Week 1: July 19

Download Final Fantasy 6 here. You need to complete the FF 6 Questions before you can move on to writing an email to one character.

Today, you will be writing an email to one of the characters you have met. You can choose a character from Final Fantasy 1, 4, or 6. Open and make a copy of the Character Email.

Week 1: July 18

Today, I want you to finish the Creating and Practicing Dialogue document from yesterday. You can find it in your documents or drive folder in your Gmail.

After that, please download Final Fantasy 4 here. In this game, you do not choose your own characters like in Final Fantasy 1. In FF4, there is great emphasis on story and the personality of each character.

Before you start playing Final Fantasy 4, I want you to open the FF4 Questions document.

Week 1: July 17

We still need to finish the comparison paragraph at the bottom of yesterday's Quests, Objectives, and Goals document. Please open your Google Documents/Drive folder in your Gmail to finish that paragraph. Take at least 20 minutes to write as much as you can.

Next, we will be looking at creating and practicing dialogue.

Finally, we will be doing a scavenger hunt with vocabulary from Final Fantasy.

Week 1: July 16

This week, we will be talking about quests, objectives, and goals.

We will be playing Final Fantasy. You can download an emulator to play the game here. You can download the game itself here.

Week 4-3: July 12

Your final quest

Good luck!

Week 4-3: July 11

Week 4-1: July 9

Welcome to Week 4 of EtG.

This week, we will be playing World of Warcraft. You can sign-up for and download the starter edition, which lets you play up to level 20, by clicking here.

Before we start playing, I want to look at video games more generally. They are popular and played all over the world, and millions of hours are spent playing games each year. Researcher Jane McGonigal is a game designer who thinks we can apply our love of games to real-world problems. Watch her TED talk video here. Before you start watching the video, open up this McGonigal Google document so that you can take notes and consider a few discussions questions.

Before the end of the class, you will be making a one-minute presentation. You will need to have a main idea, one or more examples, and one or more reasons. Please ask for help you need it!

Week 3-3: July 5

This is the last day for playing Mass Effect 2, working on the comprehension exercise, and writing a blog post about Mass Effect. First, we will be watching a video and talking about emotions in Mass Effect.

I will add up your EXP at the end of the day, so please work hard with your partner to finish the comprehension exercise. You can start playing Mass Effect 3 if you like. I have added some questions to the comprehension exercise.

Next week, we will be playing World of Warcraft. The download is long, so please download and try it on your computer this weekend. You will need to make an account and then download the game.

Week 3 Leaderboard:

1. Byte. 1425 EXP. Level 5
2. Junghwan. 900 EXP. Level 4
3. Areli. 875 EXP. Level 4
4. Abdulmajeed. 625 EXP. Level 4
5. Risa. 625 EXP. Level 4
6. Alfonso. 575 EXP. Level 3
7. Antonio. 575 EXP. Level 3

Week 3-2: July 4

Today, we will be continuing our work on the comprehension exercise. If you played Mass Effect 2 yesterday, you can play it again today, but you must focus on the questions.


Before we start playing, I would like to look at two different types of role-playing games: Japanese and Western. Have a look at this document

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Week 3-1: July 3

Welcome to Week 3 of EtG! The games in this week and the next week require faster computers, so it is very important that you find a partner or small group to work with this week. There are also parts of these games, Mass Effect 2/3 and Dragon Age 2, with shooting and moving. You will need a mouse to play the games this week as well.

This week we will be talking about types of role-playing games and how games try to make us feel emotions like happiness, sadness, and frustration.

You can find the "How to" document for Week 3 here. You can find the comprehension exercise that we will be working on here.

Check if your computer can run the games!