The Wave
So unfortunately the time has come again to do another novel. This year we are reading a novel called the wave which is based on a true story.
In the first four chapters of the story we learn about all of the characters including the history teacher named Ben Ross. In his history class he decided he was going to teach the kids about the Nazis and the Germans so he showed him a video and started talking about how brutal this war was and about how bad these concentration camps were. After the movie one the students started asking questions until one kid came upon one that made the teacher start to wonder. After class he went home and then went and checked out almost every book he could find but noticed that the answer to the question could not be found on paper. He decided that the only true way these kids would learn about how bad the concentrations camps truely were was that he would conduct an experiment to teach them.
To me this book was interesting because this teacher was teaching kids about world war II and he seemed to be so interested in it like he knew a lot. When one of the kids asks him the question on why the Germans just didn’t go up to the Nazis and say no or why they just didn’t fight back or all leave he is so stumped like he must find the answer. I think that he knew there wasn’t an answer and that no one was able to write the words of what it was like on paper. The end of the chapter really got me thinking of what is going to happen next because Mr. Ross decided that there is no better way for the kids to learn about the concentration camps rather then to conduct an experiment to show them exacualy what it is like. I also wonder why he decided that he is going to dicipline them and I wonder what is going to happen to the kids or the school like if it is going to spread across and if the kids are going to learn their lesson that started out as a normal history class and a normal movie.
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