who has logged time in a depressing corporate office or toxic work environment—or mind-numbing classroom—knows how that can sap your energy and kill off your inspiration. This room is a place you can come to before or after school.
We took photos and covered the walls with snapshots of every single student. The kids loved that. We turned our crazy, messy dilapidated classroom into a home. Every organization has its specific goals, but to accomplish those goals over time members of the team have to step up and grow into new roles. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness.
They wrote about sexual abuse, gang violence, hurt and hate. Once they began to write their own stories, it opened them up to the possibility of being able to rewrite their endings. No one, least of all the students, would have ever believed that their brutally honest stories would go on to become the New York Times best seller, and a motion picture, The Freedom Writers Diary.
In some organizations, a manager fighting for the people on their staff is an alien concept.
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