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The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing To Change Themselves and the World around Them

A young teacher attempted to engage a class of high-risk urban students by introducing them to books about intolerance and ethnic misunderstanding and developing their own awareness of discrimination and social bias through diaries that documented their own thoughts and feelings.

• Author/Creator: Filipovic, Zlata
• Author's address: Doubleday, 1540 Broadway, New York, NY 10036 ($12.95). Tel: 800-223-6834 (Toll Free).
• Date Published: 00-00
• Notes: Search the catalog at the library of the University of Colorado at Boulder. English ISBN: 0-385-49422-x Foreword by Filipovic, Zlata . Written in conjunction with students in the "Freedom Writers" project. Authored by The Freedom Writers, with Erin Gruwell. Document (RIE) 010 Books; 020 Collected Works--General EDRS: Document Not Available from EDRS.
• Year: 1999

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Multicultural Educational Practices
• Subject: High School Students
• Subject: Multicultural Education
• Subject: Secondary School Teachers
• Subject: Social Discrimination

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