Characters
Who is... the teacher who created "The Freedom Writers Diary"?
Hint : Miss G
Erin Gruwell
Hint : Basketball
Hoop Dreams
What is... a confident belief or strong hope that a particular event will happen?
a. Amendment
b. Tradition
c. Expectation
C. Expectation
"will come together"
Miss G uses this food in class to explain the importance of looking below the surface.
Peanuts
Miss G had the students read The Diary of what young girl?
Anne Frank
Miss G gets permission to keep her kids in class together for four consecutive years. Although she has numerous classes, Miss G oversees roughly _____ students who come together to write "The Freedom Writers Diary".
Hint : I'm looking for a number
150 Students
What word means ... able to be trusted in the way required or expected; reliable?
a. Contour
b. Dependable
c. Stigma
B. Dependable
Silence ensures that ______ repeats itself.
History
The Freedom Writers, alongside Miss G, almost got arrested in the school parking lot after doing what?
Staying at school until 11pm to write and edit The Freedom Writers Diary. They had to crawl out the window to prevent setting off the alarms.
This character is from Bosnia and tells of her experience as a child of a victim of war.
Zlata
While pledging the Kappa Zeta sorority, one Freedom Writer was made to lie down on the ground and "sizzle like ______".
Hint : Breakfast food
Bacon
What word means ... to cause a person to seem little or less than?
a. Belittle
b. Contemplated
c. Empathize
A. Belittle
Renee Firestone tells Miss G's students, "Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all Germans were _____".
Nazis
At the beginning of "The Freedom Writers Diary" Miss G mentions a famous rapper who wrote a song about the "LBC" and shot his music video within the city. Who is this famous rapper that Miss G mentioned?
Hint : One of his most famous songs was the anthem for "Sun Drop" Soda commercials
Who is... Snoop Dogg
This character visits The Freedom Writers and tells of her experience hiding Anne Frank's family as well as other Jews.
Hint : She was Anne Frank's Father's Secretary
Miep Gies
*Daily Double*
Miss G's students were on a field trip to Washington D.C. and stood in front of what monument when reciting part of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech"?
Hint : Your total is $5.01
The Lincoln Memorial...
Honest Abe is featured on $5 and pennies!
What word is ... an oversimplified standardized image or idea help by one person or group of another; to categorize individuals?
a. Stereotype
b. Alienated
c. Humility
A. Stereotype
The students quote a Dylan Thomas poem, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night". By quoting one of his most famous lines "______, _______ against the dying of the light".
Hint : It one of Miss Miranda's favorite lines of poetry
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"
The Freedom Writers found their name after reading and research about The Freedom ________.
Hint : This group was protesting Rosa Parks arrest.
The Freedom Riders
This student was a disciplinary transfer in Miss G's class, when she was still a student teacher.
Hint : A classmate drew a racial caricature of him.
Sharaud
Miss G tries to explain to the students why their racial tensions and gang associations are so problematic by alluding to this historical event in history. What is this historical event?
Hint : When asked to raise their hands, none of the students knew of this historical event.
The Holocaust
What word means... passed or received from a family member?
a. Perpetuating
b. Depiction
c. Hereditary
C. Hereditary
This Freedom Writer says "I was twelve years old when my father died of _____".
Hint : STD/STI
AIDS
The Freedom Writers travel to Washington D. C. to present their poems and book to this White House staff member.
*Bonus Points for a name*
The Secretary of Education
*If you say Richard Riley you get double points*