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David Collins. Ben Ross is a young, popular history teacher whose devotion to his students is sincere, if sometimes obsessive. Ross wants to engage with the things he’s teaching his students, not just spew facts at them—and so when the time comes to study the Holocaust, Ross struggles to come up with a way to explain the atrocities of the ...
Ben Ross. Young, creative, and enthusiastic, Mr. Ross is Gordon High School’s “cool teacher,” and his major character traits make him a likely candidate for students to follow. That students also consider him to be “charismatic” is especially telling: The trait is often used to describe cult leaders and dictators such as Adolf Hitler ...
October 4, 1981. ( 1981-10-04) 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 ...
- Account by Ron Jones
- T.A.T. Communications Company
- Alexander Grasshoff
- Bruce Davison (Ben Ross)
A crowded room full of students obeying his every command, the Wave symbol he'd created posted all over the school, even a bodyguard. (15.78) Luckily, Ben is coming to terms with this. But, he isn't doing it alone. He has help from other members in the real communities he belongs to: school, neighborhood, and home.
Christy Ross. Ben Ross’s wife and Gordon High’s music and choir teacher. As The Wave gains momentum, Christy becomes a voice of reason, continually warning her husband not to let his experiment get out of control. Brian Ammon. A senior and Gordon High’s starting quarterback. Brian is smart but doesn’t work hard in school.
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The Wave Summary. Laurie Saunders is a senior at Gordon High School. She is popular and studious and works as editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, The Gordon Grapevine. She is frustrated because although she works hard, the rest of her staff is very lazy and the newspaper always puts out late issues. Meanwhile, Ben Ross is having similar ...
