Freedom Writers

29. May 2010 | 08:30

Freedom Elementary thespians go Broadway

The auditions lived up to the term “cattle call.” Just about every student at Freedom Elementary School in DeLand wanted to be in Beauty and the Beast.. Not everyone could. Eighty-five thespians and stage-crew members from the third, fourth and fifth grades will take to the boards for the school’s … (News Source: The DeLand-Deltona Beacon - 17:47:41)

SHMS students video chat with Freedom Writer

It’s not often that students have a chance to speak to someone who lived through an important, and traumatic, time in history. Cynthia Ray was a student of Wilson High School teacher Erin Gruwell in the 1990s in Long Beach, Calif., during the time of the Rodney King riots and heavy racial tension. (News Source: The Northeast Georgian - 13:22:56)

Summer reading program begins June 1

L’Observateur LAPLACE - With students across St. John the Baptist Parish about to be released from the confines of the school year into the freedom of the summer months, many parents are wondering how to keep their children’s brains from turning to mush like so much cheese left in the sweltering sun. (News Source: L’Observateur - 06:20:47)

Recent vets to be recognized in Independence Day parade

The theme for the 2010 American Legion Post 24 Independence Day parade will be: “Ensuring Freedom - The Volunteer Generation,” according to Publicity Chairman Claude Bloom. (News Source: The Daily News - 13:33:47)

Libel reform is on track in UK

A new bill sets out how the UK could reform its libel laws. If it is passed it will enshrine scientists’ treasured freedom to criticise, says Evan Harris (News Source: New Scientist - 16:34:44)

FREEDOM WRITERS

I used this for my year 9 class after watching the movie. It’s a culmination of lots of other resources other people have made plus my own. (News Source: Times Education Supplement - 01:48:22)

Music Review: Janelle MonÃ¡e

Critics are loath to admit it, but every once in a while we come across an album of such thuddingly obvious quality that writing a straight-up review seems boring. When a release is heralded by so many outlets-in print, on television, through the blogosphere-sometimes all that’s left to say is, yes, the subject under consideration really is fantastic: ho-hum, end of story. This is what has … (News Source: Newsweek - 21:03:29)

The end of an era looms for book publishing

I ran into my daughter’s favorite author, Mary Pope Osborne, in New York the other night, whose Magic Tree House books I’ve read to the child at night, and a moment later, Scott Turow, who writes legal thrillers that keep people awake all night, and David Remnick, the biographer of Obama. Bang bang bang, one heavyweight after another. Erica Jong, Jeffrey Toobin, Judy Blume. (News Source: The Kansas City Star - 02:12:09)

Christopher Lydon: Damion Searls: A Thoreau Journal for Writers & Moderns (AUDIO)

Damion Searls has found and freed the lean, shapely and modern American classic inside the very definition of a “baggy monster.” Henry David Thoreau’s 25-year… (News Source: The Huffington Post - 21:05:16)

Comment on Raja Petra in ‘Tak Nak Potong’ Night by Rajah

Tak nak potong?? Where’s our Salmiah Hussein? RPK should choose University of Buckingham over BPP because it is V.K. Lingam’s and former IGP Tan Sri Haniff’s (or is it Tun now) alma mater. Lots of Malaysian students there. (News Source: Din Merican - 00:48:07)

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