The Wave Quarterly Experiment

The Wave Quarterly Experiment

Mrs. Schwarz

Poll

In your opinion could something like slavery, or the holocaust happen again today?

• yes, it's possible

• no, we're beyond that level of oppression in 2021

• I'm not sure.

Objectives

• To explore human psychology, mob mentality, authoritarianism

• To define and distinguish what a scientific abstract is and how one is organized

• To define and read/analyze a social experiment.

Necessary Vocabulary

• Scientific Abstract - a written summary of an experiment, broken into AIM, BACKGROUND, METHOD, FINDINGS, SUMMARY and LIMITATIONS

• Authoritarian - favoring STRICT obedience to an authority, generally in terms of government, expending the individual in favor of the community

• Ethics - Concerning moral principles, what is "right" vs what is "wrong" generally speaking.

Viewing Focus

Begin to consider how this school experiment might have LASTING effects on the teacher and the children involved.

Viewing Focus

Is this relevant today? What lessons can we learn, in general, from the findings of this experiment?

Viewing Focus

What was the PURPOSE of the experiment?

What were the FINDINGS of the experiment.

What were the ETHICAL complications of the experiment?

Reading Focus

• Consider the main/central idea of the text

• Consider HOW the teacher was able to convince his students to engage in these behaviors.

• How is the writing organized? Could you summarize it if asked? 5 Ws......1-2 sentences.

Background Video - Quarterly

What parallels can you draw between The Wave and this

Quarterly!

• Review organization of scientific abstract

• Review role of ethics in relation to social experiments

• Review text structures and be able to summarize a text or explain its organization.