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    Freedom Writers is a film about a teacher, Ellen, who takes a teaching job at a racially diverse school where the students are considered difficult. At first, Ellen struggles to get through to her students, but she persists with creative teaching methods like journal writing. This allows the students to open up about their lives and builds trust between Ellen and her students. Racial divisions start to fade as the students find common ground and form friendships. Ellen is able to inspire change in the students by creating a supportive environment where they feel accepted.

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    Freedom Writers is a film about a teacher, Ellen, who takes a teaching job at a racially diverse school where the students are considered difficult. At first, Ellen struggles to get through to her students, but she persists with creative teaching methods like journal writing. This allows the students to open up about their lives and builds trust between Ellen and her students. Racial divisions start to fade as the students find common ground and form friendships. Ellen is able to inspire change in the students by creating a supportive environment where they feel accepted.

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    Freedom Writers is a film about a teacher, Ellen, who takes a teaching job at a racially diverse school where the students are considered difficult. At first, Ellen struggles to get through to her students, but she persists with creative teaching methods like journal writing. This allows the students to open up about their lives and builds trust between Ellen and her students. Racial divisions start to fade as the students find common ground and form friendships. Ellen is able to inspire change in the students by creating a supportive environment where they feel accepted.

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    Movie Review Freedom Writers

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    Freedom Writers is a film about a teacher, Ellen, who takes a teaching job at a racially diverse school where the students are considered difficult. At first, Ellen struggles to get through to her students, but she persists with creative teaching methods like journal writing. This allows the students to open up about their lives and builds trust between Ellen and her students. Racial divisions start to fade as the students find common ground and form friendships. Ellen is able to inspire change in the students by creating a supportive environment where they feel accepted.

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    Freedom Writers

    Starring Hilary Swank, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn,


    April L. Hernandez

    Saturday, December 11, 2010

    Freedom Writers is an inspirational film with some edge. The story truly depicts
    the role of a good and real teacher in a sense of learning and teaching. The film
    shows that what could be the things that a teacher can do for a change. The film is
    all about the changing to a good life. One thing that I found about this film and
    that makes this film more passionate and motivating is that the film has many
    powerful and touching flashes in it. It isn't as prescribed in which the "big,
    powerful moment" only comes at the closing stages.

    This film tells the story of a lady who is going to experience the teaching for the
    first time. She's so excited and badly wants to get into the classroom. She got
    students from many races in which blacks, whites are more prominent. Ellen's first
    effort to instruct them anything fails. Management thought that those students are
    good for nothing and they really don’t care about their lives. Whatever they do and
    how do they do isn’t what they care. One teacher tells Ellen, "If you can teach
    them some obedience and discipline, then you will have made a tremendous
    accomplishment." Ellen wanted to create some respect for her in the students.
    Mostly students took her non-seriously and don’t bother to listen to her. But she
    still kept on striving. She tried so hard and for this, she did many things like
    different activities and games. But it took time.

    Journal writing activity played a vital role for a change in students. She just asked
    them to write whatever they want in their journal and if they want, they can let
    her to read them. She was not expecting that students would do this but she was
    wrong. Every student wrote the journal put up in her cabinet to let her read about
    their lives. There is a totally different story in every journal and then she realized
    that what horrible things are happened to them that paved the path to the crime.
    All the students became very affectionate about her. What I think is that the
    reason behind students love for her is that they got a person who at least listens
    to them. As a result, both Ellen and her students initiate to develop a relationship.
    Ellen creates a secure environment for them. Racial walls rapidly begin to fade, as
    each student grasps that they are not all that special from each other. Even the
    white student soon finds himself accepted and among friends as the hate and
    anger are replaced with tolerance, friendship, and understanding.

    SUBMITTED BY:
    KHAWAJA NAVEED HAIDER
    073605-085

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