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The Wave



​Assignments and Resources

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Overview

Overview (from Wikipedia):  
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). 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 a Ellwood P. Cubberley High School history class in Palo Alto, California. The novel by Strasser won the 1981 Massachusetts Book Award for Children's/Young Adult literature.
​The setting of the book is Gordon High School in Spring 1969. The plot revolves around a history teacher Mr. Ben Ross, his high school students, and an experiment he conducts in an attempt to teach them about how it may have been like living in 
Third Reich Germany. Unsatisfied with his own inability to answer his students' earnest questions of how and why, Mr. 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 pre-existing moral values.

The Text

THE WAVE in .pdf format
Full Audio of the Book

Reading, Quiz, and Test Schedule
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Monday, 4 November, 2019
Tuesday, 5 November, 2019
Wednesday, 6 November, 2019
Thursday, 7 November, 2019
Friday, 8 November, 2019
Meet the Book
Read Forward and Chapters 1-3
Read Chapters 4-6
Library Day​
​Open Book Quiz, Ch. 1-4 ​
Monday, 11 November, 2019
Tuesday, 12 November, 2019
Wednesday, 13 November, 2019
Thursday, 14 November, 2019
Friday, 15 November, 2019
Read Chapters 7-9
Read Chapters 10-12
​Fall Interim STAAR Testing
Fall Interim STAAR Testing
Open Book Quiz,
​Ch. 5-8 Due

Read Chapters 14-17
Monday, 18 November, 2019
Tuesday, 19 November, 2019
Wednesday, 20 November, 2019
Thursday, 21 November, 2019
Friday, 22 November, 2019
Open Book Quiz,
​Ch. 9-13
Due
Plot Diagram Puzzle
  • Review for Test
  • All late work due
6th Grade Field Trip
Final Test
Half-Day
​Make-Ups and Retests

Quizzes 


Open Book Quiz Ch. 1-4

Plot Diagram Exercise
Open Book Quiz Ch. 5-8
Open Book Quiz Ch. 9-13
Review for Final Test
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