The wave 1-4

We are reading a new book in class. It is called The Wave, and it is based on a true story. The main character in the book is Laurie Saunders, she has light-brown hair and an almost permanent smile. When she is nervous, she chews on pens, and her mother told her that someday a plastic shard would lodge in her throat and she would choke on it.  She goes to a school in Palo Alto California called Gordon High.

She also runs the school newspaper. The newspaper is called The Gordon Grapevine and it’s always late, simply because no one ever comes to write it. She is fairly popular, and has a friend named Amy. Amy was getting really bored in French class so Laurie decided to cheer her up. So, she stood at the door, making sure that Amy could see her, but the teacher couldn’t, and she made a series of funny faces. After that, everyone in the classroom, was in hysterics, and the teacher, Mr. Gabondi was furious.

In Laurie’s history class they were watching a movie on the Nazis and how they were putting Jews in rooms then spilling gas in the rooms, and the concentration camp they put Jews in also. Her history teacher Mr.Ross told her and her class about the mad man Adolf Hitler. Hitler was the one telling the Nazis to do all of the bad stuff to the Jews. Hitler was a house painter and then turned to politics after World War One.

After the movie was done class was over. The class was quiet with emotion. Almost everybody left after class but some people stayed a while. Laurie was one of them. This strange boy named Robert Billing who would always fall  asleep in class stayed also. Laurie could not get that picture of the horrid out of her mind.