I Am Home
00:00 - 02:00
2m

Ms. Gruwell teaches her students to use writing as an outlet for self expression and storytelling.

Comments

Please sign in to write a comment.
  • Timothy Henning
    over 4 years ago
    I played this as a morning inspiration in a brief teachers' meeting before school.
Video Transcript

Related Clips

Ms. Gruwell creates a final project for her students. She encouraged them the put their diaries into a book just like Anne Frank.
Forrester teaches Jamal how to get started on his writing. He states that the first draft should come from your heart, so you should not be thinking about what you are writing. After the first draft, you start using your head to rewrite the subsequent drafts.
The Imagination Movers perform an introduction song to the topic of brainstorming.
Jason uses descriptive writing to commemorate a location that was dear to his predecessors with wistful and vivid imagery. In his commemoration, he describes each of his family members in succinct detail.
In an effort to use many sophisticated words, Joey uses a thesaurus on every word in his adoption recommendation letter for Chandler and Monica. The results are both hilarious and hard to understand.