Because the teaching content requires students to watch the movie and complete the homework (this chapter is about social culture and media, the case discussion in this course is the issue of religious freedom of ethnic minorities in North America, so there is a chapter in the course that talks about this movie)
The 2-hour movie, simply put, is how a teacher influences a class of problem students. The problem students in this class are indeed very problematic. They have lived in a juvenile detention center, so when this new female teacher with a passion for education brought a pearl necklace from her father, the school administration advised her: Do not bring your necklace to school. As a result, on the first day of class, there was a fight in the classroom, and the students did not pay attention to the teacher at all. On the second day, there was a vicious fight in the school.
There is only one white boy and this white female teacher in this class, and the students are provoking her in her class: You don't understand our real life and you come to teach us some bullshit English literature and grammar.
The teacher came up with an idea, bought a few bags of diaries at her own expense, and asked the students to write diaries, and put them in the box at the back of the classroom if they wanted to read them. world and life. The students are all ethnic minorities, blacks, Latinos, and Asian refugees. In the students' diaries, they wrote: I saw my mother killed by my father, my brother was shot and killed by a gang, and my father was killed by a gang. The white police took away indiscriminately, how to escape in the refugee camp. In short, their real life is a war in which people can be shot and killed every day,
Students shouted to her in class: I hate white people. Students draw portraits mocking black looks in class. This female teacher realizes that violent racism and hatred are the root cause of these rebellious students' crimes. The school is reluctant to provide books to these poor students + problem students, because these students are annoying in the eyes of academic affairs and other teachers, so the female teacher started to work part-time: department stores sell underwear, hotel waiters make money to buy books for students. She bought "Annie's Diary" and other books that touched the hearts of the students, and took the students to see the World War II Holocaust Memorial Hall outside the school at her own expense. The students began to change gradually. She gave the students an assignment to write letters to the survivor who helped Annie in "Annie Diary", and after writing, the students really raised money to invite the survivor to the high school to give a speech.
Time passed quickly, and the student turned to the second year of high school, because she only had these two years of teaching experience, and she was not qualified to take students in the third year of high school according to school regulations, but for the students, this teacher and this classroom are the only ones they are respected and feel. A warm place is the only place where they feel hope for their future life, and they do not want other teachers to teach. In the film, the school administrator, represented by an old lady, is not used to this female teacher's behavior. Later, the female teacher raised dozens of computers and let the students compile their diaries into a book. Of course, it was finally published. The book was called: Street Diary of Freelance Writers . Through the pen of high school students, this book tells people about the discrimination and injustice they experience, as well as their desire for respect and love. In the end, the female teacher and the school got into trouble with the Education Department, and the result was that she could continue teaching the third year of high school. Yes, this female teacher gave her students not only respect, but also hope and love, and the students trusted her. The photo at the end of the film is probably a real photo, a group photo of the teacher and her class of students. In the photo, the female teacher's smile is so sunny.
I personally think that simple people can easily find a sense of purpose in life , just like what this female teacher said to her scumbag husband who was about to divorce her in the movie: I feel very happy that I can find the sense of purpose in my life, and the beginning , she said to the Academic Affairs: I think the best place for education is the problem class in this high school where ethnic minorities gather. Yes, the best place to do education is not to study a master's degree in education, but to go to the front line to do education.
Just as the old lady in the film who saved Annie and was invited to give a speech said: I don't think I'm a hero, I just did what I thought was right.
I can't help but think of what a black woman said in a ted speech: yes, being yourself is a revolution . Yes, it has nothing to do with culture, has nothing to do with the country, where, to be yourself, to do what you think is right, to find your own mission in life, it is a revolution.
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