Movie Trivia
This is what Ms. Gruwell gave to her students to record their daily life events.
What is diary/journal?
This student was expected to join a gang.
Who is Eva?
Ms. Gruwell called this group the "most famous gang in history."
Who are the Nazis?
This person said, "To get respect you have to give it."
What is Ms. Gruwell?
This was the game Mrs. Gruwell played in her class to make them realize they were more alike than they thought.
What is the Line Game?
This major event happened at the convenience store that affected several students.
What is drive-by shooting?
This person had a picture drawn of him that Ms. Gruwell used as teaching lesson.
Who is Jamal?
This person visited the class to talk to them about their lives/history.
Who is Miep Gies?
This person said, "At sixteen, I've seen more bodies than a mortician. Every time I step out my door I face the risk of being shot. To the rest of the world it's just another dead body on a street corner. They don't know that he was my friend."
Who is Jamal?
This is what happened to Ms. Gruwell and her husband due to her passion for her students.
What is they divorced?
This is the name of the book that Ms. Gruwell's class wrote about their lives?
What is The Freedom Writers Diary?
This person gave himself an F on his evaluation after his brother got sent to prison.
Who is Andre?
Eva told Ms. Gruwell that she hated her and this book after she found out this person died.
This person said, "That don't fly Ma" as a sign of respect to Ms. Gruwell when she couldn't move with them to Junior year.
Who is Marcus?
This is the number of part time jobs Ms. Gruwell worked in order to pay for field trips and books for her students.
What is 2?
This person is who the students hated at the beginning more than anyone else.
Who is Ms. Gruwell?
What is his friend accidentally shooting himself with a gun they found?
Ms. Gruwell had these people come speak to the students at the restaurant.
Who are Holocaust survivors?
This person said, "I don't know how this war started. It's just two sides that tripped each other way back. Who cares about the history behind it? I am my father's daughter, and when they call me to testify, I will protect my own, no matter what."
What is Eva?
Many of Ms. Gruwell's students were the first to do this in their family.
What is graduate from high school or go to college?
This major event started all of the racial tension in LA and Wilson High.
What is the LA Riots?
These two female characters came together at the end of the movie after the trial.
Who are Sindy and Eva?
This is the place Ms. Gruwell took her students that had a major impact on them.
What is the Holocaust Museum?
This person said, "During the war in Cambodia, the camps stripped away my father's dignity. He sometimes tries to hurt me and my mom. I feel like I have to protect my family."
Who is Sindy?
Ms. Gruwell found out she was able to do this with her class.
What is be with them junior and senior of high school?