Sample Bridging
"In my day the Hitler Youth was voluntary, but there was still that push to belong so that you didn't stick out from the crowd. Automatically my friends knew I was different. On Saturday there was no school, but those that didn't belong to Hitler Youth had to attend. We had to get up in front of the class and tell why we didn't join the Hitler Youth. You could say because your father said "no", but then you cast a bad light on him. And then we had to march through the town.
I don't know how long that went on, but then they made it law, so I became a member. Father said, "You can join. I can't help that, but you won't wear the uniform!" His attitude almost killed me again. I wasn't one of them."
Make a connection between the quote and the poem. Support your answer with information from the story.
Part #1: Explain what the quote means.
The information above taught me about the experience of a little girl who was a member of the Hitler Youth movement. I learned how she resisted joining at first but was treated as an outsider and made to “march through the town.” The girl eventually was forced to join, despite her father’s objections. She lost her ability to make her own decision as to whether or not to become a member.
Part #2: Connect the poem to the quote through the use of sufficient examples.
This type of isolation and intimidation can be seen in the Wave. At first, the Wave was a voluntary experiment that students from Mr. Ross’s class could choose to participate in. Nobody was forced to join. However, as time went on, those who did not join the wave or opposed it were ostracized and treated differently. For example, Laurie was a free thinking girl who decided not to join The Wave. As the story progressed, Laurie began to feel isolation and intimidation. At one point she was told that she could not enter the bleachers until she gave the salute. Then, after writing an article against the Wave, the word “traitor” was written on her locker in red. She was made to feel like an outsider and eventually was threatened by her own boyfriend due to her noncompliance.
Part #3: Explain the connection and state what it has helped you understand.
The Hitler Youth movement gradually took over the lives of the youth who joined and terrorized the youth that did not. Similar to the Hitler Youth movement, the Wave began to take over the school, turning believers against non-believers and resulting in violence. This shows me how similar to the Hitler Youth movement certain elements of the Wave actually had become. If the Wave continued it could have turned into something similar to the horror that beheld Nazi Germany. I can now see that nobody can promise that “it” will never happen again.
Final Answer
The information above taught me about the experience of a little girl who was a member of the Hitler Youth movement. I learned how she resisted joining at first but was treated as an outsider and made to “march through the town.” The girl eventually was forced to join, despite her father’s objections. She lost her ability to make her own decision as to whether or not to become a member.
This type of isolation and intimidation can be seen in the Wave. At first, the Wave was a voluntary experiment that students from Mr. Ross’s class could choose to participate in. Nobody was forced to join. However, as time went on, those who did not join the wave or opposed it were ostracized and treated differently. For example, Laurie was a free thinking girl who decided not to join The Wave. As the story progressed, Laurie began to feel isolation and intimidation. At one point she was told that she could not enter the bleachers until she gave the salute. Then, after writing an article against the Wave, the word “traitor” was written on her locker in red. She was made to feel like an outsider and eventually was threatened by her own boyfriend due to her noncompliance.
The Hitler Youth movement gradually took over the lives of the youth who joined and terrorized the youth that did not. Similar to the Hitler Youth movement, the Wave began to take over the school, turning believers against non-believers and resulting in violence. This shows me how similar to the Hitler Youth movement certain elements of the Wave actually had become. If the Wave continued it could have turned into something similar to the horror that beheld Nazi Germany. I can now see that nobody can promise that “it” will never happen again.