Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Compare and Contrast on Gruwell and Keating

Both schools are ran differently causing the teachers to contrast from each other.  Every teacher in somehow different in their own way.  Erin Gruwell has her own way of teaching just like Mr. Keating does which makes them similar in a way, but their styles on the other hand are quite different.  Gruwell teaches at a high school which she was not welcomed to nor having the knowledge of what she was getting herself into.  Erin didn't care though.  She looked on the positive side of things just like Keating did.  Gruwell went out and got two additional jobs on top of her teaching job she had just to get her students books she feel they deserved.  Keating didn't have to provide books for his students, hell he even had them tear out pages upon pages of their book because he didn't like it.  Keating can relate to how the boys felt because he too attended school there.  Erin couldn't very much relate and know what her students had to go through.  Keating also lived by the famous saying "Carpe Diem" which means seize the day.  Erin and Keating also have a lot of similarities between themselves.  As I mentioned before they are both positive and seek out to make their students happy and to have them feel good about themselves.  They want to have them look forward to coming to class and not be bored out of their minds.  Both teachers were very inspirational to their students and began to change their lives.  Teachers like Erin Gruwell and Mr. Keating are great examples on good teachers.

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