Teach with Your Heart: Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers

A Teacher Who Devoted Her Time To 150 Students

"What doesnt kill you will make you stronger", the quote Erin Gruwells students lived by day to day. Erin Gruwell, the author of Teach With Your Heart writes about her teaching experience at Wilson High School in California. She helps the "un-ruley" named students raise their grades, graduate and apply for college. Teach With Your Heart is the sequel to The Freedom Writers Diary. This book can get the attention of all audiences from the young to old.

Teach With Your Heart gives descriptions of the diversity of students and the challenges they had to go through. It describes how much the students improve along the way and how much they looked up to Gruwell. Gruwell has a motherly impact on 150 students. Gruwell had an impact on these students to improve their behavior and over all self. These students who were given the name "un-ruley" by the faculty now had a chance in Gruwells class. They faced obstacles that they had to over come, and they learned about the Holocaust. Students learned about Ann Frank and met Miep the women who hid the Frank family. Students actual read books they were interested in and wrote daily diarys. The daily diaries were then published into a book called The Freedom Writers Diary. Although this book and The Freedom Writers Diary are two different points of view both books can relate to all audiences.

A reviewer

This book, like the book, The Freedom Writer's Diary, is amazing. I first fell in love with the movie, and then I purchased the diary of the Freedom Writers, and then I read about Erin Gruwell's new memoir in a magazine and picked that up. This book is incredible!

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