In Erin Gruwell’s The Freedom Writers Diary, Ms. Gruwell, a teacher, helps change students for the better. Ms. Gruwell starts her new job at Wilson High School. Her new co-workers start to judge her for that class she is assigned to. She is assigned to teach delinquent students because they are failing and other teachers refuse to teach them. However, Ms. Gruwell is determined to teach her students new information. The reason why she is so determined is because only a few know about everything in
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Anne Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929, to Otto and Edith Frank. Anne was also welcomed by her older sister Margot, who was 3 ½ years old at the time of Anne’s birth. The family lived in Frankfurt, Germany, which was a religiously diverse town. The Frank family lived a comfortable life in Frankfurt, being an upper-middle-class family. However, life for Jewish families got harder as Adolf Hitler gained power in Germany. With anti-semitism gaining popularity, and Adolf Hitler’s rise in power, Otto
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boastful, smart, and above all insightful person. In the beginning of Anne’s diary, she displayed the traits that most people would not think of her. In the beginning of her diary, Anne seems to be totally full of herself not recognizing how arrogant and boastful, she was being, but all changes when Anne and her family are forced into hiding and all her luxuries are stripped from her. Throughout the course of her diary she writes about her trials and tribulations, she writes about the guilt she felt
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In “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, Anne is childish, loving, and disrespectful. One of Anne’s important traits about her personality is her immaturity. She can be described as childish because she is always fooling arounding. An example of this trait can be seen on page 359 where “Anne sneaks Peter’s shoes from under the table and hides them behind her back”. Another one of Anne’s traits is that she is loving. Anne shows a lot of love and affection towards her father
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We all know and love the story of Anne Frank and her famous diary. Her story seems one of a kind, yet with Netherlands State Institution for War Documents already had about 200 similar diaries in 1946 (before Anne's diary was even published), and her own sister wrote a similar diary. If there are so many like hers, what makes Anne’s diary so captivating and memorable to so many? It makes sense that so many know of her tale as her diary has been translated into 70 different languages with over 30
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Do you enjoy your summers? Well one thing for sure is that Greg Heffley doesn’t. Jeff Kinney’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days” starts with summer vacation. In this book, Greg is the main character again, and summer vacation is on. He expects to stay home and play video games, but his mom thinks the opposite. One day Greg’s summer vacation turns into a total blast, when Greg calls Rowly to hang out, Rowly excitedly tells him that he’s going to his family’s country club. Right away, Greg rudely invites
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that you should always have an open mind and should never judge before you know the facts. There are good people and bad people out there. You are the one who needs to make the choice. The first session I went to was called Writing Resistance: The Diary of Anne Frank and the Legacy of Her Work. Anne Frank was a girl who wants everyone to be peaceful like her. Unfortunately you always have the people that find a way to ruin everyone’s lives. For Anne Frank that guy was Adolf Hitler, an anti Semitic
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Erin Gruwell, author of “The Freedom Writers Diary” and founder of the Freedom Writers Foundation, spoke on encouraging diversity and understanding in a lecture titled “Teaching Tolerance” in Moreau Hall’s Little Theater on Friday. Penn High School sophomore Katie Laiman approached Saint Mary’s with the idea to invite Gruwell to speak as a part of Girls Scout Gold Award project. “I think this talk was really impactful, and I hope everyone that was here takes a lot from it,” Laiman said.
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what was going on of World War II. Her diary explained how Jew’s was going through a horrible experience. Anne Frank influenced people learning how discrimination was affected during the 1940’s. Anne Frank gave people by giving a little knowledge about her life was, emotional impact, history how Nazis treated the Jew’s, her showing her bravery, and Anne Frank helped the world understand that 6 million Jews was killed in the Holocaust. By Anne famous diary, Anne Frank helped the world understand
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Book : Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 2 Author: Jeff Kinney 1. Setting - There are multiple setting in this story. These settings include the house, school, talent show and leisure towers. At morning the settings was at the house and on the school campus. During the evening the setting was also home and when it became night the talent show was held. Lastly the leisure tower was also a setting. 2. Summary of Plot – in the book, diary of a wimpy kid: Rodrick Rules, by Jeff Kinney, the main character
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