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The Wave Part 2 of 4

April 12, 2011 at 3:27 pm (book, ELA, novel, The wave, Uncategorized) (novel, The Wave)

Last week we started to read a book called the wave. I will tell you what happened it these four chapters. Mr. Ross the history teacher, created this motto, strength through discipline. He teaches the kids what he mean by it. He told Amy to come to the front of the room. He tells her to “place her hands flat across the small of her back.” It was so she would sit up straight, and to breath easier. Every on in the rest of the class did the same as what Amy did. Than he told the students to get up and walk across the room. He would give them a command to take there seats. As he said the command, lots of the students banged into one another. They did that exercise again but this time they were faster. The next exercise was to get to your seats fast, when you start in the hallway. They did that a couple times and David had a idea, to put the students from the person with the farthest seat back in the front all the way to the person that had the closest seat to the door at the back. He made all the students obey his orders. When asked questions, the students had to stand beside there desk and start the question with “Mr. Ross”. The next day after that class ended, Mr Ross didn’t expect the students to act like they were acting the other day. He thought that, that was a one day exercise. But all the students were acting like that. So he added to the motto, Strength through Discipline, Strength through Community. He also made a class salute. The salute was to cup your hand in the shape of a wave and tap your left shoulder. David thought that what the wave is doing would be good idea for the football team. Make them all listen and follow the rules. One night Laurie told her parents about the Wave and what Mr. Ross is doing. Laurie’s mom thought it was a bad idea, but her dad didn’t care. He also added a new part to the motto. Strength through Discipline, Strength through community, Strength through Action. Robert is now part of the “cool” group since he  is in the wave.

Dear Laurie:
Why are you letting this go on? Why do you stay in the Wave when you know that it is a bad idea? I think you are a interesting person! I just don’t understand why you don’t drop out of the Wave now. Show everyone how bad it is! Stand up to the wave. Why don’t you listen to your mother, her saying this will get bad, she probably is right. Tell people you are having bad feelings about the wave! Just drop out of the wave if you don’t feel comfortable in it.
Jessica.

My favourite part in these set of chapters is, when Laurie is telling her mother about the wave. Saying that “it is amazing, everybody is saluting and repeating the motto, there is a energy building around you”. Laurie’s mom saying she don’t like the idea of it, it sound “militaristic”. Laurie and her mother arguing back and forth of if the Wave is good or, if the Wave is bad. Laurie’s dad is liking it, saying he is with whatever is making the kids pay attention these days.

Another good part in this section is where Laurie and David are walking to school. At the beginning of the chapter that tells them about the past and them starting to walk to school together. David would walk by her house everyday, hoping to catch Laurie. David would first catch Laurie once a week. As weeks passed they managed to catch each other more frequently.By the Spring they were walking to school everyday together. David thought that it was a matter of luck or good timing. Laurie would meet him on purpose those days that she walked with him. She would be inside watching out the window until David came by. Laurie pretended to “run into” David those days. Than she did it more frequently. They walked with each other almost everyday since then.