艾琳·格鲁威尔
Erin Gruwell (born August 15, 1969) is an American teacher known for her unique teaching method, which led to the publication of The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them (1999). The 2007 film Freedom Writers and 2019 PBS documentary, Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart, are based on her story. She was an incredibly influential teacher who not only taught her students, but ensured their safety at home. She inspired her students to be successful by giving them guidance and being the role model they needed.
艾琳·格鲁威尔（生于1969年8月15日）是一位以其独特的教学方法而闻名的美国教师，她的教学方法促成了《自由作家日记：一位教师和150名青少年如何使用写作来改变自己和周围的世界》（1999年）。2007年的电影《自由作家》和2019年的PBS纪录片《自由作家：发自内心的故事》都是基于她的故事。她是一位非常有影响力的老师，她不仅教学生，而且确保他们在家里的安全。她通过给予学生指导和成为他们所需要的榜样来激励他们取得成功。
Erin Gruwell was born in Glendora, California to Stephen Douglass Gruwell, a formal baseball scout for the Anaheim Angels, and Sandra Faye Alley. Her parents divorced when she was still a young girl. She graduated from Bonita High School in La Verne, California, and the University of California, Irvine, where she received the Lauds and Laurels Distinguished Alumni Award. She earned her master's degree and teaching credentials from California State University, Long Beach, where she was honored as Distinguished Alumna by the School of Education.
艾琳·格鲁威尔出生在加利福尼亚州的格伦多拉，他的父亲是斯蒂芬·道格拉斯·格鲁威尔，他是阿纳海姆天使队和桑德拉·费伊·艾利的官方棒球球探。她小时候父母就离婚了。而她是毕业于加州拉凡纳的博尼塔高中和加州大学尔湾分校，在那里她获得了杰出校友奖。她在长滩加州州立大学获得硕士学位和教师资格证书，并被教育学院授予杰出校友称号。
Erin originally intended to go to law school to become a lawyer rather than a teacher. After watching the 1992 Los Angeles riots on news coverage, she decided to change her profession to a teacher because she believed educating students could make more of a difference. She reasoned "I thought, God, by the time you're defending a kid in the courtroom, the battle's already lost. I think that the real fighting should happen here, in the classroom.
艾琳最初打算去法学院去学当律师而不是教师。在看了1992年洛杉矶骚乱的新闻报道后，她决定把自己的职业换成一名教师，因为她相信教育学生可以产生更大的影响。她解释说：“我想，上帝，当你在法庭上为一个孩子辩护时，战斗已经失败了。我认为真正的战斗应该发生在这里，在教室里。
Gruwell began student teaching in 1994 at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. She was assigned low-performing students in the school. One student, a boy named Sharaud, had recently transferred to Wilson from a rival high school where he had allegedly threatened his teacher with a gun. However, a few months into the school year one of her other students passed a note depicting Sharaud (an African American) with extremely large lips. Gruwell told her students that it was drawings like that which led to the Holocaust. When one of her students asked her what was the Holocaust, she was met by uncomprehending looks -- none of her students had heard of one of the defining moments of the 20th century. Gruwell took the students to see Schindler's List, bought new books out of her own pocket and invited guest speakers.
格鲁威尔于1994年开始在加州长滩的伍德罗威尔逊高中任教。表现不好的学生分到了她的班里。一个名叫Sharaud的男孩最近从一所有竞争关系的高中转学到威尔逊，据说他在那里用枪威胁他的老师。然而，在开学的几个月里，她的另一个学生递过来一张字条，上面写着Sharaud（非裔美国人）长着厚厚的嘴唇。格鲁威尔告诉她的学生，正是这样的图画导致了浩劫。当她的一个学生问她什么是浩劫时，她看到了一副难以理解的表情——她的学生都没有听说过20世纪的那个艰难时刻。格鲁威尔带学生们去看了电影“辛德勒的名单”，她还自己掏腰包给学生买新书，还邀请来嘉宾演讲。
After her year of student teaching, Gruwell returned to Wilson as a full teacher, this time with a class of sophomores. Her fall semester got off to a rocky start due to student protests of Proposition 187. But Gruwell persevered and reached her students by asking them to keep journals and make movies of their lives, and by relating the family feud in Romeo and Juliet to a gang war. She also had the students read books written by and about other teenagers in times of war, such as The Diary of a Young Girl, Zlata's Diary and Night. Writing journals became a solace for many of the students, and because the journals were shared anonymously, teenagers who once refused to speak to someone of a different race became like a family.
在一年的教学之后，格鲁威尔在威尔逊做了一名正式教师，这次是带着一个高二的班。由于学生们对187号提案的抗议，她的秋季学期开学很不顺利。但格鲁威尔坚持下来，她通过要求学生们写文章、拍摄生活电影，以及将《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中的家庭不和与帮派战争联系起来，来达到教学目的。她还让学生们阅读战争时期其他青少年写的书，比如《一个小女孩的日记》、《兹拉塔的日记》和《夜晚》。写文章成了许多学生的安慰剂，而且因为文章是匿名分享的，曾经拒绝和不同种族的人说话的青少年变得像一家人。
In the fall of 1995, Gruwell gave each of her students a bag full of new books and had them make a toast for change. After that, she saw a turnaround in them. The students went on to surprise everyone. All 150 Freedom Writers graduated from high school and many went on to attend college.
1995年秋天，格鲁威尔给了每个学生一个装满新书的书包，并让他们为改变而干杯。在那之后，她看到了他们的转变。学生们不断给大家带来惊喜。所有150名“自由作家”都从高中毕业，许多人继续上大学。
Between 1994 and 1998, the Freedom Writers garnered a great deal of media coverage, including appearances on Primetime Live, The View and Good Morning America.
从1994年到1998年，这些自由作家获得了大量的媒体报道，包括出现在《黄金时段直播现场》，《观点》节目和《早安美国》节目中。
credential 资格证书
Holocaust 大屠杀，浩劫
depicting 描绘
sophomores 大二的学生，高二的学生
solace 安慰
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