TTWY pages 104-140

This section of Teach With Your Heart by Erin Gruwell focused on the third years of her students. She begins the school year with the "Toast for Change" into order to try to wipe the slates of her students clean. She taken back with some of the open and honest things that her students say. For example, Maria says, "I don't want to be pregnant by the time I'm fifteen like my mother," (107). Erin introducesd the Anne Frank diaries to her students, and gets mixed reactions; Erin felt that the book might be something that her students would be able to relate to. During this section, the class put the effort in to getting two guest speakers to come and visit them, Miep Gies and Zlata (a ethnic cleansing refugee from Bosnia). Erin is surprised at the enthusiasm that her students put into the visits.
One thing that stood out in this chapter was the growing and almost too-close of a relationship that Erin has with her students. On page 115, she calls a student "sweetie", a word of endearment that could make others perceive that she favors him. She even gets sick from the stress that she feels at school- I understand taking your work home with you, but you can't forget to take care of yourself for the sake of others.