Chapter V, Junior Year - Fall 1996 Summary and Analysis

This chapter begins with Gruwell taxiing down a runway in France. She's spent the summer touring Europe and viewing places such as the Tower of London, as well as Anne's attic. Along with traveling Europe, Gruwell taught a seminar at National University. At the end of the seminar, the dean of NU offers her a job. Through teaching education classes at NU during the week and working at the Marriott on weekends, she raised the funds to go to Europe to visit Zlata and Miep. She forged strong friendships with these two remarkable women while visiting them. This year, Gruwell hopes to make American Literature come to life for her students and acknowledges that last year will be hard to top.

Diary 54: We meet a student, one who was taking AP...