Have your class ever acted out a scene from history? Has it ever gone too far?
The Wave is based on an incident that took place in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969. As the class studies WWII, Ben Ross (the teacher) can’t get his students to understand the events in Nazi Germany. So Ben created a movement called The Wave what begins in a single classroom becomes the whole school The Wave’s motto,”Strength Through Discipline, Strength through Community, Strength Through Action,” governs the entire school. David Collins, (a student) recognizes The Wave for what it is and sets out to stop it before history repeats itself.
A significant passage of the theme statement was, The idea intrigued Ross. Supposed, he thought, just suppose he took a …show more content…
Ross realizes that his experiment could become independent, out of control.This is on page 62 when Strasser writes, Mr.Ross realized the power he has over the army of students in his Wave experiment. Silence fell over the room. Mr.Ross gazed at the students in wonderment. The Wave was no longer just an idea or a game. They were The Wave now, and Ben realized that they could act on their own without him if they wanted. That thought could have been frightening, but Ben was confident that he had control as their leader. The experiment was simply becoming much more interesting (Todd Strasser Page 62). The Wave was increasing Mr.Ross was losing his grip on The Wave while more students were joining. This shows The Wave’s growth this was a success twoard Mr.Ross’s experiment.
I recommend this book to history teachers who teach histroical events of history during Nazi Germany in WWII. This is because they may get inspiration from the book The Wave and may alternate the way Ben Ross taught his class.
Text to self - This book reminded me of when my history teacher made us pretend to be historic romans but after class no one stopped because it was entertaining to all it even went outside the
The Wave is based on an incident that took place in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969. As the class studies WWII, Ben Ross (the teacher) can’t get his students to understand the events in Nazi Germany. So Ben created a movement called The Wave what begins in a single classroom becomes the whole school The Wave’s motto,”Strength Through Discipline, Strength through Community, Strength Through Action,” governs the entire school. David Collins, (a student) recognizes The Wave for what it is and sets out to stop it before history repeats itself.
A significant passage of the theme statement was, The idea intrigued Ross. Supposed, he thought, just suppose he took a …show more content…
Ross realizes that his experiment could become independent, out of control.This is on page 62 when Strasser writes, Mr.Ross realized the power he has over the army of students in his Wave experiment. Silence fell over the room. Mr.Ross gazed at the students in wonderment. The Wave was no longer just an idea or a game. They were The Wave now, and Ben realized that they could act on their own without him if they wanted. That thought could have been frightening, but Ben was confident that he had control as their leader. The experiment was simply becoming much more interesting (Todd Strasser Page 62). The Wave was increasing Mr.Ross was losing his grip on The Wave while more students were joining. This shows The Wave’s growth this was a success twoard Mr.Ross’s experiment.
I recommend this book to history teachers who teach histroical events of history during Nazi Germany in WWII. This is because they may get inspiration from the book The Wave and may alternate the way Ben Ross taught his class.
Text to self - This book reminded me of when my history teacher made us pretend to be historic romans but after class no one stopped because it was entertaining to all it even went outside the