We agreed that this was one of our favorite assignments, viewing a movie during class hours. Well, it was actually my liking to watch educational movies with my friends and was able to share opinions and thoughts later on upon finishing the viewing. I loved this movie as a whole as it portray the real lives of people on the other part of the globe and somehow acted as the representative of the reality and existentialism in life.
The character of Miss G was absolutely well presented as a teacher who was willing to do more for the sake of her students. I was happy to see her change her students’ perception on literature by introducing texts that are familiar to them, such as The Diary of Anna Frank, and took all the trouble to have Anna’s friend share her experience with the students. The issue was really happening nowadays where people are still being racist, which I wonder why they make life more miserable by doing things that are not necessary when they can just walk on the same ground and breathe the same air.
In History Boys, what attracted me so much was Hector, the big, literary scholar. He was indeed an interesting character despite his tendency for harassing his students. Anyway, I think the most crucial thing I learnt from these movies were that different teachers have different approaches in teaching. In this case, they were basically teaching literature as well as history. It tapped my mind that these two can’t be separated as we also learn history and culture and other many things through literature, and that’s miraculous. In Freedom Writers Miss G utilizes literary texts to teach Holocaust and help the fix their cold relationship with their classmates. As in the other movie, Hector applies literature heavily to somehow teach history, whereas the new professor, Irwin had more linear way of having them to write good history essays in order to prepare them for Cambridge and Oxford.
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