Dragon Play: A Wings of Fire Inspired Role Play

Wings of Fire fans are passionate about this series!  It activates creativity and imaginative thinking. We want to create our own characters and tell our own stories...and that's exactly what we're going to do!

In this ongoing class we'll be working collaboratively to forge our own Dragon World, a world in which all kinds of dragons can unite.
And inside of this Dragon World each student will create their own characters to role play as, interacting with other students characters or telling their own story alongside the rest of the class.  

Students will decide what kind of Dragon they are creating.  
The name, what they look like, their abilities, weaknesses, personality, backstory and more.
We will have a Google Slides document that is accessible only by students in the class that is where they will create their characters.  There is a slide template for them to use or they can get creative.  I am able to help create slides for anyone who doesn't know how, but in my experience the students pick it up quickly and enjoy doing it by themselves.  

The roleplay will happen inside of a Nearpod collaboration board.  
At the beginning of class, students will open an additional website and go to join.nearpod.com.  
Each week at the beginning of class the teacher will give the students the Nearpod code to join live.
New learners will be given a tour of the kingdom and introduced to the current story.  They can choose to work on their character development during class or jump right in to role play and figure out their character as they go.

Students are not required to have their camera on for the entire class (only when they first come on so we can meet them).  (Often being on the Nearpod will automatically turn cameras off if the student is running the Nearpod and the Zoom on the same device).

Students are encouraged to talk but I have many students in similar classes who interact heavily in the class through the collaboration board and choose not to speak.   

Students are welcomed and encouraged to share their original stories and original artwork.