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The Freedom Writers Diary How a Teacher & 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Erin Gruwell 1999/R34c11
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them by Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers
Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students whose ranks included substance abusers, gang members, the homeless, and victims of abuse Gruwell was the first person to treat them with dignity, to believe in their potential and help them see it themselves. Soon, their loyalty towards their teacher and burning enthusiasm to help end violence and intolerance became a force of its own. Inspired by reading The Diary of Anne Frank and meeting Zlata Filipovic (the eleven-year old girl who wrote of her life in Sarajevo during the civil war), the students began a joint diary of their inner-city upbringings. Told through anonymous entries to protect their identities and allow for complete candor, The Freedom Writers Diary is filled with astounding vignettes from 150 students who, like civil rights activist Rosa Parks and the Freedom Riders, heard society tell them where to go and refused to listen.
ISBN: 0767924908 (ISBN13: 9780767924900)
Format: paperback
Pages: 292
Book Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket:
Copyright: 1999 by the Tolerance Education Foundation
Publisher: Broadway Books
Edition: First Edition
DEFECTS:
Book edges have some wear
light curling of covers
spine has light reader wear
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Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students whose ranks included substance abusers, gang members, the homeless, and victims of abuse Gruwell was the first person to treat them with dignity, to believe in their potential and help them see it themselves. Soon, their loyalty towards their teacher and burning enthusiasm to help end violence and intolerance became a force of its own. Inspired by reading The Diary of Anne Frank and meeting Zlata Filipovic (the eleven-year old girl who wrote of her life in Sarajevo during the civil war), the students began a joint diary of their inner-city upbringings. Told through anonymous entries to protect their identities and allow for complete candor, The Freedom Writers Diary is filled with astounding vignettes from 150 students who, like civil rights activist Rosa Parks and the Freedom Riders, heard society tell them where to go and refused to listen.
ISBN: 0767924908 (ISBN13: 9780767924900)
Format: paperback
Pages: 292
Book Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket:
Copyright: 1999 by the Tolerance Education Foundation
Publisher: Broadway Books
Edition: First Edition
DEFECTS:
Book edges have some wear
light curling of covers
spine has light reader wear
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