Summary:
Teach With Your Heart begins with Erin Gruwell’s first day as a student teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. When her first class of juniors enters her classroom, she realizes that maybe her father was right; maybe she should have become a lawyer instead of deciding to become a teacher. Her students are a mixture of races and backgrounds. None of them are there to learn and none of them care about her. After her first day, she realizes she’s going to have to try a little harder to reach these students. She begins relating things to their life; football, music, etc. When she finally get some students on her side she decides to take them to a Holocaust museum, since they’ve never heard of the Holocaust, the students begin to realize that this new teacher is willing to do more for them than any other teacher had ever been before. She had them hooked at this point.
Reflection:
Being fairly familiar with the story so far, I really like this story. From the beginning it’s very inspiring. Seeing a teacher, straight from college, thrown into the classroom with a real tough class and seeing her work very hard to gain the respect from all her students. She starts relating to all her students by discussing topics that are meaningful to them. By bringing them on a field trip to the Holocaust museum, the students really started believing that Ms. G was willing to help them. Also by purchasing books for them out of her own money made them feel really good about themselves. That she cared so much about their education, made them actually care as well.
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