Weber introduces trench warfare in lines 1-3 and links it to going to the football field and fighting with Mr. Abbot's class in lines 5-7 to engage his students, as explained by Sherry (2016), “Weber's question proposed a reframing of classroom interaction as one in which students could 'talk about something we all know.' But he also suggested to students that their speech would simultaneously refer to a real past event that happened to other people and to a hypothetical present scenario in which the students themselves would be animated as figures” (179). part of his students than Mr. Weber himself. Mr. Weber could have taken the entire class discussion to another level if he had taken a step further using the WAIT method. Lawerence and Crespo (2016), “assume that WAIT can be used by students - independently of IRE/F and without the immediate participation of teachers - to guide their responses to their classmates..."(9). I say this because he lets students ask questions, but doesn't analyze their questions and doesn't offer to include more "food for thought", he makes students repeat their thinking, but then doesn't praise their thinking; responding only with “Okay” (line 49). Students don't talk back to each other, they talk back to please the teacher. Weber ultimately praises the students only generically, saying in line 145 “we have had them like that