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Joint in on the duscussion as the students of Room 112 talk about certain passage from the Freedom Writers Diary
Miss Lewis's favorite movies on tolerance
- Freak the Mighty
- Hairspray
- I Am Sam
- Pay it Forward
- Radio
- Remember the Titans
- School Ties
- The Freedom Writers
- The Power of One
- Whale Rider
Books Discussed in The Freedom Writers Diary
- Durango Street
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- The Wave
- Zlata's Diary
Other books Miss Lewis recommends.
- Copper Sun
- From the Rock
- Milkweed
- Mississippi Trial, 1955
- Night
- Seedfolks
- The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas
Quotes to live by
- “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
- “No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.”
- “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi
- “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?” - Marianne Williamson
Diary number 8
ReplyDeletethe girl in this diary entry thought it would be fun to join a sorority. To join the sorority she was required to do a bunch of things to prove she was good enough to be in the group. First she answered a series of questions, then she had to do lots of nasty things. She did all of this nasty stuff. The things she did were humiliating and disgusting.she did these things just to be accepted ,which she was. But that's not the worst part, the worst part is that now that she has been accepted in to this group of people, now that they like her, she says it was worth it.
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zoe christensen
what the author did was his/her opinion not mine. If it was my opinion i'd think its a hard life these people are living to become a popular person or a powerful & strong person. If you want to be powerful or popular or a strong person then just be it; Don't join a group to make yourself better. The wrongest thing that i've ever done is to tryt o prove something to someone that wasn't me or didnt prove anything that should've done so i regrett what i did.
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I agree with Zoe. The worst part about Diary 8 was that she beleives that it was worth it to put herself throught that. I don't understand how someone could use the words "humiliation, shame and embarrassmetn" to describe an experience and still attach value and worth to that experience. I feel sorry for her.
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ReplyDeleteI chose Diary 7 because it is about gangs. No I don’t think it would be worth it because you are risking your life and getting beat up for nothing. And it would not be safe to have a family because you could be driving down the street with your family and get shot and killed. It might be worth it to him if he doesn’t have a real family and friends then he might want them to have his back. He also might want to be in the gang because he wants some drugs to do or he wants money. Brandon B
ReplyDeletei choose diary 8 beacause the author of the diary really wanted to be in the soririty badly she was willing to do anything to be in it.
ReplyDeletebeing embarrased and tortured and peed on is really not worth it.
if i was her i wouldve turn around and tryied to talk the other girl out of being in the sority.
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nyakuoth chuol
Diary: This diary waws INSANE!!! I couldn't beleive what this girl went through just to get into some stupid sorority. I definitely don't think that this was worth it. Who would go through that much pain and embarassment for something so stupid? I mostly would blame this on the guys even though the girls were pretty stupid to. I don't remember myself doing anything I regret to be accepted by my friends. There probably is something I did but at least I don't remember it. There is no way these girls wont remember this for the rest of their life it is so messed up. What they did to get into this sorority wasnt worth it!!!!!!!!!!
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In entry 8 a girl did some stuff she regreted to get into a sority. This girl stoped talking to a girl that was kicked out of the sority. What she did was wrong. I regret trying to to get into my sister club . The club was about different cultures. ashley s
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ReplyDeleteI don't see why the author would risk being Beaten, or getting broken bones and pain for a group, a gang, or for friends. It seems like people are risking their lives to be part of the croud! this was definently NOT WORTH IT!!!
-Ashley-Nicole-
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ReplyDeleteI chose diary entry 8 because I thought what the author did to fit in and to have friends was not worth it at all. I don't think anyone has to do anything humiliating or shameful to have friends or to fit in or be part of a group. The author even said "all the humiliation, the shame, the embarrassment was worth it" just to be part of a group and have friends who don't care about you anyway. I think she should have dropped the sorority at the first meeting when they were asking her the embarrassing questions. Her friend Sarah left, why couldn’t she? Was she scared that she won't have any friends anymore, just like Sarah? Didn’t she know she could always make new friends?
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ReplyDeletei aqree with brandon i think that it is bad that people get shot and killed for nothinq.. i think that even if you are a different race that you can walk around with your family and friends and not have to worry about qettin shot and killed or your family qetting kill right in front of you...
Kayla Riney....(:
Diary entry 7:
ReplyDeleteI don't think what the author did was really worth it. Though he does, I don't get why you would want to get beaten up just to get into a gang. So what you can get into the gang so you can get shot at and possibly get and shot and killed? I see it as a death wish. But sometimes you gotta do some risky things to survive in the community that these people lived in.
~Jordan W~
Diary entry 7;
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's worth being beaten and put into a hospitalto fit in. I don't know why people would want to fit in that badly. Being different is not a bad thing. Sometimes it is actually better to be differentthan everyone else. I don't think it would be worth taking a life or bullet or dodging a bullet. No one should have to do something stupid to fit in. they should not have to kill or die to fit in.
Trevor A
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ReplyDeletea gun a gun how stupid but gangs race wars you have no choice but murder of the inocent thouse basterds pardon my french so the story of a everday kid death guns shoot outs hope you have aim kid and luck lots of luck its a dog eat dog world so stay strong and keep moving
ReplyDeleteI read entry 8 and I thought it wasn't worth going through all of that to just be with a "cool" group of people. Really it is pointless and stupid. I've done something I am ashamed of doing but everyone is at least once in their life. I also think that if the people who beat you up and make you do things that are mean than they wouldn't be very good friends anyways.
ReplyDeletei agree with kayla riney that the guy in that diary entry got killed for nothinq.
ReplyDelete♥...zoe rose erica christensen...♥
What the author did was NOT worth it. If i was in the authors position i would not risk getting beat up, bones broken and my life sacrificed just to b in a sorority. we have all done things in our life that we regret but being in a sorority just to fit in is something i would not do.
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ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more. I think that nobody should have to do anything to get into a group or be accepted by friends. Going to great lengths to do so just seems like a stupid idea, if you have to do such a thing, then they are not truly friends.
~Jordan W~
I agree with Kayla too.
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ReplyDeleteI don't think it was worth it because people will get hurt more oten. I wonder why some people would think thet it is cool to join a gange.
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i agree ~Marranda Knuths~ about diary entry 8 being very much insane. how can you do something very embarresing and shameful just to be in a group and have friends.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it is worth getting beat down and be in the hospital so you can just be in a gang. Sometimes your friends like bulling others, so they want you to. And that's not right.
ReplyDelete--Kayla Heimbaugh ! (;
Zoe
ReplyDeleteI agree that the worst part of her story, is that in the end she thought it was all worth it. It makes me think that she must have been really desperate for friends. What's also sad, is that there is a good chance, that in the future, she would be making other girls do the same horrrible things she hated so much.
Miss Lewis
hank
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no because they could have had done more damage then what ther did.Also what do you get out of it. Like she said you get killed or kill. I have done something that i regret. My friends was crackin jokes on this ked like 2 years ago and i thought it would be a smart idea to do what ther was doin but, i got to thinkin like what was he thinkin and what was i doin. If i see him again i want to apoligize cuz people made in front of him every day
i also agree with kayla to she made some good points
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