This week in school we have started and book called The wave by Todd Strasser. We had to read chapters 1-4 and I found that this book started out slow and I don’t really like that because if its not interesting at the beginning of a book I can’t really stay focused on the book, After the first 5 pages of the book it started to get interesting so I finished reading chapters 1-4 really fast.In chapter 1-4 there wasn’t that much that happened but it was still very interesting, so far in this book there is a character named Ben Ross. Ben is a History teacher and some of his students names are Laurie, Amy, more names. Ben was Showing the kids in his class a video about the constitution camps and how people were killed in them. Some of the kids in his class like Laurie were every moved by the video. Laurie Could not belevie that no one would stand up and try to stop the stuff that was going on in these camps. She asked Ben why no one tryed to stop it but Ben could not answer her question. After Bens class Laurie went down to eat and ended up in the grapevine office with Amy one of the girls that was in Bens history class. Amy was smoking when the princable came up to the door and asked why it was locked Amy quickly put her smoke out and unlocked the door to find that it was just two boy playing around with them Amy got made at them because they made her wast a good smoke so they ran away because Amy scared them.
I think that this book is going to be a very good read and i cant not wait to finish reading the book. I think if i was in Ben’s class that i would have been like Laurie. I can not see why people would do mean stuff like that to other people. I found my self wondering why people didn’t try to stop what was going on in the camps after readin these copple of chapters. I thought when Laurie and David were sitting in the food cort eating and Amy and her Ex-boyfriend Brain came up and sat down on opsit ends of the table was funny because Laurie and David were stuck in the middle of there fighting. I also thing that if i was the boys that perteneded to be the pricable. Something that I like about this book is that if someone is a slow reader and has a hard time reading this book is smal and it is a very easy read. This book has had a really good start and I really can’t wait to see what the rest of this book is about.
Characters
Laurie Saunders-Student
Amy Smith-Student
Robert Billings-Student
David Collins-Student
Brain Ammon-Student
Carl Block- The Grapevine’s investigative reporter
Alex Cooper-Music Reviewer
Ben Ross-History Teacher
This is a good blog post!!! I love how u put the charactors at the bottom!!
I like how you have put yourself into the book, thinking that you might be like Laurie. Every time I read this book it makes me think and wonder about Germany during the Holocaust. What would it have been like to live there? Did the people know what was happening in the camps? Did they care? i’m horrified by the thought that people knew what was going on and did nothing to stop it.
I think this is a really good post. It is a good summery. You did a really good job explaining what happened in these chapters. Nice job. What do you think will happen in the rest of the book?
I like your blog post and I lie how you described what happened. What do u think will happen next? do you think it will be positive or negative? And I like how you put the characters at the bottom showing what part they play in the book.
I think you did a really good job on your post and you did something different then anybody else did which make it different but good but awesome job!