Werde mit uns zur Leseratte! We will be reading Die Welle - der Roman zum Film by Reinhard Kunert, and will discuss the content of this book as well as inherent grammar and vocabulary. This class is meant for those students who have finished at least the one Intermediate class (B1 Level, or equivalent), and meets up online. The book is available for purchase. Die Welle (The Wave) is a 2008 novel based on the German language film by the same name. Set in modern-day Germany, the story incorporates themes set forth in the original text by Morton Rhue (pen name of Todd Strasser), based on the real-life "Third Wave" experiment conducted by a high school teacher in California in 1967. The book explores themes of authoritarianism, group dynamics, and the dangers of blindly following a leader. The German description translates to: "You mean, a dictatorship would no longer be possible here today?" During a project week, a heated discussion breaks out in the group of the young teacher Rainer Wenger. The students are firmly convinced that they would never fall for dictatorial ideologies like those of the Third Reich. Rainer Wenger does everything he can to prove the opposite to his students in an experiment. Through skillful psychological manipulation, he wants to turn them into mindless recipients of orders. The experiment gets out of control…