Freedom Writer

Last Tuesday, we were assigned to watch a movie entitled ‘Freedom Writer’. The movie centres on the story of a 23-year-old teacher resorts to unconventional means of breaking through to her hardened students. This teacher is very enthusiastic and interested in teaching. this movie basically deals with how the teacher and her teenage students used writing to change themselves and the world around them. Her students had been written off, and her chances of succeeding scoffed at, but the teacher, Erin Gruwell wasn't about to go down without a fight. Long Beach is a place where a new war is waged with each passing day, and when the hardened students who walk those dangerous hallways sense an outsider attempting to understand their plight, their cynical resentment threatens to keep a deadly cycle in motion. Despite the initially hostile reaction she receives in the classroom, Gruwell uses the writings of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo to teach her students not only the basis of the English language, but compassion and tolerance as well. Later, when the time comes to tell their own tales in a project specially designed to explore the daily violence that the majority of students have grown numb to, the barriers that had once stood so strong gradually begin to crumble. When the only chance for survival is to befriend the person who was once your mortal enemy, the world is opened to a whole new realm of possibilities.

I have learnt so many things from this movie and it really opens my eyes to dedicate myself to my future career as teacher. i realised that being a teacher is not just teaching in classroom but also educate them beyond the classroom. this movie has also introduced myself with various teaching methods like the teacher in this movie does. i have also learnt on how to handle students and make them interested in learning especially students who are quite unruly.