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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). 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. Cubberley High School history class in Palo Alto, California.
Wave: Life and Memories after the Tsunami is a memoir by the Sri Lankan educator Sonali Deraniyagala about the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was first published in 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf . [ 3 ]
Ron Jones (born 1941) is an American writer and formerly a teacher in Palo Alto, California.He is best known for his classroom exercise called "The Third Wave" and the book he wrote about the event, which inspired the made-for-TV movie The Wave and other works, including a theatrical film in 2008.
The Wave is a made-for-TV movie directed by Alex Grasshoff, based on The Third Wave experiment put on by teacher Ron Jones to explain to his students how the German populace could accept the actions of the Nazi regime. [1] It debuted October 4, 1981, and aired again almost two years later as an ABC Afterschool Special.
In 2010, Jones staged a musical called The Wave, written with some of the students in the class. [12] The events were adapted into a non-musical stage play in 2011 by Joseph Robinette and Ron Jones. In 2020, a Netflix miniseries called We Are the Wave premiered in Germany. The show is about high school students, and their own activism.
Maximilian Mauff as Kevin, an upper-class student who clashes with The Wave at first until he joins the group for social reasons as he loses his status. Jacob Matschenz as Dennis, a student who comes from the GDR. He becomes a member of The Wave, like most of his classmates. Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow as Ferdi; Tim Oliver Schultz as Jens; Amelie ...
We Are the Wave (German 'Wir sind die Welle') is a German coming-of-age drama television series that is loosely based on the 1981 novel The Wave by Todd Strasser. [1] The series premiered on Netflix on 1 November 2019.
The Waves is a 1931 novel by English novelist Virginia Woolf.It is critically regarded as her most experimental work, [1] consisting of ambiguous and cryptic soliloquies spoken mainly by six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis. [2]