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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why is a student asking the question, "To sign or not to sign"?
2. Why does a student's mother usually get twice as many presents on Christmas Eve as everyone else?
3. Why is the Guess? Company sponsoring a trip for some of the Freedom Writers?
4. Besides moving forward, what are the Freedom Writers doing?
5. What does a student's mother do about a teacher who doesn't read black literature?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does a student refer to choices s/he is making as if the student is a traveler in Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken"?
2. Why does the character Celie in "The Color Purple" remind a student about her Uncle Joe?
3. Why does a student have trouble editing a story about an abortion?
4. Why does a student mention that her/his mother said that "Silence gets you nowhere in life"?
5. Who is Peter Maass?
6. What circumstances lead to a student being offered a job from John Tu?
7. Why is it so unusual that the Freedom Writers win the Spirit of Anne Frank Award?
8. Why did a student charge a Coke machine when s/he was young?
9. Why are little kids bad in the projects?
10. Who is a prisoner who writes the Freedom Writers from West Virginia?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Diary 74, a student's mother tells him/her that "One person can make a difference that can change the world." Why does the student find that statement unbelievable? What are some examples of people the student remembers making great changes? Does the student begin to believe that one person can make a difference that changes the world? Does the student believe that s/he can make that kind of difference or that his/her fellow students can make that type of a difference? Why or why not? Provide examples from the book.
Essay Topic 2
The students study Ralph Waldo Emerson when learning about self-reliance. What does this quote by Emerson mean: "Who so should be a man, must be a nonconformist"? How does the quote relate to self-reliance? From their diary entries, list examples of how the students are becoming more self-reliant. How is Gruwell helping the students become more self-reliant? How are the circumstances in their daily lives making the students more self-reliant?
Essay Topic 3
Violence is an everyday occurrence for the Freedom Writers in their homes and neighborhoods. Write about the violence they see everyday. How does this violence affect the students? How does this violence affect their families or friends? How does writing the diaries help the students learn to deal with the violence in their lives? Does Gruwell help the students to break this cycle of violence?
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