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The Freedom Writers Diary Teacher's Guide |  | Authors: Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers
Publisher: Broadway
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 16579
Media: Paperback
Edition: Teacher's Guide
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 076792696X
Dewey Decimal Number: 373.1102
EAN: 9780767926966
ASIN: 076792696X
Publication Date: October 2, 2007
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Product Description
Designed for educators by the teacher who nurtured and created the Freedom Writers, this standards-based teachers’ guide includes innovative teaching techniques that will engage, empower, and enlighten.
In response to thousands of letters and e-mails from teachers across the country who learned about Erin Gruwell and her amazing students in The Freedom Writers Diary, Erin Gruwell and a team of teacher experts have written The Freedom Writers Diary Teacher's Guide, a book that will encourage teachers and students to expand the walls of their classrooms and think outside the box.
Here Gruwell goes in-depth and shares her unconventional but highly successful educational strategies and techniques (all 150 of her students who had been deemed “un-teachable” graduated from Wilson High School): from her very successful “toast for change” (an exercise in which Gruwell exhorted her students to leave the past behind and start fresh) to writing exercises that focus on the importance of journal writing, vocabulary, and more.
In an easy-to-use format with black-and-white illustrations, this teachers’ guide will become the essential go-to manual for teachers who want to make a difference in their pupils’ lives and create students who will make a difference.
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 Freedom Writers April 7, 2009
Marylouise Flynn
I am using their story to inspire my students to write what they know about and to appreciate their lives and where they are. I am hoping that it will inspire many other classes that I teach.
 High School Book Not @ High School Level April 3, 2009
Wendy Bell (Palmdale, CA United States)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book was recommended to me because I teach an autobiography unit in my class. However, this "guide" (as well as the text it is supposed to accompany) is completely useless if you have ANY teaching experience what-so-ever. This guide is neither "in-depth" nor "unconventional." Examples such as Coat of Arms, the Line Game, Getting to Know You Bingo, KWL, and 5WsHow are all activities that are included in the most basic of methods classes in college or student teaching experiences. Some of the vocabulary activities here are word searches which don't TEACH anything nor do they check for understanding or mastery. Besides the "touchy-feely" aspect of these activities, they are so basic in nature that if I were to use them in my high school class (of a Title 1 nature just like Ms. Gruwell's site), my students would laugh, sigh, and roll their eyes and consider them a situation of me talking down to them as if they were immature elementary students. Getting to know your students and establishing a rapport of respect in your classroom is important and must be nurtured from day one. But if ALL you care about is having warm and fuzzy feelings for your students, then this is the book for you. If your students are of elementary level, then this is the book for you. If narrative writing (and other personal assignments) is the only thing you plan to assign your students, then this is the book for you. If however you need to help your high school students master a wealth of state standards across a variety of reading and writing methods, then I would look for a book that is more useful for a high school level.
Writing December 24, 2008
Karen Goldsmith (Oklahoma)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Freedom Writers Diary Teacher' Guide has an abundance of activities for the at risk student in high school that truly does not want to write. I am looking forward to using the guide when second semester starts at the high school.
A tremendously successful fake?? November 1, 2008
Katharine M. Hikel (Hinesburg, Vermont USA)
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
After hearing a story on NPR about the book I bought it, read several entries, and thought: This is completely fake! No children from diverse, underprivileged backgrounds could write with such a uniform voice, with such similar sentence structures and grammar. The diary entries all seem to have been written by the same person. They are trite, predictable, caricaturish. This seems like the next big book hoax. There is no excuse for perpetrating this travesty on students from any background, and worse, capitalizing on the disadvantaged. Shame on this writer; I hope the truth comes out soon.
Katharine Hikel, MD, Vermont
Great Resource September 29, 2008
I. L. Segedi
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I teach in a special education classroom in a high school setting with a mixed category grouping of students - college bound to students who will remain with their parents. This is a great resource to use with all students. I can use the same assignments and adjust the content level according to various ability levels quickly. I can easily select assignments I deem appropriate and not use others. Objectives follow my state standards and I simply add them to my lesson plans. Ms. G's Tips are great and the "What You'll Need" list makes it easy for any teacher on any budget to follow! There is also a section titled "Teacher Talk" that adds extra tips and ideas for all activities. This works with high and low functioning students. If you plan on studying The Freedom Writers - this is a MUST! Did I mention that all of the graphics and worksheets that you need are in the book ready to xerox!!! A real plus for the busy teacher!
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