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As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial character and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust—only to be met by uncomprehending looks. So she and her students, using the treasured books //Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl// and //Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo// as their guides, undertook a life-changing, eye-opening, spirit-raising odyssey against intolerance and misunderstanding. They learned to see the parallels in these books to their own lives, recording their thoughts and feelings in diaries and Naming themselves the “Freedom Writers” in homage to the civil rights activists “The Freedom Riders.”

1. What sort of things led to the holocaust?

2. What 2 books did they read that they can relate to?

4. What lesson did they learn? 5. What did they put in there journals?