Freedom Writers Project 05C

From the moment they named themselves the Freedom Writers the students of room 203 changed - from a group of apathetic, frustrated students to a closely knit, motivated family.

A true and gripping story of inner city kids raised on drive-by shootings and hard core attitude – and the teacher who gives them the one thing they need the most; a voice of their own.

The aim of this project is to develop your ability to...

• understand and interpret speech and and texts,
• express yourselves in speech and writing,
• use language strategies to understand and make yourselves understood,
• adapt language for different purposes, recipients and contexts, and
• reflect over living conditions, social and cultural phenomena in different contexts and parts of the world where English is used.

How are we doing this? 

You are going to... 

• watch the movie The Freedom Writers,
• read parts of The Freedom Writers' Diary,
• write about your thoughts and feelings in a note book, after each part of the movie and the book,
• discuss your thoughts and feelings in pairs,
• take a reading comprehension test of the first 30 pages in the book,
• write a letter to one of the characters in the movie or in the book.