Tricks+of+the+Trade

Students - like everyone - are feeling the economic pinch! In order to be able to start getting enough gold for gear and ability training, students will need to develop a profession. Professions in WOW fall into two main categories - Gathering and Production. Gathering professions have the greatest ability at low levels to generate funds, so we will encourage students to select one of the 3 gathering professions. In addition, we will explain the secondary professions of cooking, fishing and first aid.
 * Seminole County Public Schools**
 * WOW in School**
 * **Lesson Plan: Tricks of the Trade** ||
 * **Background:**

The introduction of professions will eventually lead to our economics lessons, where students will learn to use the auction house and learn about supply and demand.

Today also will move the guild discussion forward, hopefully selecting or coming close to selecting a guild name. From there we will discuss guild leadership elections. || Having a profession that is useful to a community is a source of economic stability. || Students will select a profession and begin gathering herbs, ore or leather in order to sell the items in the auction house. ||
 * **Understanding to be Developed:**
 * **Evidence of Understanding:**
 * **Lesson Outline:**


 * Preparation -**


 * Create a Professions guide.
 * Bring new Hero's Reputation charts.
 * Accept weekly progress forms that are not perfect! Make clear that the next one must improve.
 * Make sure copies of the Lorekeeper's Stormwind Quest are available for new students.
 * Have WOW music ready.
 * 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.
 * Post a new Dungeon Sign Up chart!
 * Prepare a professions chart.
 * Redistribute Guild Name charts from the previous week.

1. Have music playing 2. Students can grab a snack. 3. Students sit where they would like to sit and log in to Blackboard 4. Take the Guild Survey 5. Once all students have filled out the survey we will examine the results and call forward those students interested in leading. They will help us determine 3 possible Guild Names and present these for a vote.
 * I. Welcome Heroes**

6. Hand out Professions sheet. Have a talk about the three gathering professions and how using these will help them to make gold in the game. 6. Also discuss first aid. 7. Have students select a gathering profession and train it.

QUESTING at level 10 goes to WESTFALL.

Plan that THURSDAY will be Ragefire Chasm. Guild Elections will be Thursday or Tuesday of next week

__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 select and train a profession in preparation for entering the game economy. Students will select a guild name. ||
 * Lorekeeper Reflections
 * Lorekeeper Reflections
 * Lorekeeper Reflections
 * Lorekeeper Reflections

//Lorekeeper Lewis// We have a guild name!!!! LEGION OF HEROES I'm really proud of students for selecting such an appropriate name. Of course, we very nearly ended up with Fierce Fire Monkeys, and an award for most creative went to Chicken Little Has Wings. :)

Students were very excited to learn about professions that could earn them some gold, and many have chosen herbing, skinning or mining. We were thinking of covering the Auction House on Thursday, but I think we might put it off until Tuesday to give more students time to get their profession started.

We will finally get our group into the dungeon on Thursday!

//Lorekeeper Camilleri//

//Lorekeeper Coleman//__ ||