In the Chapters 5-8 was mostly and about what the class was learning and what they thought about that. It started off when the class came in quickly once instead of coming in late after the bell. On the board Ben Ross the teacher had Strength through Discipline. The whole class was wondering what that meant or was. Ben Ross was telling them what they must do for in his class. They had to sit in their chairs straight up and every time they were asking a question or answering a question they had to stand beside their desk and say “Mr. Ross…….”. The Class was over and everyone left. They day after that, at school on Ben Ross’s board it said “community”. This meant to be equally the same in every way, so that people never fight. Ben Ross told them that they were going to start a new group called The Wave. They talk about that then the class was over and they went to gym class. At gym class David thought that it would be good for the football team if they had a group like in their history class. But Eric thought that is was a very bad idea and that it was dumb. Laurie went home for dinner and her parents were talking about her father’s golf life. Finally later Laurie got a turn to talk she told them about the last 2 days in history class. Her mother didn`t like what they were doing and thought that it was not history class. The day after that Laurie and David meet up with each other on the walk to school. Laurie told David that her mother didn’t like the idea of what they were doing in history class. David thought that she was 100% wrong about that. They walked in the history class and on the board it said “Action”. As in never be afraid to ask on what you believe. Mr. Ross did his class and everyone left for lunch. In the lunch room all the Wave people sat at one table. Laurie was starting to think that her mom was right it wasn’t a history class. Everyone that sat at the table was nice to each other and was all equally the same.
I think that Laurie’s mom is right how she thinks that it is not a real history class it is totally out in the blue because they are learning words like “Community”, “Discipline” and “Action”. They could be history words but it has been 3 days in that class since they were the wave and they have not learned anything about history. Like the first day they were learning how to sit in their desk right so they had a good posture, and how to answer and ask a question. After that they had to answer questions but they still wasted around 3/4 of a class. The Second days they talk about Community witch maybe a little bit of history because a long time ago people were together as a “community” and they started the group called The Wave. The third day they learned about “action” witch could be history as in when you are a community don’t try and be like everyone else be yourself.
I understand how the 3 words (community, discipline, action) can go into being a group. Community is a group when everyone is equally the same in every way. Discipline could mean the leader might make it hard and give you discipline, but in the book he said that discipline could mean a good posture in you seat. Action could mean to be in a group but act yourself even if you are way different than everyone else, but I think that action means like it is you turn you have it all take action. Maybe on the fourth day in class they will be learning more history and not learning how to be a group. Maybe Ben Ross is going to be taking them on a trip to see what happened with the Natiz and wants them to act good, like a group so that the class is not going to fight because there answer is wrong or be a computations on how is better than the other, Ben Ross is trying to teach them in a different way.
