Vilma Garcia

Ms. Gruwell succeeded in winning her students and she showed them that she actually cares. She comes up with different activities, that will help the students learn. She also takes up 2 other jobs, part time, to pay for field trips for the students. She goes out of her way to help these students and to show them that  really does care […]

After the visit from Zlata, a young teenage girl who survived a war when she was little, the students wrote about their experience and how they felt. Many wrote about how inspiring this girl was and about the dinner they were able to attend with her at a really nice and elegant restaurant. One of […]

Freedom Writers is a true story about a group of High School kids called the rejects. Everyone bailed on them and no one believed in them. These kids began to think of themselves as everyone else did. May didn’t have hope for the future or care about anything. This book is divided by diary entries. […]

Ms. Gruwell teaches at a high school in a “bad” neighborhood. The class she is in charge of is full of kids who are called rejects. This teacher comes from a rich place. Why would she move from that comfort place to the ghetto? When she sees that her dtudents are troublemakers and that thye don’t like her, why doesn’t she […]

The author speaks about his first year in Junior High School and the amount of homes he was in while in foster care. The one thing I connected with was when he spoke about his first day of high school. “… and how enormous the upper grade students were- until I discovered that they were in […]

David is now an adult and after going through so much in his childhood, he has his own family and is doing well now. He inspires everyone who is going through tough times. He travels around and goes to book signings and he works with teens and adults to help them “focus on harvesting their […]

The main idea in the pages that i’ve read is that Nancy is trying to deal with herself having AIDS. She feels like she’s ruining everyone’s life and that everyone around her is in danger. “she told me how to handle my bed linen and stuff, being much more careful than before.” She feels bad […]

The author’s purpose for writing this book is to inspire. The author herself was the one who was raped and had to live by it everyday. In her own home, in her mother’s bedroom, on her bed, was where it happened. “I hope it doesn’t take Margie as long to get over her garbage dump as […]

After Nina’s grandmother had to go to the hospital, Nina was picked up by her friend Chris and Wei. “It was freezing outside, and dark.” This reminds me of a time when I went to the hospital because my baby brother was sick. After the doctors checked him, we were able to go home. It […]

This is the second book to XVI. As Nina continues to try to reveal the actual intentions of the government, she has to keep a close eye on others and everyone around her. When Nina and her friends go to a cafe, they see a mysterious woman. “While we were talking, a woman came in […]