Summary Of The Wave By Todd Strasser

He had been punished for saving the lives of several students and risking the life of his principal when a fellow student had accidentally loaded a live mortar shell. Even though no one died he was expelled for destroying the principal's office. Next Ben realized that being at Evil Spy School was better than Spy School because everything at Spy School hasn’t been refurbished since the Civil War while everything at Evil Spy School was brand new and not worn. “This was a change from spy school, where the dormitory toilets probably hadn’t been cleaned since the Clinton administration”(Gibbs 61). Ben is saying that everything at spy school has been used for quit a long time and hasn’t been cleaned like the toilets and how the showers were shared. “Having a private shower was pretty cool, too. The ones at spy school were all shared.”(Gibbs

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.” - Les Brown

“The Great Wave: Hokusai” by Donald Finkel is a poem written about “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa”, an artwork produced from 1831 to 1833 by Katsushika Hokusai during the Edo period. The “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” is just one of "The Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji". This woodblock print portrays a tremendous tsunami overpowering small man-powered boats, along with Mount Fuji in the background. The compelling contrast between the turbulent waves and light colored sky draws the viewer’s eyes to the central figure of Mount Fuji, which was considered a sacred symbol of beauty and immortality. In order for Finkel to develop a connection with Hokusai’s work of art, he finds common ground between the world of the artist and the observer. Donald Finkel’s

Gruwell taught her class about the Holocaust, the genocide of Jews. While learning about this major event in class the students were able to see how another person’s hatred affected someone’s life. They saw that many of the victims did not survive and were killed simply because of their race. This drew a parallel for the students to see how their hatred and violence against each other was senseless. In the same way Hitler killed Jews because of their race, they were killing each other. From learning about the Holocaust the students were able to step outside from their own personal norms, and examine a situation from a new or different

In “Hungry” and “On Becoming Educated” by Joy Castro as well as “Our Secret” by Susan Griffin, personal and political history work in similar ways to uncover the magnitude of similarities everyone contains. Castro uses her personal stories to emphasize societal norms, in relation to feminism, and how they affect and have affected learning similarly in history and modern times. Griffin takes on a similar task, but she relates her childhood interactions with family to those affected by the Holocaust, particularly Heinrich Himmler. Both writers identify sections in which they utilize elements of autobiography to connect individual life to the larger cultural and political implications by placing similar stories in order and broadening their choice of words and phrases. Castro and Griffin portray exactly how similar actions and occurrences can be due to the way society influences people and their ignorance, deception, and hidden intentions.

There were about 500,000 living survivors of the Holocaust in 2014. It is vital for students to be taught about the Holocaust in school. The article, "combating" shows that the students need to be aware that the event did in fact happen. The article "Genocide" shows students what happens when hate against one group or culture becomes too much. Elie Wiesel's Night shows students an eyewitness account of how much violence, brutality, and abuse to the prisoners had to go through in the Holocaust. Though some people are against the subject of the Holocaust because it is too graphic or mature for the students, it is important that students learn from a trusted adult instead of letting other students try to teach it to themselves. The students should learn about the subject of the Holocaust in school because it teaches the importance of equality, about the events occurrence, and teaching about the dangers of discrimination and abuse.

My picture book lesson that developed as a result of this class discussion was presented to a ninth grade college-prep level class at Bishop Hendricken High School. Hendricken is an all-male Catholic high school, and this particular class has thirty students. Although there is not a great deal of diversity at Hendricken (about 90% Caucasian students), this class is fairly diverse. There are four African-American students, seven Hispanic-American students, one Japanese-American student, one Syrian-American student, and one Indian-American student in the class. Most students’ literacy skills are at or above reading level, but there are three students with 504 plans (each with ADD) and one other student with dyslexia. The class has been reading Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, and based on a survey of the students most have had limited experience studying the Holocaust.

The Wave, by Todd Strasser, is a novel about a school-wide experiment about how the German people could have followed Hitler and the Nazis. Two characters Laurie Saunders and Robert Billings showed a dramatic change in their actions, popularity, and their emotions from the Wave experiment. Together they had a huge impact at their school, Gordon High.

Ross, a history teacher had showed his class the history of the german camps in world war two. The students couldn't believe what the germans had done in the camps,   slaughtering thousands of people in horrifying ways. The class also questioned why the germans didn't admit to this, why they fled from it when it was brought up, why didn't they just not follow the command of Hitler? Ross took interest into this idea of why they didn't, so the following

During the Holocaust many Germans stated that they where only following what their superiors commanded them to do. So Stanly Milgram, a psychologist, performed an experiment to see if the individual is responsible for their actions when they are told what to do and are given reassurance that they are not responsible for their actions. Stanly Milgram did an advertisement in the paper and paid volunteers just to show up for an experiment. The volunteers were told that the experiment was on memory and learning. The test subjects where paired up with one another without knowing that those they paired up with are actually actors. The test was staged so that the one subject was a teacher and the actor was the student. They put the student in a room and strapped him to a chair with a shock generator. The teacher was in a separate room with the experimenter and was directed to shock the student 15 voltes higher for every questions the student got wrong. After several times some of the teachers asked the experimenter who is responsible if anything would happen to the learner. The Experimenter stated that “I am responsible”. Several test subjects shocked their learner to

As time passes, the other teachers and a handful of students become more troubled with the effects of the Wave (the expression

Imagine you were in school just doing your work and suddenly your teacher starts acting like a dictator and makes you guys salute him and he teaches you correct posture like in the holocaust. Would you enjoy this? I wouldn’t! I would feel like I am actually in the holocaust

Mr. Jones, a normal history Teacher turned “Hitler equivalent” ? Mr. Jone one day was having a discussion over Nazi Germany during War World II, while during the discussion a student Interrupted him and asked the questions “How could the German populace claim ignorance of the slaughter of the Jewish people. How could the townspeople, railroad conductors, teachers, doctors, claim they knew nothing about concentration camps and human carnage. How can people who were neighbors and maybe even friends of the Jewish citizen say they weren't there when it happened?” These all questions that Mr. Jones didn't have the answers to, He decided to conduct as what we know as “The Third Wave” Experiment which was based on the rules of order and discipline, the same as the Nazis in Germany. This unknowingly caused Mr. Jones class turn into Nazis and himself into a modern day Hitler. When he finally realized what he was doing to himself

Because we knew about the Nazi’s and what they had done to the Jews before we read the novel, we had some sort of expectation of what would happen in The Wave. From knowing this information, we knew that the topic of The Wave would have something to do with power and control over people, and manipulating them into doing something that isn 't necessarily correct. Because we knew that the Nazi’s tricked people into believing what they were doing was right, we were then able to understand that the novel would have some sort of basis on this. Which then happened to be true, Ben Ross the history teacher who came up with the idea became the leader of The Wave and started the new revolution. The whole topic of the wave is based on what Hitler and the Nazi party did, this is illustrated through the novel, when Ben Ross realises what he has done and still chooses to keep it going on even though he knew that it wasn’t the right thing and it was spinning out of control very quickly.

The Wave is a 2008 movie which is based on a real social experiment. The Third Wave experiment created in California with high school students and a teacher. The movie represents this experiment. It shows the audiences can fascism and autocracy occur in modern day Germany. In this essay, I will examine The Wave in the light of fascism.