Settings for Stories

Settings for Stories

11-13 yrs old

14-18 yrs old

Digital Literacy

Reading and Writing

Inspired by 3 Minecraft biomes, players explore the possibilities of setting in narrative writing.

Submitted By: NWP Network

July 16, 2020

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Skills

Communication
Creativity

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Learning Objectives

Players identify the connection between setting and story by asking questions and developing story ideas in 3 different settings.
Students imagine world building possibilities in different Minecraft biomes.
Students use movie trailers to inspire story ideas and worldbuilding possibilities.

Guiding Ideas

How can the varied biomes in Minecraft inspire detailed, imaginative story ideas?
How might Minecraft support fiction writing and world building?
What inspiration can we draw from world building done by authors or movie directors?

Student Activities

Players use a note-catcher on Google docs to make notes as they tour three biomes.
Players use the four in-game settings they experience to identify writing opportunities and world building possibilities.
Players build to reflect on Minecraft as a site of prototyping during world building.

Performance Expectations

Students make connections between the biomes they visit and the story possibilities they sketch.
Students can distinguish between storytelling and world building.
Students build in the game to illustrate their ideas for telling a story or building a world.

Skills

Communication
Creativity

External References

Setting for story possibilities note-catcher

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