$2 $5 $10 $20 $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $1 Characters Wonders of The Wave Literary Techniques and Propaganda Plot Points Miscellaneous Madness

The Gordon Grapevine article, “Welcome to the Wave-Or Else” was written by this person

Anonymous Junior

After the rally, this character tried to make Mr. Ross feel better by saying that the students did learn something from The Wave

Laurie Saunders

This character thinks the only reason The Wave is so popular is because students are afraid to be against it

Christy Ross

This character refers to The Grapevine office as “Anne Frank’s attic”

Carl Block

This is Alex Cooper’s job at The Grapevine

Music Reviewer

Principal Owens gets agitated about The Wave when he learns it’s modeled after this

Hitler’s Nazi Germany

This character didn’t let Laurie into the football stands without giving the salute (even though he knew it was silly)

Brad

These were the mottos Mr. Ross taught his class (answer in the order they were given)

“Strength through Discipline; Strength through Community; Strength through Action”

This character said, “It was like, when we all acted together, we were more than just a class. We were a unit” (Strasser, 37).

David Collins

This question from this student is what caused Mr. Ross to begin The Wave in the first place

Amy Smith asked, “Why didn’t anyone try to stop them[Nazis]?” (Strasser, 12)

This is the literary technique most frequently used by Todd Strasser

Foreshadowing

This is how the movie Mr. Ross showed could be considered an example of foreshadowing

The movie was about the Nazis and concentration camps; The Wave followers ended up behaving like “little Nazis”

When Laurie tells her mom, “this is a molehill and you’re looking for a mountain”(74) she’s using this type of figurative language

Idiom

These are three propaganda techniques that members of The Wave used to try to get new people to join

Bandwagon, Testimonial, Visual propaganda (posters, flyers)

According to Laurie, this is the reason that The Wave (even with its propaganda) can never be successful

There will always be people who stand up to the pressure and still think for themselves

These are two past experiences that demonstrate how Mr. Ross becomes obsessed with his projects

When he learned to play bridge; when he was studying American Indians

This was the reason Ben thought all of the kids were “into” The Wave

They actually wanted the discipline and liked it

This event made some Wave members feel more important than others

Mr. Ross handed out yellow membership cards, and the ones with the ‘x’ on the back were for the students who were the ‘monitors’

This event made Norm Schiller change his mind about The Wave

Gordon High still lost their football game. Even though The Wave got them psyched, they still didn’t know the plays.

Brian bought an extra large lunch in order to gain weight so he won’t get pounded by this team’s linebackers?

Clarkstown

Ben Ross showed his class the movie so that they would do this.

Think about what they saw, what he said, and ask questions

This story is based on an actual event that occurred in _______ in the year ______

cucu Palo Alto, California in 1969

These are the ways that Laurie and Amy deal with stress

Laurie chews on her pens; Amy smokes

These are the 3 lessons Mr. Ross wanted the students to learn from this experiment

We’re all responsible for our actions; must always question and never blindly follow a leader; never let a group take your individual rights

“If history repeats itself, you will all want to deny what happened to you in The Wave” This quote means…

After WWII, many Germans denied even knowing about the concentration camps and the persecution of millions of people