5/19/2023 0 Comments Sacajawea by Gloria D. Miklowitz![]() ![]() ![]() The Third Wave has inspired everything from a Canadian musical to an episode of the children’s cartoon “Arthur”-and even a Sweet Valley Twins book, 1995’s It Can’t Happen Here. The experiment got out of hand, of course, leading to both a fictionalized TV movie and a novelization, The Wave, in 1981. Perhaps the experiment that had the greatest impact on ’80s pop culture was “The Third Wave,” a 1967 exercise intended to teach California high school students about the rise of Nazism. (You can watch a short 1983 feature on the Color Game here.) Otero’s “Color Game,” in which students wear armbands whose colors indicate whether they’re upper-class, upper-middle, lower-middle, or lower, is one of many similar classroom experiments in which students take on new identities in the hopes of gaining insight into social dynamics. ![]() But it’s also the premise of a real classroom exercise developed in the late ’70s by Occidental College Professor Ray Otero. Miklowitz’s 1985 young adult novel, The War Between the Classes. ![]() Make sure the artificial hierarchy affects the students’ friendships and grades. Give other students the power to enforce class boundaries and punish those who get ideas above their station. Assign teenagers to different socioeconomic classes and require the lower classes to perform humiliating rituals of obeisance to the upper. ![]()
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