Freedom Writer's Speaker

In English class on Tuesday we had a tiny discussion about a speaker. The speaker is Erin Gruwell. She is coming somewhere here in Memphis to speak. I think it may be at Crichton College. The main reason why I want to go and listen to her speak is because the movie Freedom Writer’s is based off of her and her students. I watched this movie for one of my movie reviews that we had due in English. I loved the movie so much because it made me realize what it may be like when I start teaching. Sometimes you get lucky and get stuck with a good school and a good classroom and sometimes you get unlucky and you don’t get put at a good school and it is hard to manage a classroom. I’m really interested to hear what she has to talk about and maybe I can include some of her stuff in my paper since I’m writing on school assessment or maybe get some ideas. I’m also interested and seeing the students she brings with her because I heard she was bringing a few of her kids that were involved with Freedom Writer’s to talk as well.