The Freedom Writers diary : how a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them /
The Freedom Writers diary : how a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them / [print]
the Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell ; foreword by Zlata Filipovic.
- first edition.
- New York : Braodway Books, (c)1999.
- xvii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Includes excerpt: Teach with your heart : lessons I learned from the Freedom Writers (pages 283.-290).
As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust - only to be met by uncomprehending looks ... With powerful entries from the students' own diaries and a narrative text by [her, this book] is an uplifting, unforgettable example of how hard work, courage, and the spirit of determination changed the lives of a teacher and her students.-Back cover.
9780385494229
Teenagers--United States--Diaries.
Toleration--United States.
HQ796.F853.F744 1999
Includes excerpt: Teach with your heart : lessons I learned from the Freedom Writers (pages 283.-290).
As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust - only to be met by uncomprehending looks ... With powerful entries from the students' own diaries and a narrative text by [her, this book] is an uplifting, unforgettable example of how hard work, courage, and the spirit of determination changed the lives of a teacher and her students.-Back cover.
9780385494229
Teenagers--United States--Diaries.
Toleration--United States.
HQ796.F853.F744 1999