#adventure 1

[retrocgads]

UK 1982

[kmp78]

I always make new year´s resolutions and rarely manage to follow through...

What can I say, I´m a weak person! 😫🙈

Making commitments such as “go to the gym once a week” just seem to be a non-started for me as I never bother actually doing it. 🤷🏼‍♀️

However this year I made a resolution I think I´m gonna have a much better success rate at!

My resolution: GO ON AN ADVENTURE ONCE A MONTH.

Maybe even more often if the opportunity presents itself, but at least one time every month an adventure in some form “must” be undertaken.

And so, my 1st adventure of the year is taking place today, and the destination is my old fave...

ESTONIA! 🚢🇪🇪

So yeah I shall be overseas for today, searching for new wonders on the magnificent and ancient cobble stone alleys of Tallinn... 👀📸

Oh and eating. Deffffffoooooo eating! Already booked me a brunch reservation for the ship´s buffet.... ehheheheheeee. 😈🤤

I´ll post clips/pics on IG, and post normal messages here too, at least some of the time and when I can! 😉

It´s only a day trip anyway so back to normal proceedings this evening! ✌

[you-are-an-adventurer]

Let’s start an adventure

You are an adventurer, you’ve been caught in a snowstorm and are seeking shelter.

You spot a cave through the snow and hurry to safety.

Its dark inside...

What do you do?

[retrocgads]

UK 1982

[chunslibrary]

"Takamia saw CPOP1's fatass outperform his entire group when Teledio ambushed them and decided that his reasoning for allowing CPOP1 to look after Kai Mayori was because he "killed a monster in under a minute"?????????"

-Clone5

[theforevermaincharacter]

I just woke up in the woods with a talking backpack, what did i Take last night?

[sufferlessgrowmore]

It’s All Coming Together: Adventure 1 Nears Its Close

Well, this sure has been a week.

After a rocky start, I think I managed to make it through a solid week of teaching, planning and grading, only missing out on some meditating toward the end and some nightly reading (I’m still choosing what book to revisit--Vote now on your phones!). My adventurers are about to finish Adventure 1 and I have a few things to prepare for to make sure we tie things up nicely--and set ourselves up for even better adventuring going forward!

Some main happenings this week--I went through Unit 0 with The Nutritious Napper and The Bodacious Bookworm. Given I wasn’t actually there to teach the Guided Notes on SuperBetter, the unit felt a little anemic by comparison to how it seemed the first time around. I don’t necessarily want it to be longer, but I might choose a different chapter to read from Mindset, or maybe pair the Passage Response Reflection with a different text entirely the next time I teach it.

The Relentless Wordsmith and I worked through a few selections from The Canterbury Tales, and I think having a way of taking notes while we read is going to be important in general. We’ve taken notes on nearly everything we’ve read and it’s helped him to do better on his homework, so I shouldn’t let that stuff slide. The Studious Scholar and I are reading Death of a Salesman, which I actually haven’t read until now (I remember reading All My Sons in college, which is not the same thing.) Meanwhile, the Henotic Health Advisor started writing an original short story involving anthropomorphic rodents and interspecies warfare! All in all, our last few lessons seem to be writing themselves.

Less clear is where things are going in Quarter 2. For our next Adventure, I have a few goals for what I want to accomplish. The first goal is mechanical, and also tied to pacing. I want to make sure that, at least one day a week, my students get some time to revise earlier work. This means I have to give more feedback overall, but the main purpose behind this, gamefully speaking, is to give them more opportunities to earn points to Openness and Discipline. These two traits, along with Bravery, have been lacking much purpose in the current design of my teaching and learning game. They are, like the main attributes, accumulative in nature, but rather than representing a skill that can be improved upon, they are more like badges of honor, marks of going above and beyond with assignments and responding to feedback. Therefore, as I’ve discussed with my students already, in the next Adventure, Openness, Discipline and Bravery will become currency to be spent on bonuses relating to homework, quizzes and other things I’m still working out.

In order to make this work, I need to be more specific and consistent with what I award these points for. Bravery has been under utilized thus far, and I haven’t worked out exactly what I should qualify as a Brave act. The main candidate I have in mind has to do with the less-assisted parts of the writing process. If students spend time out of class doing a substantial amount of writing, venturing into the unknown, I can reward them not just with positive sub-deadline grades, but Bravery. In hindsight, I could have given the Relentless Wordsmith quite a bit of Bravery for his ability to maintain a consistent pace during his Beowulf essay writing process. On the other hand, the Studious Scholar may have missed out on Bravery but might have been incentivized to get more of his work done in a timely manner if the reward for accumulating Bravery was good enough. Lots of things to figure out, but I’ve got time.

Another goal I have for Adventure 2 is to do something interesting with the Writing Prompt routine I have in place. At first Weekly Goals and Narrative Reflections were the name of the game and generally went fine, but I feel like as time has gone on the prompts have become repetitive and as a result, uninspiring. To increase opportunities for creative expression (and thus Magic gains) I want to make my writing prompts more varied and demanding. Granted, we will still probably keep them to about 7 minutes in length, so I don’t want them to be too elaborate. It will be a delicate balance to strike.

There’s still one more week remaining in Adventure 1, and I’m determined to finish things strong--and maintain some momentum as we move into Adventure 2! I’ll lay out my plan of attack on Sunday.

Life will pass through, keep being you.

Sincerely, MM