Resource Guide for Freedom Writers Diary
Online Resources:
Freedom Writers Foundation www.freedomwritersfoundation.org
Freedom Writers movie site www.freedomwriters.com
Publisher website www.randomhouse.com/broadway/catalog/display.pperl? isbn=9780767924900#desc
Documentary www.littledust.com/films/freedom_writers.php
Indiana University Northwest campus read with more links www.iun.edu/~lib/reading/reading2007.shtml
Supplementary Reading
Freedom Writer’s Diary Teacher’s Guide, by Erin Gruwell
Teach With Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from The Freedom Writers, by Erin Gruwell
The Diary of Anne Frank
Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipovic
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Esmé Raji Codell
Holler If You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students (Teaching for Social Justice Series) by Gregory Michie
Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq by Olara A. Otunnu
I never saw another butterfly : children's drawings and poems from Terezín Concentration Camp, 1942-1944
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