The students are bothered by this, “Think we don’t know 2Pac? -White girl gonna teach us about rap”. G tried to engage the students by finding something she thought they would be interested in and using it to relate to them with 2pac rapper lyrics with poetry as an example of an internal rhyme. Having to complete unnecessary tasks when there are more important activities that I can be doing.Ĩ. I can relate to him because I am a student myself. A character that I like is Jamal because he seems like he is a funny person and entertaining to be around, making jokes out of negative situations. “You can’t go against your own people, your own blood.” 7. Most of the students in room 203 are of different race to the teachers of Woodrow Wilson high school and feel separate from the community. Also with discriminating against other races. Another way the students can relate to one another are the difficult moments of their individual lives they have to face because they’re all trying to cope with the cards they have been dealt in life. At first, the students of room 203 relate to one another because of the similar situations and issues that each have experienced. “Total civil unrest is happening throughout the Los Angeles area.” “The city resembles a war zone.”Ħ. With gang violence and racial tension reaching an all-time high, the racial situation in Long Beach was separated into tribes based on the races of each person because of the L.A. “You’re gonna waste your talents on people who don’t give a damn about education. Along with the discouragement from her father. “I give this bitch a week.” Erin had to deal with two students fighting on the first day of teaching, and witnessing another between different tribes within the school. G faced are that the students didn’t believe in her, thinking that she wouldn’t be able to last in the classroom or teach because of the difficult interracial battles between students. I think the real fighting should happen here in the classroom.”Ĥ. And I thought, God, by the time you’re defending a kid in a courtroom the battle’s already lost. “And I remember when I was watching the LA riots on TV, I was thinking of going to law school at the time.

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