https://padlet.com/danielamastropierro16/daniela_mastropierro Reflections en-us 2020-05-25 21:39:13 UTC 2025-10-28 12:42:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4d6.png danielamastropierro16 https://padlet.com/danielamastropierro16/daniela_mastropierro/wish/1528852167 2021-05-16 18:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/danielamastropierro16/daniela_mastropierro/wish/1528852167 danielamastropierro16 https://padlet.com/danielamastropierro16/daniela_mastropierro/wish/1638310873 2021-07-06 04:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/danielamastropierro16/daniela_mastropierro/wish/1638310873 danielamastropierro16 https://padlet.com/danielamastropierro16/daniela_mastropierro/wish/1638322923
At the beginning of the movie, we can see a lack of tolerance among students and from them to the teacher. They are in a continuous war due to stereotypes. Firstly, teachers and directors who have given up on that group of students who were perceived as “trouble”. Secondly, among students because they are divided into racial groups. They are intolerant even with their teacher who is seen as a baby-sitter not as an authority, not deserving to be respected.

Despite these confrontations, the teacher has been able to break that barrier making them feel as a family. She has been able to do that through games and different activities to make them realize that they have more similarities than differences.

These experiences taken from the movie are clear examples of what Erik Erikson stated in the emotional and social development of adolescents. It is extremely important during this period for adults to open lines of communication and be aware of the values and behaviours they are demonstrating to their youth. Teenagers are likely to accept that although periods of rebellion and rejection. It is important to learn more about the social and family background in which these behaviours are occurring. That is clearly what the teacher in the film has been able to fulfill.

]]> 2021-07-06 04:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/danielamastropierro16/daniela_mastropierro/wish/1638322923 danielamastropierro16 https://padlet.com/danielamastropierro16/daniela_mastropierro/wish/1638328649 From “The Diaries of the Students of Room 203 Woodrow Wilson H.S.” we can see that the students have their own self background and self experience which influence their personalities. This is shown by behaviours such as anarchistic, obstinate, intolerant, disrespectful, and introvert amongst others. They behave like that because they often got and saw rude behaviour in past times. They behave as gangsters. They do not respect the other groups and do not tolerate them. They always destroy and criticize each other. They are also proud of their groups. It makes the students often fight with other gangsters -this can be seen in the scene in which Eva and Cindy find themselves in the same store.

On their first day of high school, they have only 3 things in common: they hate school, they hate their teacher, and they hate each other.

Taking for example Marcus -an African American student, and looking at his own pitiful circumstances, we can realize that he is fed up to tolerate his own existence. In the beginning of the movie he is portrayed as angry with life and keeps himself from others. Being a little child, his best friend killed himself with a gun, and the police blamed him for the accident and was sent to a reformatory. This makes him hateful and guilty which later results in his mother kicking him out of the house. Anything worse could have happened to him?

 

 Erik Erikson declared: “if adolescentes do not form a coherent sense of self and values, they will lack a consistent sense of identity as they progress into adulthood”.

 As the theorist stated, during adolescence, the section of the brain involved in: social interaction, understanding other people, and self-awareness undergoes quite profound development, and this has implications for education as a fantastic opportunity for learning and creativity.  

I consider that in the movie  tolerance is built altogether with empowerment, self worth, and the power of writing, as “tolerance through literature”.The teacher Gruwell trains her students in the power of tolerance and enables them to better understand each other and the world around them; and she teaches them how to rewrite their expected outcome or fate  and gives them an opportunity to thrive with confidence.

 In the end, the teacher Erin Gruwell gives her students hope in the power of words, changing their lives!

]]> 2021-07-06 05:02:48 UTC https://padlet.com/danielamastropierro16/daniela_mastropierro/wish/1638328649 danielamastropierro16 https://padlet.com/danielamastropierro16/daniela_mastropierro/wish/1638335798 Both the novel and the movie “Freedom Writers” represent a struggle that is very common in the US and also between teengers: lack of tolerance, lack of acceptance and lack of self confidence. These three facts lead to a repetitive struggle against authority, against rules and against growing up. It can be also related to the seek for Teen’s own personality and self-esteem. 

Erin tries to rebuild those broken and rageous patterns by teaching her class Anne Frank’s biography, her diary and within Miep’s testimony, she can show the class that we all have struggles and we all feel (or have once felt) isolated, alone and segregated. Erin shows her SS that not all adults are negacionist towards teenagers’ points of view or internal struggles.

Finally, to me, it’s paramount to make our students feel valued and taken into account whenever we decide to take an activity to the classroom or help them correct those broken, toxic patterns they’ve raised either at home or while growing up and trying to discover themselves while growing up and facing struggles that lead them to question their realities and adults’ life.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/7950215

]]> 2021-07-06 05:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/danielamastropierro16/daniela_mastropierro/wish/1638335798 danielamastropierro16 https://padlet.com/danielamastropierro16/daniela_mastropierro/wish/1638343079 In this movie, adolescents  learn to be tolerant and respect others for their color and race. It shows how they  improve and change their perspective on color and social belongings differences. Ms. Gruwell really inspires and encourages them in this process. In their minds  something is naturally changing and it has to do with a mind developing process.

Adolescence is a phase of lifespan associated with greater independence, and thus greater demands to make self-guided decisions in the face of risks, uncertainty, and varying proximal and distal outcomes.  Evidence is mounting to suggest that multiple decision processes are tuned differently in adolescents and adults including reward reactivity, uncertainty-tolerance, delay discounting, and experiential assessments of value and risk. Unique interactions between prefrontal cortical, striatal, and salience processing systems during adolescence both constrain and amplify various component processes of mature decision-making.

Although adolescents appear to have full access to many of the cognitive foundations of decision-making, several aspects of decision-making such as intertemporal choice, prospective evaluation, and integration of positive and negative feedback are not yet tuned to typical adult levels. Still other processes that inform decision-making are uniquely amplified during adolescence: learning from direct experience, reward reactivity, tolerance of ambiguity, and context-dependent orientation toward risk in exciting or peer-laden situations.

Definitely, independent decision-making is a burgeoning challenge for adolescents, who are often stereotyped as making poor choices in everyday life. Adolescents' decision-making is indeed unique, and their patterns of uniqueness can be partially attributed to normative maturational changes in brain function.

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The movie makes it clear to us that adolecentes are often seen as problematic students, they need peer approval and they are extremely vulnerable to the negative judgement of their own age group. It is important for teachers to build bridges with students to help them to be conscious and especially more tolerant between peers and of course the teacher. Erik Erikson said that when adolescents move from a level called pre-conventional to the conventional level of moral, it is guided by the place in society they occupy and that they take into account the way their peers look at them, it is a necessary action for the level of adolescents' conventional morality. 

Having said all this we can take as an example the moment in which Eva’s boyfriend killed by accident Sindy’s boyfriend. Eva is a witness, she must testify at court but her parents taught her that the most important thing is to protect their own. As the movie goes on Eva feels sindy’s gaze upon her. One day When Marcus tells Miep Gies that she is his hero, she denies it, claiming she was merely doing the right thing. Her denial causes Eva to rethink lying during her testimony. When she testifies, she finally breaks down and tells the truth. Ms. Gruwell helped Eva to be more conscious and made her realize how important is her morality, this act of Eva caused a more tolerant relationship between Eva and Sindy.

]]> 2021-07-06 21:15:29 UTC https://padlet.com/danielamastropierro16/daniela_mastropierro/wish/1639261315 danielamastropierro16 https://padlet.com/danielamastropierro16/daniela_mastropierro/wish/1639263955 The film “Freedom writers” not only addresses the typical issues and characteristics of adolescents' behavior , but also represents how education takes a second place when students, especially with daily violent backgrounds, have to think first in approaching survival. At the very beginning the school has no credibility to them, because they assume that it gives any preparation for real life.

 As time goes by  the Literature teacher learns how to manage the class,once refusive,  by involving students in  “perspective-taking”, trying to separate their natural adolescent egocentricity, in which they feel their problems are more intense or significant than the ones from other people . Analyzing what happened to the jewish community during the second world war, makes them compare or make connections between stories, and be conscious of the struggle of other humans too.

To me, the group of teens accomplish a sense of belonging and rapport due to their excursion to the museum , in which they are capable of showing tolerance towards the elderly survivors of the concentration camps because they feel empathy. I would associate this part of the story with the Socio-cultural learning theory as all of the learners socialize as a team with the members of the community they are reading up on. 

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