Help me get to America!

In 2020, I have the opportunity to travel to various parts of America with my Freedom Writers English class. During this tour, we will be visiting various iconic sites including; The White House, the Holocaust Museum, The Statue of Liberty along with other Historical Monuments and places, but the main reason for this trip is due to a subject I am doing, on a movie called The Freedom Writers. This movie is based on a True Story about an English Teacher in California called Erin Gruwell. In a racially divided area, majority of her students were made up of kids who were involved with gangs, drugs, exposed to murder and some even did jail time as an adolescent. Erin decided that in order to change these kids way of life, was to try something that the school curriculum hadn't tried before, by writing a Journal Freely of everything they encounter within their lives, with the hope that Erin could see where these kids needed the most help - and it worked!

We have the pleasure of going to California to meet with Erin and some of the children that Erin had taught during this time, by hearing the infamous story as well as the pressures that she and the kids would have faced during this time.