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Title: The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them by Freedom Writers, Zlata Filipovic ISBN: 0-385-49422-X Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 12 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (34 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book should be in every high schools curriuclum!
Comment: The Freedom Writers Diary is a book about a teacher that made a huge difference in her students life. She has students write journal entries throughout the years and compiles them and makes a book. This book is a great book for anyone to read because it lets people look into the lives of under privileged children and the pain they go through. This book is a book that shows people how just because people are stereotyped into not becoming the best they can, doesn't mean they won't make a difference. Everyone in this world has something to offer. I think that this should be a mandatory book for high school students to read. I would rather read this book before I would want to read To Kill a Mockinbird or Pudd'in Head Wilson. This book has a lot more that teenagers can relate to or can understand.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great resource for teachers and students.
Comment: I think this book is a terrific resource for kids and teachers for several reasons. On a personal level, it is very inspiring. It would be hard to find a student that had worse experiences than those depicted in the diary entries. Thus, it could help a student going through tough times. Things are so much easier when we find we are not the only ones experiencing life in a particularly bad way. It would be important to include many of the readings that the class did, so that a student could have an additional basis for identity with the Freedom Writers and the authors that they read. As someone working towards a credential, I see Ms. Gruwell's example as an inspiration for my own efforts. Could I help young people to be so changed in a positive way? I sure hope so.
In a broader sense, this book shows how a very diverse group of individuals can come together to identify and accomplish common goals. By doing so they became a team, a support group and a community. Some questions for my students, would be, "How could you explain the transformation of the group over the four years they were together?" "What specifically changed?", "How do you think Ms. Gruwell helped the kids?", and "How do you think the kids helped each other?" Ultimately, this book shows how powerfully the human condition can change through the study of the concept of tolerance.
I enjoyed this book so much that I recommended that it be added to my student teacher diversity course as a required text. While it is important to study the issues of diversity and tolerance from an academic point of view, something our assigned texts seem to do well, there is an important element of reality that could be captured and presented to prospective teachers by reading this book. The example of success at such an organic, "on the street" level would be extremely valuable in that it would help to ground our studies of the broader concepts and issues. To have such a real life focus would give greater meaning and importance to our studies. By reading this book, I have a much deeper and broader understanding of the value of multicultural tolerance in the context of teaching. I am seeing the world in a completely different way than three days ago. Now I have to figure out how to do it in a Science curriculum!
Rating: 1
Summary: A Weak Read For The Gullible
Comment: An alternate title might be "My Success", since the author's name is the common denominator of every page in this book. The diary entries contain nothing verifiable, and any follow-up information is, incredibly, absent. Except: a post office box address where donations may be sent to the author's tax-exempt foundation. So many fine books are waiting to be read that it seems horrific to find this volume considered prime reading for young and impressionable educators.
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Title: Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic, Christina Pribichevich-Zoric, Janine di Giovanni ISBN: 0140242058 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Esme Raji Codell, Esme Raji Codel ISBN: 1565122798 Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Why Fly That Way?: Linking Community and Academic Achievement by Katherine Greeley, Kathy Greeley ISBN: 0807739804 Publisher: Teachers College Pr Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Of Borders and Dreams: A Mexican-American Experience of Urban Education by Chris Liska Carger ISBN: 0807735221 Publisher: Teachers College Pr Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Reclaiming Our Children: A Healing Solution for a Nation in Crisis by Peter R., M.D. Breggin ISBN: 0738204269 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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