الأحد، مايو 23، 2010

Freedom Writers (Teacher's Effort)





I've just watched this wonderful movie. It's based on a true story. It'd about this teacher who tries hard with her students sothat they could finish their school. Most of them are black, belonging to gangs & have no intintion to pay any attention to her as She for them is judt another white teacher who is trying to set order in class. She proves that they were wrong about her,helps them to CHANGE!. She helps them setting themselves FREE!.

This is what came about them in their own site,"Whether it was official or not, we all knew that we had been written off. Low test scores, juvenile hall, alienation, and racial hostility helped us fit the labels the educational system placed on us: “unteachable,” “below average,” and “delinquents.” Somehow, Ms. G recognized our similarities, and used them to unite us. She gave us books written by teenagers that we could relate to, and it was through these books that we began to realize that if we could relate to a little girl who lived on the other side the world, fifty years before we did, we could certainly relate to each other.

We felt like Anne Frank, trapped in a cage, and identified with the violence in Zlata Filipovic's life. We were so inspired by the stories of Anne and Zlata, that we wrote letters to Miep Gies, and to Zlata, in hopes that they would come to Long Beach and share their stories with us. When Miep visited us, she challenged us to keep Anne's memory alive and “passed the baton” to us. It was then that we decided to begin chronicling our lives.

We began writing anonymous journal entries about the adversities that we faced in our every day lives. We wrote about gangs, immigration, drugs, violence, abuse, death, anorexia, dyslexia, teenage love, weight issues, divorce, suicide, and all the other issues we never had the chance to express before. We discovered that writing is a powerful form of self expression that could help us deal with our past and move forward. Room 203 was like Anne's attic or Zlata's basement, it was our safe haven, where we could cry, laugh, and share our stories without being judged.

We decided to call ourselves the Freedom Writers after learning about the Freedom Riders who fought against segregation during the Civil Rights Movement. When we began writing these entries as a simple English assignment, we had no idea that they would one day be collected and published in a book, The Freedom Writers Diary."

This story is about ,"How education could change people destinies!". "How following such creative ways could change nations' history!".

I, say ,as ahe said, as Martin Luther King once said, "I Have a Dream."

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Amr Essam يقول...

I love this movie .. it's wonderful .. and if u dont mind i can say ( I have adream too)... nice post and charming blog.

Rehab يقول...

Amr
this is one of the most inspiring movies i've ever seen.
i hope ur dream comes true.
thanx 4 passing by.