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Freedom writers: justice in context
Characters
EG
Erin Gruwell is a highschool teacher. She is new at the highschool she teachers at the movie. Her classroom is filled with kids of mixed races, and she applied for that spot because she believes that everyone deserves the same level of education. She does a lot for her students and she is always trying to understand what injustices they all face everyday.
Eva
Description
Eva is a teenage girl who goes through what every teenager goes through and more. At a young age Eva loses her father as he gets arrested for something he did not do. This would have had a huge impact on her as she would have grown up without a father figure. When the students play the line game in class, we find out that Eva and some of her classmates have lost many friends due to gang violence. Throughout the film we see small fractions of her life and some of the injustices she faces. She is angry and wants revenge on the people who are not “her own”. Throughout the film Eva’s morals change and she grows as a person have. She is happy and focusing on her education and.
Mrs Campbell
Mrs Campbell is the principal of the highschool that EG teaches at. Mrs Campbell’s view one the students is very different to EGs perception. Mrs Campbell Believes that the students don’t deserve an education and that they are the main reason for all the problems at the school. Mrs Campbell is one of the antagonists of the film.
Image from film that demonstrates justice/ injustic
Ideas
idea 3
the notion that your race determines the quality and content of your education
Explain
When Mrs Gruwell goes to the school library to borrow books for her students, Mrs Campbell says it is not allowed, she says that the students will ruin the books and she makes racist comments such as “students like yours” which is referring to the mixed race of her classroom
TQE
Mrs Campbell’s high morality statement issues a challenge to EG “you can’t make someone want and education. The best thing that you could do is get them to obey. To learn discipline.”
TQE
Idea 1
All individuals respond differently in the face of injustice
Explain
we see in the film when the ‘big fight’ happens at the beginning, some sit there, and some get involved and fight
TQE
sybolism of the piece sign I’m the background with the violence taking place in the foreground highlights what is currently more important to the students
TQE
panning shot: shows the reactions of the students throughout the school when the fight breaks out. Some students get involved and some run
Idea 2
we live in an unjust society. It is our actions and responses that determine whether or not we can have an impacts on the lives of thos who cannot make a difference themselves.
Explain
when Mrs Gruwell is using her talents in teaching and helping the kids learn and tell their stories, injustices and experiences. This would not of happened unless she hel
TQE
symbolism of the Line game: it’s designed to get the students talking and thinking about their own experiences, but also make make them aware of how their experiences are shared
TQE
Symbolism of the journels: “everyone has their own story, and it’s important for you to tell your own story” journels provide students with a voice and allows them to be heard for the first time in their life
Context
Freedom writers is a film about injustices, gang violence and discrimination. This film takes place in the US in the 90’s after the LA riots. At one of the high schools an integration program is put in place for the students of varied races. An English teacher who is new to this school gets this class to teach and she tries to understand the injustices her students face on an everyday basis. She gives them the chance to tell their individual stories which gives them a voice. Her goal is to inspire the students to want an education and to live a better life.
Integration
Integration was a policy that was put in place to stop discrimination against African Americans and to provide equality to all races.
segregation
Segregation was a separation method that was used to discriminate against people of colour. for example, if you were white you had access to better services than to someone who was black.
LA riots
the 1992 LA riots was a civil rights movement where people were rioting because of police brutality, inequality and racism. A man named Rodney King was arrested and beaten by 4 police man, three of them white, and was video taped and broadcasted on TV.
