Eva
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The teacher in room 203
100
Eva at the beginning of the film has this kind of mindset.
What is a victim mindset?
100
The feeling of being separate from others.
What is Alienation?
100
The title of the project is a wordplay on the term “Freedom Riders” referring to the 1961 civil rights activists that rode the state buses into the Southern States to demonstrate against their segregation policy.”
Why did the students decide to call themselves The Freedom Writers?
100
I was married to Erin Gruwell.
We got a divorce in 1994.
I felt that I didn't get to spend enough time with my wife, and she was spending more time at school than with me.
Who is Scott Casey?
200
Mexican-American girl and narrator for much of the film.
Who is Eva?
200
to understand someone’s feelings
What is Emphasize?
200
They believed that Germans were "racially superior." They claimed that Jews were "inferior" and a threat to the so-called German racial community.
What is the Holocaust?
200
After visiting Washington, D.C. to meet the Secretary of State in 1997 with the class.
Ms. Gruwell was quoted with a goal was put in the Washington Post.What is “full of promise and hope and inclusion – that testament that we can change the world.” She adds: “I think we can.”?
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Who is Erin Gruwell?
300
He killed another man in front of Eva. Eva decides to tell the truth at the trial even though she would be dead to this group.
Who is Paco?
300
Respect for different beliefs and ways of life.
What is tolerance?
300
She helped hide the family of Anne Frank above Otto Frank's business.
Who is Miep Gies?
300
Ms. Gruwell wasn't a rich woman but wanted her innercity students at Wilson High School to have an edge on education. Tell me somethings she managed to do for her students.
What is bought them books, composition books, nice meals, took them to a museum, and gave her love for teaching?
300
It wasn’t easy at first. It was the connection of when snickers or laughter occurred when a drawing/note which contained a racist caricature.
She compared it to.
What is the Holocaust?
400
Eva and all of the students in room 203 all did something after being taught by Ms. Gruwell.
What is graduating from high school and college?
400
Means to quote a source. Example be sure to cite all your sources
What is citing?
400
In the Diaries what were some similarities?
What are teenagers, and frightened they would die?
400
The boy that the students made fun of his looks. This is where the story gets exciting and the Holocaust story is told.
He
initially known as a tall, imposing, violence-prone student who intimidates his teachers and interrupts classroom teaching as much as he caninitially known as a tall, imposing, violence-prone student who intimidates his teachers and interrupts classroom teaching as much as he can
Who is Sharaud?
400
Erin would go to the school board to get help at times. She asked if she could teach her students by taking them to the Museum of Intolerance. The Department Head of English wasn't happy about a lot of her actions.
Who is Margaret Campbell? 
500
She was witness to the shooting death of a close friend and the incarceration of her father when she was a young girl. In her upbringing, she was taught to fight to defend herself and that violence was the only way to get respect. Her gang was her family.
What is tolerance?
500
Separation of people by race.
What is segregation?
500
Anne Frank lived with several people above her dad's business. One of the last people who arrived was another businessman. Tell me his profession.
What is a dentist?
500
She was only 11-years-old, she lived through constant bombings and snipers, not to mention severe food and water shortages. Like Anne Frank, she spent her days cooped up in a room (of an apartment), often never seeing daylight.
Who is Zlata?
500
She would be able to teach the students _______years,
What is four years?