5. Recount

In your own words what has happened in the book? At any point in the story, retell the major details of the story’s plot so far.

In the beginning of this book, Laurie and her friend Amie were writing in the publications office.

In their first history lesson they watched a film about the Nazis in the Second World War. Ben Ross, the history teacher, showed them how horrible the regime of the Nazis was and told them that this could happen again. But they didn’t agree with him. So he started an experiment. He called it “The Wave”.

The students learned how to use “Straight through discipline, community and action. They were a strong community and there was also place for the nerds find

Fascinated, Laurie told her mother about The Wave, but she told her, “This thing is very creepy.” Laurie thought about it and planned to destroy the community. Her boyfriend was very into this group and wanted to stop her.

At some point, The Wave was too hard. It wasn’t under control and Benn Ross had to stop his experiment. He showed his community a picture of Adolf Hitler. This was the end of the Wave.

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4. Prediction

At any point in the story take a guess as to how the story will go on or finally conclude. What is going happen?

The Wave community became bigger and bigger and got more and more influence. Laurie spoke about her mother about it. Her mother was worried, because Robert’s mom said he was a new person now. Laurie herself didn’t agree with her mother. But the next morning, she saw a letter from an anonymous junior. He said the Wave was not good for the people, because, if you are not a part of it, you are alone.

Laurie began thinking about it and wanted to destroy The Wave. David did not agree with this, because he thought it was the best for the football team. They had a big fight.

Christy Ross didn’t agree with The Wave either. She told Benn to stop it and go to Owens to tell him that he will stop it.

Owens told him to stop calling him every 5 minutes, he should just stop it! Benn knew he made a mistake. He set a meeting for The Wave owners only.

At this meeting, he showed a picture of Adolf Hitler. The students were shocked and realised what was happened with them.    

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3. Characterisation

Describe a character from the book. Say why you like / dislike the character.

I describe Ben Ross. He is teaching history at the Gordon High School and he is the main actor of this book. 

To his person: He has brown hair and for a teacher he is young. He is married to Christy and lives with her. He is a person who is full of energy and dedication.  For his lessons, he is full of creativity and tries new things to get the lessons near to the students. He is striving for power in his leadership. His wife once told that he is fascinated by crazy things. As he was younger, he invested every free time to learn something about native Americans.

I like his character very much. He is a person with a real aim; he does what he wants to do. He is interested in new things, for example the experiment to show how the Nazis achieved their enormous effect. I didn’t read the book to the end, but I could not find anything that I would not agree with. 

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2. Empathy

Write about something happening in the book that you can relate to. How did you react? Try to put yourself in the characters’ shoes and say why you think they feel the way they do.

At the beginning of this book, Benn Ross, the history teacher, taught the students about the Nazis during the Second World War. The students didn’t accept his statement that in other crises, the people would do the same as the Nazis.

I understand the teacher. The mind of humanity didn’t change. If you don’t have a job and no future, you believe a man who says he will change your live.

If I had the chance to do the same as Benn Ross did in this book, I would also do that. But you must also look at the bad side of this fanaticism. You must always have control over these children. I agree with Mr Ross. There are more positive things and the students loved to be a part of a hard community. Outsiders and people who don’t have many friends find a place to be. We see this nowadays as well; most people belonging to extreme groups want to be part of something, because they give them a place.

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