Gruwell uses several different genres to help her students. She uses writing to understand about the lives of her students and their interactions with the world around them. She uses a logical appeal at first when she arrives at the school to teach the students in her class. Gruwell arrives in class carrying some lesson plans and reading lists that as a young teacher she knows are the way to go. However, she soon realizes that this approach will not work.
After this she decides to use the emotional appeal to pull in the students by allowing them to tell her their own stories. She does this by handing them books in which to write. The promise is that this work would not be judged or graded giving them the freedom to write without reservations. This appeals to their emotions because the students have a teacher willing to hear them. In addition, she uses the same emotional appeal to help the students understand that they were not so different. By assigning the students the book, “The Diary of Young Girl,” by Anne Frank they can see that others have suffered through life. More so, writing was a way for her to make sense of her life as they too had been able to achieve through their own writing.
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Finally, she uses an ethical approach to help the students understand that they too were different capable of more than they had previously believed. A student spoke about how she only saw herself as a possible dropout or pregnant teen. However, once she begun writing and reading stories of other people, she was able to see herself as capable of speaking an understanding the once “foreign language” that was college.
