Date: 19.10.

2018
Class: 11 M1
Coordinating teacher: Simona Mazilu
Deadline: 26.10.2018
Film Viewing Project
“Freedom Writers” (2007)
1. Summarize the plot of the film.

2. What is/are the theme/themes of the movie in your opinion? Why?

3. Identify the main characters and the relationship(s) between them.

Give reasons for your choices.

4. List some oppositions/obstacles Ms. G faces in the beginning.

5. Describe the racial situation in Long Beach at the time.

6. How do the students in 203 relate to one another at first?

7. Personal Reflection:

a) What is the significance of the 'line game' shown in the

classroom scene to the entire story? What is the deeper
meaning behind the game?
b) How did the characters in the film changed their
perspective on life?

8. What diary entry moved you the most? Which story struck you the
most? Why?

9. How is the Holocaust a helpful historical example for these "at-risk"

students? What do they learn from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young
Girl ?

10. Which of the film characters do you identify with/relate to

the most? Explain.
11. Choose your favorite quote from the following, and briefly comment
upon it. Why do you prefer it to the rest?
a) Brandy: Nobody ever listens to a teenager. Everybody thinks you
should be happy just because you're young. They don't see the wars
that we fight every single day. And one day, my war will end. And I
won't die. And I will not tolerate abuse from anyone. I am strong.

b) Miep Gies: You are the heroes. You are heroes every day.
c) Miep Gies: But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a
teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a
dark room.

d) Marcus: I've never had a hero before. But you are my hero.
Miep Gies: Oh, no. No, no, no, young man, no. I am not a hero. No. I
did what I had to do, because it was the right thing to do. That is all.

12.Describe the transformation of the students of room 203.

13.What was the main lesson of this movie to you?

14.How are the students of room 203 similar to your own

classmates/schoolmates? How are they different?

15. Describe Ms. G’s husband. What is his attitude towards her
teaching career?

16. What would you have done in Scott’s place? Explain.

17. What would you have done in Erin’s place? Explain.

18. Controversy:
Do you consider Erin Gruwell a good teacher? Why
How about Margaret Campbell?

19. If you are to make a "Toast for Change," what will it be?

20. Would you recommend this movie to your peers? Why/ Why not?