29. Works Cited

http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/what-censorship

http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-freedom-writers-diary/

http://ghauptman.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/09-banned-books-the-freedom-writers-diary/

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/54049.Erin_Gruwell

http://michaellmaxwell.hubpages.com/hub/Freedom-Writers-Diary-A-True-Story

http://readitherenow.blogspot.com/2011/04/freedom-writers-diary-how-teacher-and.html

http://weturnthepage.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/book-review-the-freedom-writers-diary/

30. Reflections

Overall, it was difficult to find acurate sources that also had good, helpful information. There were some good site that helped me out alot. One that really helped me was the freedom writers fondation website (http://www.freedomwritersfoundation.org/). This site help me having the correct info about the freedom writers and any other information i need .

28. Reflection Paragraph On Findings and Process

During my research, I have discovered a lot, but not as much as I had hoped to. There was hardly any information about why the book was banned, and what the names of the groups were that banned the book. I just learned how and why teachers got in trouble for using the banned book. I think with reading the book and doing this project, it let me get a better onsite on what the students in room 203 had to live and go thru .

During my research, I felt like I had learned a lot. I discovered that there are way too many teenagers out there, dealing with problems. Adult problems that they shouldnt have to go thru or face. I think with Mrs. Gruwell having the student do the life diaries , it let them really express how the feel and their views on the things that they are faced with everyday .

27. Finding Paragraph 3

I asked how did Mrs. Gruwell come up with the students having life diaries ?
She said "I chose to use books written by, for and about kids who lived in wars, such as Anne Frank, Elie Wiesel and Zlata Filopovic (a young diarist from Bosnia and Herzegovina) in a response to a comment by a Freedom Writer: “Sometimes, I feel like I live in an undeclared war.” I wanted to encourage my students that the best way to fight that war was through words and not weapons."

http://www.freedomwritersfoundation.org/site/c.kqIXL2PFJtH/b.6744051/

26. Finding Paragraph 2

One question that I asked was How did Mrs Gruwell even get room 203 when she started at Wilson High ?
She said "I chose to be an English teacher as a response to the Los Angeles riots following the Rodney King Verdict. At the time, I as living in Newport Beach, an affluent seaside community of California, but I chose to teach in a community that was directly affected by the riots. Wilson High was in transition: many students were being bused in from housing projects; many students had lost friends due to the rise of gang violence. Startlingly enough, there were 126 murders in Long Beach the year before I began teaching. "

http://www.freedomwritersfoundation.org/site/c.kqIXL2PFJtH/b.6744051/

25. Finding Paragraph 1

One of the questions I asked was what was Mrs. Erin Gruwell's first impression of the students when she got to room 203 ?
She said "I was a little naïve to the situation before me. I was a young, fresh teacher who was incredibly excited to be in her first classroom. However, I soon became overwhelmed by the differences that my students and I seemingly had. I felt sad for my students because their lives were so dramatically different than my own. "

http://www.freedomwritersfoundation.org/site/c.kqIXL2PFJtH/b.6744051/

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