Page 82 - Point 5 Literature Program Option 1 Teachers Guide (2) (1)

Chapter 17
Key Vocabulary
Students may refer to the Key vocabulary list when they do the vocabulary Practice exercises.

Vocabulary Practice
Answers:

1. 1. anxiously 2. squirming 3. flicked on 4. Gasps 5. throughout 6. usurp 7. trade
8. convictions 9. discarded 10. burst 11. file out 12. littered
2. 1. throughout history
2. personal responsibility; personal convictions; personal experience
3. painful lesson; painful decisions; painful experience
4. military posture
5. somber faces; somber decisions
6. burst into tears
7. stare anxiously
3. a. throughout – the other words all relate to the mind
b. deny – the other words all relate to movement on foot
c. staggering – the other words are all nouns
d. trade – the other words all express emotions
e. anxiously – the other words are all verbs

Questions
Answers might include:
54. The Wave members were happy and excited and looking forward to the rally and their introduction to the
national leader. There was a sense of belonging, a sense of ‘rightness’ and importance and great anticipation as
they stood and gave The Wave salute and chanted The Wave mottos.
55. Mr. Ross told The Wave members that there was no National Wave Movement. There was no leader. But if there
had been, the leader would have been Adolf Hitler. Mr. Ross asked The Wave members if they could see what
they had become. Could they see where they were headed? How far would they have gone? They traded their
freedom for equality but then thought they were superior to non-Wave members. They accepted the group’s will
even when it went against their own beliefs, and no matter who was getting hurt. Some thought they could play
along and walk away at any time but could they? Did they? Mr. Ross told them they would have all made good
Nazis. Look how close you came. The students could all deny their involvement in the future, as the Germans did,
but if The Wave experiment was to be successful, it would be much better for them to take responsibility for their
own actions and learn never to follow a leader blindly, nor allow a group’s will to usurp their individual rights.
Mr. Ross also apologized for leading the students into The Wave, as the lesson had succeeded too well and was
painful for him, too. I hope this is a lesson we’ll all share for the rest of our lives. If we’re smart, we won’t dare forget it.

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