Freedom Writers

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. The Freedom Writers have continued their mission to teach tolerance and share their story of success. Hilary Swank stars in this 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.

Object (from the curriculum, Lgr11) 

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

• Understand and interpret the content of spoken English and in different types of texts,
• Express yourselves and communicate 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.

Centralt innehåll

Content of communication:

• Current and subject areas familiar to the pupils.
• Relations and ethical questions.
• Views, experiences and feelings.
• Social relations and cultural phenomena in various contexts and areas where English is used.

Listening and reading – reception:

• Spoken English and texts from various media.
• Spoken English with some regional and social variants.
• Different types of conversations, dialogues, interviews and oral communications.
• Strategies to understand details and context in spoken language.
• How spoken language can be varied for different purposes and contexts.

Speaking, writing and discussing – production and interaction:

• Different ways of working on personal communications to vary, clarify, specify and adapt them for different purposes.
• Language strategies to understand and be understood when language skills are lacking, such as reformulations, questions and explanations.
• Conversations, discussions and argumentation.

Why are we doing this? 

So that you can... 

• improve your skills when it comes to communication in writing and speaking.
• practise different ways of expressing your thoughts and feelings both in writing and speaking.
• develop your listening comprehension.

How are we doing this? 

We are going to... 

• Watch the movie Freedom Writers and work with words and expressions from the movie. 
• Take part in a discussion about the movie in small groups. Be active and speak only English. 
• Write a text about the movie, 

How will you be assessed?

We will assess your ability to... 

• Express yourselves and communicate in speech and writing,
• Use language strategies to understand and make yourselves understood,
• How spoken language can be varied for different purposes and contexts.