Blog post #21 Take real-tiem notes while watching the film "Freedom Writers"

Ms. Gruwell doesn't know who her class and school are like.  Students come from rough background and violence neighborhood.  Students are in gang members.  Students separate each another by race and hate each another.  Students always fight to each another. Ms. Gruwell get stressful from violence in school and she doesn't expect to see this. Ms. Gruwell asks the principle for using school book "Ann Frank" which relate to student's lives.  The principle is not approve because she think it is waste of time and students will destroy books. Ms. Gruwell asks the other teacher to help her to get the book for students; the other teacher denies and looks down on her students. The other teacher recommend Ms. Gruwell to just keep students busy and doesn't need to care to improve students' education.  Ms. Gruwell decides to get more part time job to find money to buy book. Her husband is not happy about it.  Ms. Gruwell find some gangster book to interest for students to read.  She buy notebook and encourage student to write the journal. Ms. Gruwell spends a lot of time for her class and her husband starts to not happy about it.  Ms. Gruwell reads student's journals and realized how much those students have been through.