Freedom Writers Crossword

2. relates to neighbourhood, turf boundaries and gang warfare
4. contracts relating to reading of journal
6. Clashing voices – from her background and her new found realization of the truth.
7. Students write their own diaries using ICT on computers given by a donor businessman.
8. Diaries of Anne Frank and Zlata as an inspiration for students to writing their own
9. teaching method to elicit questions from student’s Experience, this begins the process of change, sharing and learning together
11. Erin’s husband or her students? Erin is in for a surprise – she has become so involved with her students which her husband finds ‘noble’
12. from student’s perspective turf/gangs and history of the Holocaust with Miep Gies and other visiting speakers

1. wonderful scene with Miep Gies, the invited Holocaust Survivor from Holland, who tells them that they are the heroes, who have faced many perils courageously in their own lives.
2. her father admires her work with her class and the results she achieves, and supports her
3. initial gulf between students and teacher backgrounds – giving and earning respect
5. clips of home lives of students and Room 2003 class as their home in Wilson High
10. found inside ourselves for the ‘Other’ despite differences