A transformation is specifically visible in one student, Marcus. He tells her he is unhappy because she didn't consult him about the new jobs.

Erin gradually begins to earn their trust and buys composition books for them to use as diaries, in which they write about their experiences of being evicted, being abused, and seeing their loved ones die.ĭetermined to reform her students, Erin takes on two part-time jobs to pay for more books and activities, and spends a lot more time at school, much to the disappointment of her husband, Scott. Erin has them play a game called 'the line game' and by seeing that they have all been through traumatic experiences, the students start becoming closer to one another. The next day at school, Erin examines a racist drawing by Tito and utilizes it to teach the class about the Holocaust, which everyone, except for White student Ben Samuels, has no knowledge of. As a witness, Eva must testify in court she intends to guard 'her own' in her testimony and protect Paco. As Grant storms out, Paco (as retaliation for losing a fight against him during the school brawl earlier) attempts to kill him, but misses and accidentally kills one of Sindy's friends, while Grant flees the scene and is later arrested for the homicide. The store owner becomes angry with Grant in return and orders him to leave the store. African American student Grant Rice, frustrated about losing an arcade game, demands a refund from the store owner. Her classmate and rival Sindy Ngor, who is a Cambodian refugee, and her two friends also enter the store. One night, Eva goes into a convenience store while Paco and two other friends stay in the car. Erin goes home upset and distraught as she had witnessed another Latin American student bring a gun to school. Several students charge out and fight on the school grounds. The alarm bell rings and screams are heard. A few days after becoming a teacher at Wilson, almost the entire school is involved in a massive brawl, when a Hispanic student, Eva Benitez lets her boyfriend Paco into the school with his fellow gang members. She notices on her lunch break that the school is divided into racial groups. She attempts to instill respect, but they ignore her and continue to be disruptive in class. Erin struggles to form a connection with her students and observes numerous fights between some of them, who are in rival gangs. In 1994 in Long Beach, California, Erin Gruwell has been accepted to teach English for at-risk students at Woodrow Wilson High School-a once highly acclaimed school that has declined since voluntary integration had been enforced and where racial tension has increased since the Los Angeles riots two years before. He was fatally shot at age 18 in Anaheim, California, after a confrontation with a man who robbed Jones of a necklace in a Denny's restaurant. The film was dedicated to the memory of Armand Jones, who was killed after filming Freedom Writers. Durning served as co-executive producer of the film. The idea for the film came from journalist Tracey Durning, who made a documentary about Erin Gruwell for the ABC News program Primetime Live. Supreme Court decision ordering the desegregation of interstate buses in 1961. The title of the movie and book is a play on the term ' Freedom Riders', referring to the multiracial civil rights activists who tested the U.S. The movie is also based on the DC program called City at Peace. It is based on the 1999 book The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Gruwell and students who compiled the book out of real diary entries about their lives that they wrote in their English class at Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California. Freedom Writers is a 2007 American drama film written and directed by Richard LaGravenese and starring Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey and Mario.

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