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 lies and sins. Unsatisfied with his own inability to answer his students' earnest questions of how and why, Mr.
Ben Ross, his high school students, and an experiment he conducts in an attempt to teach them what it may have been like living in Third Reich Germany. The plot revolves around a history teacher Mr. The setting of the book is Gordon High School in Spring 1969. The novel by Strasser won the 1981 Massachusetts Book Award for Children's/Young Adult literature. Cubberley High School history class in Palo Alto, California. 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 an Ellwood P. I got halfway though before I could successfully tune them out and really enjoy the book.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). A combination of the long pauses and the audible breaths taken during them made this a very hard book to get into. Lastly, I am unsure if it was a stylistic choice, an idiosyncracy of Michael Crouch's narration, or another mark against the editors but the pauses between sentences were distractingly long.
I know this isn't exactly a best-selling book with a massive budget for an audiobook, but I've listened to podcasts and self-produced audiobooks with more consistency. No fewer than five times did the audio quality drop off significantly and return to normal a sentence or two later. First off, it was quite obvious to me that there were sections that had to be rerecorded and spliced in later. Unfortunately, the audio side of this audiobook left a lot to be desired.
The fact that I remembered this book 15 years after I first read it in school speaks to how well it delivers it's lessons in a memorable and digestible way to middle and high schoolers. Strasser tells an engaging story despite the book's short length and intended audience.
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