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III – 10/29/2012

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Welcome to Term 2!

Remember, you can exempt your finals this term! You have to have an 80 average in your class and meet the following requirements:

  • Have no more than three absences in Term 2
  • Have recieved no more than five tardies in Term 2 (three tardies = 1 absence)
  • Have not been suspended or been OSS during the school year
  • Have maintained and conduuct grade of an “E”, “S”, or “N” for the term.

Today, we created character sheets – make sure you complete your nature, demeanor, Attributes, and your five R’s.

Lastly, we made the First Day collage. This is in the First Day folder – make sure you open the links in a NEW TAB. Also, make sure that your do either 4 rows and 3 columns, or 3 columns and 4 rows. Make sure you save this and send the saved file to LMS so I can print.

If you did these things, you just earned your first 20 points!

IV – 8/27/2012

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I have English IV classes for 2nd and 3rd block.

Today, we created character sheets. Here is a quick breakdown of what we did and how you can do it:

  • Name – Give yourself a cool pirate nickname
  • Player – That’s you. These two names can be the same.
  • Chronicle – Term 1
  • Nature and Demeanor – Your nature is your true self, your demeanor is that “hat” you wear on campus.  There is a list of archetypes in Game Mechanics in LMS. Read through them and find one that is your NATURE and one that is your DEMEANOR.
  • Concept – What do you want to be seen as in my class? A Vistas Viking? Slacker? Deep Thinker?
  • Age
  • Home Campus
  • Disembark – Projected graduation date
  • Abilities
    • Physical
    • Social
    • Mental

      Find the column that is your strength and distribute 7 dots between the three categories.
      Your middle column gets five dots.
      Your weakest column only gets three dots.

  • Reading, Writing, Conventions, Research, Listening/Speaking, Figure 19 – These are the things that I am required to teach you. For today, give yourself one bubble in Vocabulary
  • Compass – These will determine what you roll if I catch you on your cell phone
  • The R’s – You are responsible for four of the five R’s. As a teacher, I make the curriculum relevant. You have ten dots to grade yourself in the remaining four R’s
  • Health 0 Your health is your conduct. Stay healthy.

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  • Merits, Flaws, and Achievements – These are “super powers” you can earn
  • XP Sheet – you can keep track of your experience (grades) here.

After that, we did the First Day survey, which can be found here.

We then created Edmodo accounts. Get the class code from me.

We closed the class with a silly number “game” where we had to circle numbers in numerical order. Riley then taught us a “trick” to help us do better the second time around.

The Character Sheet and the Survey will be easy ways to earn XP. Simple!

III – 8/27/2012

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The good news? I only have English III first block, so when we lose time to Vistas Visits or slow buses, I don’t have to try and rush us to catch up with my other classes.

The bad news? We lost about 40 minutes of class today.

Today, we created character sheets. Here is a quick breakdown of what we did and how you can do it:

  • Name – Give yourself a cool pirate nickname
  • Player – That’s you. These two names can be the same.
  • Chronicle – Term 1
  • Nature and Demeanor – Your nature is your true self, your demeanor is that “hat” you wear on campus.  There is a list of archetypes in Game Mechanics in LMS. Read through them and find one that is your NATURE and one that is your DEMEANOR.
  • Concept – What do you want to be seen as in my class? A Vistas Viking? Slacker? Deep Thinker?
  • Age
  • Home Campus
  • Disembark – Projected graduation date
  • Abilities
    • Physical
    • Social
    • Mental

      Find the column that is your strength and distribute 7 dots between the three categories.
      Your middle column gets five dots.
      Your weakest column only gets three dots.

  • Reading, Writing, Conventions, Research, Listening/Speaking, Figure 19 – These are the things that I am required to teach you. For today, give yourself one bubble in Vocabulary
  • Compass – These will determine what you roll if I catch you on your cell phone
  • The R’s – You are responsible for four of the five R’s. As a teacher, I make the curriculum relevant. You have ten dots to grade yourself in the remaining four R’s
  • Health 0 Your health is your conduct. Stay healthy.

Back Page

  • Merits, Flaws, and Achievements – These are “super powers” you can earn
  • XP Sheet – you can keep track of your experience (grades) here.

After that, we did the First Day survey, which can be found here.

The Character Sheet and the Survey will be easy ways to earn XP. Simple!

3/26/2012

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It’s the first class day, and I am so happy to meet all these new landlubbers!

Yesterday was pretty simple – we filled out out character sheets (that’s the yellow sheet of paper). There is a PowerPoint in Riley’s First Day Folder on LMS.

We also did a survey on LMS and a message board on LMS – make sure you answer a question and also make a meaningful response to someone else’s post. If all you do is put a smiley face, it won’t count. This is all located in the First Day Folder.

Make sure that you turn the Character Sheet in the “Old School Dro Box” so that it gets graded.

Riley does a point system – the most points we will have in class will be 1500, so you can always figure out what you need to earn credit for the class.

1/17/2012

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Wow. Riley has some huge classes this year! Today was pretty easy – we started off by taking a survey in LMS – you can find it in the First Day folder – So You Wanna be  Pirate.

Then, she talked about how she is running her classroom as a roleplaying game – she won’t give “grades” – she’ll give experience points for you to level. She’s also going to give out what every pirate wants – BOOTY! Well, Booty Cards, that is. She let us know that as long as we do out work in class that we have nothing to fear – except her smelly feet, that is. Basically, her class is time management – use it wisely!

We did a character sheet – we talked about archetypes, nature and demeanor, and rated ourselves. You’ll need to print these bad boys from LMS, but they are there. Just make sure to print back and front.

After we did that, we did a Matching Game over five words that we learned today: Martyr, Curmudgeon, Architect, Conniver, and Deviant. If you weren’t here, Riley has a few copies left over, and you can also print this from LMS.

We didn’t get all of our work done today, so let’s make sure that we hustle tomorrow! Also, she’ll be looking for other people to take over Scribes to earn extra credit!

Arrr!