Freedom Writers Diary

After coming back from Christmas vacation and trying to make it the Freedom writer’s return to school.
When they return they find out that they have won The Spirit of Anne Frank Award.
The award honors “those who have followed the courage of their convictions to step forward and actively confront anti-semitism, racism, prejudice and bias related violence in their community”(pg 222).
They Freedom writers start a fundraiser so they can go to New York to accept the award.
Many TV shows and magazines called Ms. Gruwell so that they can talk about the Freedom Writers but she denied all of them until Connie Chung called her.

Why didn’t Ms. Gruwell accept the TV and magazines offer to help them get to New York?
Why won’t the board allow all of the freedom writers to accept the award?
What is GUESS??
What did the Freedom writer’s do after high school?

Cavort- to bound or prance about.
Tattoo- a rapid, rhythmic drumming or rapping.
doyen- the senior member of a body or group
In the final term of the senior year the Freedom writers are getting ready for graduation and tell of their success throughout their four years of High school.

Freedom Writers Diary

Ms. Gruwell is fighting to have the freedom writers as seniors.
Ms. G and Don Parris created a nonprofit organization called the Tolerance Education Foundation to help the college bound Freedom writers to pay for college.
Ms. G’s primary focus is this year is to have the freedom writer’s focus on college and their futures.
Many of the Freedom Writers don’t even know about the SAT’s and what it takes to get into college.
All of the Freedom writer’s are feeling the weight of financial burden.

Were there any scholarships available to them?
Did the school give any guidance to their students about college?
Did the segregate the help?
How could all of this be caused by busing?

elicit-to draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke
chagrin- acute vexation or embarrassment
banal- commonplace; trivial

1. During the beginning of their senior year the freedom writers are falling on hard days with college applications and finical burdens.

Freedom writers Diary

During junior year met with Miep Gies and Zlata.
Zlata was only 15 when she met with the Ms. G and her students.
The class decided to name themselves the Freedom Writers.
They named themselves after a group of Civil Rights activists in the 1960s who decided to challenge segregation in the south.
The Freedom Riders integrated their bus and traveled from Washington, D.C., through down south. Their goal was to change segregated interstate travel.
The Freedom Writers fought to get Ms. G back for their senior year.

How did Ms. G meet Miep Gies?
How did she meet Zlata Filipovic when she visited Europe?
How did the freedom writers talk the school board into letting Ms. G be their teacher for their final year?
What made Ms. G decide to turn all of the dairies into one book?

Cathartic- evacuating the bowels
diarist- a person who keeps a diary
gravid- pregnant

1. During their junior year many of the Freedom writers who used to be F and D students had now raised their grades to A’s and B’s.

Freedom Writers Diary

During the sophomore year Ms. Gruwell began to realize that some of the teachers had it out for her and talked about the students in the teacher’s lounge.
Ms. Gruwell had bought books for the kids about teens in the holocaust and other places of genocide. These books included: The Wave by Todd Strasser, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, and Night by Elie Wiesel.
The students compared their lives to Anne, Elie, and Zlata.
Because of all the teachers were against her Erin interviewed for a new position at another high school but the principal stopped her and talked her out of it.
One of the students invites Zlata Filipovic to the school to talk to them about her experiences and everything she went through.

What did the other teachers have against Erin?
What did Ms. G do that was so special or different from other teachers?
Why aren’t the names of any of the students in the diaries?
Where there still racial conflicts in the classroom?

monotonously- lacking in variety; tediously unvarying
fatalistic- the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate
Logistics- the branch of military science and operations dealing with the procurement, supply, and maintenance of equipment, with the movement, evacuation, and hospitalization of personnel, with the provision of facilities and services, and with related matters.

During sophomore year the students learned more about the genocides and even started a read-a-thon.

Freedom Writers Diary

The book begins during the freshman year in the fall of 1994.
Due to busing and an outbreak in gang activity, a large majority of the white students had left.
Blacks, Latinos, and Asians made up a large majority of the student body.
On Ms. Gruwell’s she experienced a racial situation between a black student and a Latino one.
There was a lot of racial tension between the different racial groups of the school.

Where did all of this racial tension start?
How does this tension affect clubs or sports teams?
How have Freshman in High school not heard of the holocaust?
Why does it seem like as soon as Ms. Gruwell shows up all of this racial tension is gone?

Propaganda- the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person
integral- necessary to the completeness of the whole
anonymity- an anonymous person

The first couple of chapters are about Ms. Gruwell’s adjustment to her new class and their metamorphosis into kids who actually care about her and realize that she is trying to help them.

A Scanner Darkly: The Movie

1. The movie helps clear the confusion about the Scramble suit and how it looks and works.
2. Shows a lot more about Donna and Bob’s relationship.
3. Jerry Fabin is no longer part of the story.
4. Charles Freck isn’t in the movie a lot compared to the book.
5. Shows what Substance D looks like.

1. Why isn’t Jerry Fabin in the Movie?
2. Why were major parts of the book left out?
3. Why are Jerry and Charles characters combined?
4. Why was the scene with Luckman choking and Barris not saving him included?

1. Cajole- to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance.
2. Barris:Okay, okay! I mean jeez. Or as the Germans would say "leise" which translates to "be cool". Just be cool.

1. Fade Transition Chapter 9 going into Chapter 10
2. Chapter 4: :20-Chapter 5 Over the Shoulder between Barris and Freck

1. The film was very good and cleared a lot of questions I had because it showed what Phillip K. Dick was trying to get across but couldn’t really explain in a book.

A Scanner Darkly

1. Donna is Hank!
2. The police were using Fred.
3. Donna sends Fred to New Path.
4. New Path is producing the Substance D drug.
5. Fred is renamed Bruce is finds the blue flower that makes the drug.

1. Why is the book called A Scanner Darkly?
2. What happens to Charles Freck, did he die?
3. What happened to Barris and Luckman?
4. Did Bruce every meet back with Donna?

1. Emanate- to come out from a source
2. Gunjy- ??? Made up???
3. Stoically- not affected by or showing passion or feeling

Falling action- “What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does it see into me? Into us? Clearly or darkly? I hope it sees clearly because I can't any longer see into myself. I see only murk. I hope for everyone's sake the scanners do better, because if the scanner sees only darkly the way I do, then I'm cursed and cursed again.”
Dénouement- the ending

1. We learn that Fred was being used by Donna (who was really Hank) and is now stuck in New Path.

A Scanner Darkly

1. Substance D is also called slow death which is basically what it does to the user.
2. Arctor’s constant use of Substance D is causing a separation between the two hemispheres of his brain.
3. Arctor is becoming a user!
4. Donna tells Arctor that she won’t have sex with anyone because she plans to use her vagina to smuggle four pounds of cocaine across the Canadian border!
5. Arctor is thinking about killing Jim Barris.


1. Why does Charles Freck cry after he leaves Arctor’s house?
2. Why doesn’t Donna want Bob?
3. What is Barris doing with the mushrooms?
4. Why is Barris using toxic mushrooms?

1. genuflect- to be servilely obedient or respectful
2. coaxed-to influence or gently urge by caressing or flattering
3. gratis- without charge or payment; free

1. Protagonist- Bob Arctor/ Fred
2. Genre- Science Fiction

1. In this part we learn that Barris is crazy and is betraying Arctor.

A Scanner Darkly

1. Charles Freck and Bob Arctor are connected.



2. Bob Arctor is Fred.



3. The scramble suit is some kind of advanced technology that hasn’t been brought to public.



4. Fred has to report to the headquarters for daily briefings about the resent substance D information.


5. Fred is starting to get addicted.

1. Why is Barris so werid?
   
2. Is Barris hiding something?


3. Is Fred starting to get addicted?


4. Does Fred always wear the scramble suit?

1. Futility-a useless act or gesture
   
2. dredge-an excavation activity or operation usually carried out at least partly underwater
   
3. writ- a formal written document

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1. in this part of the book we learn that Barris betrayed Bob and is the one who called him in.
   
   
   

A Scanner Darkly

1. Jerry Fabin is some kind of dope head.
2. A drug named Substance D is a major drug in the future.
3. Jerry believes that there are bugs on him and all over his house and dog.
4. Fred is an undercover cop.

1. What does the scramble suit look like?
2. Why is he seeing Bugs everywhere he goes?
3. What kind of drug is Substance D?
4. What year does the storey take place in?
5. Why do Police officers have to take PR classes?
6. Do the drug dealers know about the scramble suit?

1. Opaque- blocking the passage of radiant energy and especially light
2. Aversion- the act of turning away
3. Gaffed- To hook or land a fish using a gaff.

1. Metaphor- Life in Anaheim, California, was a commercial for itself, endlessly replayed.
2. Setting- Anaheim, California

In these pages we learn about a new drug called substance D and how an undercover cop named Fred is trying to stop the selling of it but starts to take it himself.

Lord Of The Rings

1. The Fellowship is ambushed my an army of orcs and a cave troll.


2. Gandalf sacrifices himself for the Fellowship after being attacked by Balrog.


3. The Fellowship arrive at Lórien and rest their.


4. While alone Boromir tries to attack Frodo for the ring and once he realizes what he has don falls to his knees and weeps.


5. Frodo decides to continue the adventure by himself because of all the chaos among the Fellowship that is being brought.Sam chases after Frodo and after nearly drowning the two of them venture of to their destination. The rest of the fellowship is scattered looking for Frodo and the ring.

1. Why does Boromir attack Frodo?


2. Where is Pippin and merry?


3. Why did Aragorn tell them to split up?


4. What will happen to Frodo and the ring?

1. Climax- Boromir tries to take the ring from Frodo.
2. Rising action- Gandalf sacrifices himself for the rest of the fellowship.
3. rising or falling action- Frodo and Sam take off alone and leaves the rest of the Fellowship.

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1. The Fellowship start to break up and Frodo along with Sam leave the Fellowship to destroy the ring themselves.

The Lord of The Rings

1. Gandalf brings Frodo and Bilbo to meet with the council.
2. Gollum escaped from the elf prison with the help of an army of orcs.
3. The Council decides to let Frodo take the ring, to destroy it.
4. The people that join Frodo and named The Fellowship of the Ring are Frodo, Sam, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn, Boromir, Merry, and Pippin.
5. The Group tries to pass through Caradhras but some evil force is causing avalanches and forces them to turn the other way.

1. Why doesn't the Council let Tom go since the ring has no effect on him.
2. Why don't the council send more men with frodo.
3. Why don't they just take that giant eagle Gandalf used to escape and ride it to the mt. to destroy the ring?
4. Why didn't the council send some more powerful wizards or elves to help them.

1. The story is written in Past tense.
2. major conflict- Frodo struggles with the opposing forces of the Ring's corrupting influence and the responsibility of destroying it
3. Rising action- the formation of The Fellowship of the ring.

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1. The Fellowship of the ring sets off to destroy it.

The Lord of The Rings

1. Strider saves the hobbits by waking them up early because when they return they find their sheets and pillows slashed and thrown everywhere.
2. The group is attacked by the ghosts in black robes and Frodo is stabbed in the shoulder.
3. During their continued journey the frodo is dieing and they see trolls that Gandalf had turned to stone years ago.
4. Frodo is carried by an elf's horse across a river bank and is chased by the dark riders in black robes.
5. The Ringwraiths were once mortal kings to who Sauron gave Rings of Power which he used to bring the kings under his control.

1. Why can't the Ringwraiths be killed?
2. Why doesn't anyone see Bilbo about to attack Frodo?
3. Why couldn't the Ringwraiths cross the water to go get Frodo?
4. Why has the council chosen Frodo to be the bearer of the ring?

1. Protagonist-Frodo
2. Tone- mysterious
3. setting (time) -The end of the Third Age of Middle earth

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1. In these chapters Frodo and the group finally make it to Revendel and are greeted by Gandalf and the Council.

The Lord of the Ringz

1. The Bree is a meeting place for the two very different worlds of the Shire and the rest of Middle-earth.
2. Both Hobbits and Big People (humans) live there in relative peace, and there is always a steady stream of travelers of all kinds.
3. Frodo tells the other hobbits to not call him by his last name because of the danger.
4. Frodo is seen in public with the ring on his finger and he disappears.
5. The hobbits meet a Ranger named Strider whos knows about the rings and wants to meet with them later on.

1. Why didn't Tom go with the Hobbits?
2. Why is the Bree such a common place?
3. How does Strider know about the ring?
4. Who is Strider?

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1. The section of the book we learn about Strider and who he is.

The Lord of the Ringz

1. Frodo is suspicious of Tom after he gives him the ring.


2. Frodo runs off alone after the group leaves Tom's house and heads into the woods.


3. Frodo and the other three hobbits have been captured by a Barrow wight(what ever that is).


4. Frodo cuts off the Barrow wights hand and then sings a song Tom taught him.
5. Tom comes to the rescue of Frodo and the other hobbits and sends them to a inn.

1. Why did Frodo run off by himself?
2. Why didn't the Dark riders come when he put on the ring?
3. Why didn't Tom disappear when he put on the ring?
4. How did Tom hear the song Frodo was singing?
5. What is Tom?

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1. In this part of the book we get to know alittle more about Tom and what he is.

The Lord of the Ringz

1. The Hobbits arrive at Tom Bombadil's house.
2. The book is more detailed about Frodo and his adventures.
3. Frodo is having werid dreams about a beautiful place.
4. THe hobbits stay another day with Tom Bombadil.
5. Tom tells the hobbits who he is and that he is the oldest thing in all of middle earth.

1. Why do the hobbits stay another day?
2. What do Frodo's dreams mean?
3. How old is Tom and how is he the oldest thing in Middle-earth?
4. What is Tom's race?

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1. Shire(almost all the pages)-A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire.
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1. In this section of the book we learn about Frodos dreams and the history of Middle-earth.

The Lord of The Ringz

1. The hobbits still haven't left the shire.
2. This is because Frodo bought a new house and in secret so that no one knows of his departure.
3. The novel is nothing like the movie.
4. The hobbits are in the woods of the shire.
5. The book is less interesting then i thought.

1. Why haven't they left yet ?
2. Where is Gandalf when all of this is happenning?
3. Why aren't all the hobbits toghter?
4. why are they talking about Frodo's house?

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1. In this chapter we learn about frodo and his companions.

The Lord of The Ringz

1. Frodo prepares to leave but doesn't leave as quickly as Gandalf told him to.
2. Frodo heads to Rivendell, the home of the wise Elrond Halfelven.
3. With the help of Sam and his other friends Peregrin Took whose called Pippin and Meriadoc Brandybuck whose called Merry, Frodo packs up and moves out that autumn.
4. Frodo and friends meet elves that help them along their journey to their next destination.
5. Frodo hears from the local farmer that a dark man in a robe is looking for him and this makes frodo afraid.

1. Why didn't Frodo jus head straight to his destination?
2. Why didn't Gandalf come along with him?
3. Why didn't the elves stay to help the defenseless hobbits?
4. Why didn't the Dark rider kill Mr.Maggot the farmer?

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1. In this chapter Frodo and friends begin on their journy to Revendell.

The Lord of the Ringz

1. The Ring was forged to give to the elves, hobbits, humans, and dwarfs.



2. During the war on middle earth the ring was cursed and lost for centuries.


3. A goblin/human named Gollum who killed his brother over the ring.


4. The ring holds power that could be used to take over all of middle earth and the dark lord Sauron is searching for it.
5. Gollum keeps the ring with him for more then 5 years until he loses it and the hero hobbit Bilbo Baggins finds it.

1. Why does Gollum turn into a decrypted goblin human thing after he obtains the ring?
2. Why is the Dark lord Sauron a giant eye?
3. Why did Gandalf let Gollum go after he questioned him?
4. Why doesn't Gandalf take the ring and destroy it himself.

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1. In this part of the story we learn the origin of the ring and how gandalf came to obtain it.

Lord Of The Ringz

1. Frodo Baggins is a Hobbit who lives in the Shire.


2. His best friend name is Sam.


3. After the hometown hero who is a hobbit who travels the world.


4. During his adventures the hero hobbit finds a mystical ring that is cursed.


5. The Ring forces anyone who wears it become obsessed with it and sends evil spirts on horeses to retrieve.

1. Why did Gandalf give the ring to Frodo?
2. Why did Gandalf burn the ring?
3. Was did Gandalf yell at Frodo when he tried to give the ring back?
4. Wat are those spirts on horses?

1. Rising action- when Bilbo gives the ring to Frodo
2. POV- Third person
3. Author- J.R.R. Tolkien

1. Setting: The shire
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1. In this part of the book Frodo is given the ring and leaves with Sam and two other Hobbits to destroy the ring.