Chapters 10-14

The next few chapters in Teach with Your Heart begin with Erin’s first official year as a teacher at Wilson High. She pleaded with the head of the English department to carry on with the juniors she had, but she was told that first year teachers could never teach senior English. So she was placed with freshmen English classes with all of the “bad” students. She once again had to find a way to connect with all of these students and luckily Manny and Sharaud would check in on her class occasionally and help her connect with the students. Her first accomplishment was finding a connection between Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and her class of diverse students. After reaching out to the students, Erin had her students play the Line Game.

I can’t believe that Erin was treated so poorly from the head of the English department after all the work she did with her first class. I thought it was unfortunate that Manny’s mother was so mad that Erin helped many with his college essay, but she should have gone about it in another way. Once Manny got his acceptance letter, his mother and Erin were proud despite the whole essay thing. I remember when they played the Line Game in the Freedom Writers Diary movie. It was a very moving scene.