Resistance from Aristotle to Star Wars

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 26.04.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction And Rationale
  2. Student Demographic
  3. Unit Content
  4. The Power Of A Diary
  5. Historical Framing
  6. Excerpts
  7. Teaching Strategies
  8. Classroom Activities
  9. Conclusion
  10. Appendix On Implementing District Standards.
  11. Endnotes
  12. Annotated Bibliography

Writing as a Form of Resistance: From Anne Frank’s Diary to the Freedom Writers, One Classroom. Many Voices. Stronger Together

Magen Parsley

Published September 2026

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Endnotes

  1. The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them (New York: Broadway Books, 1999).
  2. The Freedom Writers and Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary.
  3. The Freedom Writers and Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary; Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (New York: Bantam Books, 1993).
  4. Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
  5. The Freedom Writers and Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary.
  6. The Freedom Writers and Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary.
  7. The Freedom Writers and Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary.
  8. The Freedom Writers and Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary.
  9. Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
  10. Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
  11. Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
  12. The Freedom Writers and Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary, 47.
  13. The Freedom Writers and Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary.
  14. The Freedom Writers and Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary.
  15. Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
  16. The Freedom Writers and Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary; Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

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