Kids+Have+Class

Students during the previous session began to "hit the wall." No longer can they mash buttons or rush headlong into a battle without using strategy, knowing how to play their class, or work effectively as a group. Students felt frustrated and spent more time dead than alive, and yet could not see the relationship between mashing the Auto-Attack button on and off and dying. :-)
 * Seminole County Public Schools**
 * WOW in School**
 * **Lesson Plan: Kids Have Class** ||
 * **Background:**

This lesson will focus on teaching each class how to use their spells and attacks effectively.

On a separate note, Hero Reputation gains have been halted by a lack of sufficient progress in their school classes. A discussion will be held on "Scholarship" for all heroes. || Being effective means strategically utilizing your abilities. || Students will develop a "rotation" that effectively uses their abilities. ||
 * **Understanding to be Developed:**
 * **Evidence of Understanding:**
 * **Lesson Outline:**


 * Preparation -**


 * Students will be grouped by class, so have character signs ready. Have character signs for new players.
 * Bring notebooks and labels for new students.
 * Make a list of students that need to turn in their weekly progress form.
 * Create a "toolbar" exploration guide and have two copies for each student - one for current set up and one for their new set up.
 * Make sure copies of the Lorekeeper's Stormwind Quest are available.
 * Have Vaultkeeper standing outside Stormwind bank with a selection of pets and bags.
 * Bring a copy of Recount on pen drives to add to the WOW folder on each computer.
 * Check the leveling progress of each Hero.
 * Check the Bb post for Respect.
 * Have WOW music ready for noise control.
 * Teach students how to use Print Screen to take a screen shot and paste it in PowerPoint using Alt-Tab. Then save the PPT into a folder on the server. - save this until next week.
 * Snacks available.
 * Repost the Dungeon Sign up sheet and consider adding a second sheet.

1. Have music playing 2. Students can grab a snack. 3. Students sit assigned and grouped by class. 4. Students may log in to the game and wait for a lorekeeper to work with their group. 5. While they are waiting, they are to fill in their Toolbar sheetand can continue to quest.
 * I. Welcome Heroes**

3. Lorekeepers will meet with each class as a group.

Questions

1. How are things going? What do you like? What gets you frustrated right now? a. Why are you dying? i. Abilities ii. Aggro range / paying attention to surroundings (including camera angle) iii. Grouping effectively b. Strategies for living i. Use your abilities wisely ii. Stay on roads

iii. Watch your environment and your aggro range iv. Fight smart and in groups v. RUN

Let’s focus on the first type of problem – Using your abilities.

2. What does your bar currently look like? Do you have anything on bars 2-6?

3. When you attack, what do you currently do? What else MIGHT you try?

4. Go through each spell (on bar or in spell book, including those that need to be trained)– FILL OUT CHART ON TOOLBAR EXERCISE 2.

5. They won’t know how much damage a spell does, but illustrate the combat log. When they return to their questing, they will use the spell at least twice and average how much damage it does.

6. Discuss cast times – when to use long casts, when to use instant casts. Discuss Global Cooldown.

7. With all that – damage, cast times, cost, etc – what are advantages and disadvantages of spells? Which should be used first? Later? Last?

8. What might be some good rotations to try?

9. Put your spells/attacks in the order of your preferred rotation.

10. Practice different approaches during the rest of your quests today.

11. Scholarship discussion.

__Lorekeepers will check off progress toward becoming an initiate. Students that level will earn 3 bags. Other students will be counseled for what they need to do to level.__ __Collect the progress sheets signed by teachers. Students that have met all requirements for NOVICE level will earn a pet of their choice.__ ||




 * Wrap Up / Evaluation**

Students will have new spell rotations to try and be able to demonstrate effective use of their abilities. ||
 * Lorekeeper Reflections
 * Lorekeeper Reflections
 * Lorekeeper Reflections
 * Lorekeeper Reflections

//Lorekeeper Lewis// This lesson went very well, although the students were reluctant at first to stop playing long enough to really look at their abilities and think about a good strategy. All students were better by the end of the session, and there was significantly less angst in the room than on Tuesday!

Our first group of 5 is now ready for a dungeon, so next week will be interesting!

//Lorekeeper Camilleri//

//Lorekeeper Coleman//__ ||