EAN: 9780385494229

THE FREEDOM WRITERS DIARY - THE FREEDOM WRITERS...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic story of an
incredible group of students and the teacher who inspired them  featuring updates on the
students’ lives  new journal entries  and an introduction by Erin Gruwell    Now a public
television documentary  Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart   In 1994  an idealistic
first-year teacher in Long Beach  California  named Erin Gruwell confronted a room of
“unteachable  at-risk” students. She had intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature and
angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust. She was
met by uncomprehending looks—none of her students had heard of one of the defining moments of
the twentieth century. So she rebooted her entire curriculum  using treasured books such as
Anne Frank’s diary as her guide to combat intolerance and misunderstanding. Her students began
recording their thoughts and feelings in their own diaries  eventually dubbing themselves the
“Freedom Writers.”  Consisting of powerful entries from the students’ diaries and narrative
text by Erin Gruwell  The Freedom Writers Diary is an unforgettable story of how hard work 
courage  and determination changed the lives of a teacher and her students. In the two decades
since its original publication  the book has sold more than one million copies and inspired a
major motion picture Freedom Writers . And now  with this twentieth-anniversary edition 
readers are brought up to date on the lives of the Freedom Writers  as they blend indispensable
takes on social issues with uplifting stories of attending college—and watch their own children
follow in their footsteps. The Freedom Writers Diary remains a vital read for anyone who
believes in second chances.

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