Laurie's boyfriend David is confused by this turn of events, as the football team had joined the Wave, while Laurie and her staff on The Grapevine plan a special issue of the paper devoted exclusively to The Wave and the negative impact it has had on the school. That weekend, the football team is unable to win against Clarkstown, as their newfound drive does not compensate for a lack of proper training and planning. Laurie receives a letter for the school paper, of which she is editor in chief, detailing how members try to recruit others with bullying. Ross's class early in the week, starts to think that The Wave is having too much of an impact. He decides to take the experiment further and create a group, The Wave, adding two more slogans-STRENGTH THROUGH COMMUNITY and STRENGTH THROUGH ACTION-which leads to further rules of conduct, a symbol, a salute, and an organizational structure. The class reacts well to this, embracing the sense of empowerment it gives them, and they continue their newly disciplined behavior into a second day of class, surprising Ross. Ross considers this and plans an experiment: the next day, he starts to indoctrinate the class using the slogan STRENGTH THROUGH DISCIPLINE, ordering them around in ways such as sitting in a specific way, and telling how to answer questions. Ross initiates the experiment (The Wave) in hopes that it answers the question of why the Germans allowed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party to rise to power, acting in a manner inconsistent with their own lies and sins. Unsatisfied with his own inability to answer his students' earnest questions of how and why, Mr.

Ben Ross, his high school students, and an experiment he conducts in an attempt to teach them what it may have been like living in Third Reich Germany. The plot revolves around a history teacher Mr. The setting of the book is Gordon High School in Spring 1969. The novel by Strasser won the 1981 Massachusetts Book Award for Children's/Young Adult literature.

Cubberley High School history class in Palo Alto, California. It is a novelization of a teleplay by Johnny Dawkins for the movie The Wave, a fictionalized account of the ' Third Wave' teaching experiment by Ron Jones that took place in an Ellwood P. The Wave is a 1981 young adult novel by Todd Strasser under the pen name Morton Rhue (though it has been reprinted under Todd Strasser's real name).

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