鈥楩reedom Writer鈥� Erin Gruwell to screen new documentary at SCUSD high school
Free event on May 13 at John F. Kennedy
May 9, 2016 (茄子视频): Teacher Erin Gruwell, whose work with at-risk teens was depicted in the movie 鈥淔reedom Writers,鈥� will appear at John F. Kennedy High School on Friday, May 13, to screen a new documentary that tells what happened to her students after the movie was released.
The event is free and open to the public.
Gruwell鈥檚 book about her quest to inspire 150 at-risk students in Long Beach (鈥淭he Freedom Writers Diary鈥�) was the basis for a 2007 film starring Hilary Swank. The new documentary, 鈥滷reedom Writers: Stories from an Undeclared War,鈥� follows the students from 1994 through the present day.
In her classroom at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, Gruwell used the writings of Anne Frank to help her students discover a new way of expressing themselves. Gruwell left the school in 1998 but has kept in touch with her students. She is founder of the Freedom Writers Foundation where she currently teaches educators around the world how to implement her innovative lesson plans in their own classrooms.
Gruwell has written two books on teaching, 鈥淭each with Your Heart鈥� and 鈥淭he Freedom Writers Diary Teacher鈥檚 Guide.鈥�
- WHAT: 鈥淔reedom Writers鈥� Film Screening with Erin Gruwell
- WHEN: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, May 13
- WHERE: John F. Kennedy High School, 6715 Gloria Drive, 茄子视频, CA 95831