Strategy and Design
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Week One – November 30th - December 4th
Monday – Introduction to class & Playing Blokus
Classwork: Play Blokus or DVONN
Tuesday – Playing Blokus, Gemblo or Fjords
Classwork: Play Blokus, Gemblo, Fjords and/or DVONN
Classwork: Set up an account on boardgamegeek.com
Wednesday – Blog entry #1
Thursday – BGG & What makes a good abstract game
Classwork: BGG: Quickbar, Plays and Ratings
Classwork: Read the description of Abstract Games
Homework: Read J. Mark Thompson’s article “Defining the Abstract”
Friday – Discussing blog entries / Playing Pueblo or Blokus
Week Two – December 7th - December 11th
Monday – Other games with characteristics of abstracts
Classwork: Play Metropolys, Rumis, Blokus 3D, Hey! That’s My Fish, Ingenious, Pueblo, Hive, DVONN or YINSH
Homework: Log your games
Tuesday – Other games with characteristics of abstracts
Classwork: Play Metropolys, Blokus 3D, Hey! That’s My Fish, Ingenious, Pueblo, Hive, DVONN or YINSH
Homework: Log your games
Homework: Write up Blog entry #2
Wednesday – Other games with characteristics of abstracts
Classwork: Play Metropolys, Blokus 3D, Hey! That’s My Fish, Ingenious, Pueblo, Hive, DVONN or YINSH
Homework: Log your games
Thursday – Playing Take It Easy!
Classwork: Play Take it Easy!
Homework: Log your games
Homework: Listen to Joe Peterson’s podcast on abstract games
Friday – Other games with characteristics of abstracts
Classwork: Play Metropolys, Blokus 3D, Hey! That’s My Fish, Ingenious, Pueblo, Hive, DVONN or YINSH
Homework: Log your games
Homework: Write up Blog entry #3
Week Three – December 14th - December 18th
Monday – Teaching/Learning Ingenious, Hey! That’s My Fish, YINSH and DVONN
Classwork: Play Hey! That’s My Fish, Ingenious, DVONN or YINSH
Homework: Log your games
Tuesday – Teaching/Learning Ingenious, Hey! That’s My Fish, YINSH and DVONN
Classwork: Play Hey! That’s My Fish, Ingenious, DVONN or YINSH
Homework: Log your games
Wednesday – Discuss Abstract Games Unit Project
Classwork: Discuss Abstract Games Unit Assessment
Homework: Begin Abstract Games Unit Assessment (due Sunday)
Thursday – Games with characteristics of abstracts
Classwork: Play Metropolys, Blokus 3D, Hey! That’s My Fish, Ingenious, Pueblo, Hive, DVONN or YINSH
Homework: Abstract Games Unit Assessment (due Sunday)
Friday – Games with characteristics of abstracts
Classwork: Play Metropolys, Blokus 3D, Hey! That’s My Fish, Ingenious, Pueblo, Hive, DVONN or YINSH
Homework: Abstract Games Unit Assessment (due Sunday)
Week Four – January 4th - January 8th
Monday - No School
Snow day
Tuesday – No School
Ice day
Wednesday – Puzzle Races
Classwork: Play Flix Mix, Ubongo, Ubongo Extreme and Set
Homework: Log your games
Thursday – Puzzle Races
Classwork: Play Ricochet Robots, Turbo Taxi and Bongo
Homework: Log your games
Friday – Puzzle Races
Classwork: Play Rapidcroco and Carrousel
Homework: Log your games
Week Five – January 11th - January 15th
Monday - Puzzle Races
Classwork: Choose a puzzle race game to play
Homework: Log your games
Tuesday – Work Period
Wednesday – Dice Games – 10,000 and Can't Stop
Classwork: Play Can’t Stop and 10,000
Homework: Log your games
Thursday – Can’t Stop & 10,000
Classwork: Log your games
Homework: Write up your response to Blog entry #15
Homework: Write up your response to Blog entry #16
Friday – No School – Progress Reports
Week Six – January 18th - January 22nd
Monday – Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday – No School
Tuesday – Template for Creating a Rules Summary
Classwork: Discuss Template for Creating a Rules Summary
Classwork: Begin reading rules for Airships
Wednesday – Reading rules for Airships and Yspahan
Classwork: Prepare for tomorrow’s Airships game
Homework: Be completely ready to play Airships tomorrow
Classwork: Discuss rules to Yspahan
Homework: Write up a Rules Summary for Airships
Thursday – Parent Conferences – No School
Friday – Parent Conferences – No School
Week Seven – January 25th - January 29th
Monday – Reading rules for Airships and Yspahan
Classwork: Prepare for tomorrow’s Airships game
Homework: Be completely ready to play Airships tomorrow
Classwork: Discuss rules to Yspahan
Homework: Write up a Rules Summary for Airships
Tuesday – Airships
Classwork: Play Airships
Homework: Log your games
Wednesday – Yspahan
Classwork: Play Yspahan
Homework: Log your games
Thursday – Yspahan or Airships
Classwork: Play Airships or Yspahan
Homework: Log your games
Friday – Yspahan or Airships
Classwork: Play Airships or Yspahan
Homework: Log your games
Week Eight – February 1st - February 5th
Monday – Calculating Probability in Dice Games
Homework: Calculate the probability of achieving a given card from Airships with one of each type of dice
Tuesday – Readings on Dice Games
Classwork: Read my entry on Dice Games
Classwork: Read Rick Holzgrafe's intro & first 6 geeklist entries
Classwork: Read the following excerpts from Dave Shapiro's Dice Fest article: The Fine Line and Traditional Dice Games (including the sections on Traditional and Games with Dice)
Homework: Revise Rules Summary for Airships (due Thursday)
Homework: Blog entry #17 (due Thursday)
Wednesday – Work Period
Classwork: Revise Rules Summary for Airships (due tomorrow)
Homework: Blog entry #17 (due tomorrow)
Homework: Log your games
Thursday – Open Gaming / Work Period
Friday – Open Gaming / Work Period
Week Nine – February 8th - February 12th
Monday – Learn and Play Dominion
Classwork: Play Dominion
Homework: Log your plays
Tuesday – Dominion
Classwork: Play Dominion
Homework: Log your plays
Wednesday – Dominion
Classwork: Play Dominion
Homework: Log your plays
Thursday – Dominion
Classwork: Play Dominion
Homework: Log your plays
Friday – Open Gaming
Week Ten – February 15th - February 19th
Monday – President’s Day – No school
Tuesday – Dominion
Classwork: Discuss Dominion blog posts
Homework: Play Dominion & Log your plays
Wednesday – Probability Work Sample review
Classwork: Notes on Work Sample #3
Homework: Begin Work Sample (due Monday)
Thursday – Dominion
Classwork: Play Dominion or work on Work Sample
Homework: Log your plays
Friday – Dominion
Week Eleven – February 22nd - February 26th
Monday – Ticket to Ride
Tuesday – Ticket to Ride –
Classwork: Play Ticket to Ride
Homework: Log your plays
Wednesday – Ticket to Ride –
Classwork: Play Ticket to Ride
Homework: Log your plays
Homework: Blog Post #22 (due Thursday at the start of class)
Thursday – Ticket to Ride
Classwork: Play Ticket to Ride
Homework: Log your plays
Friday – Ticket to Ride – Juniors on Zoo Field Trip
Classwork: Play Ticket to Ride
Homework: Log your plays
Week Twelve – February 29th - March 4th
Monday – Trick taking games – Tichu and Tarot
Classwork: Learn Tichu or Tarot
Homework: Log your plays
Tuesday – Final project work period / Open gaming
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Wednesday – Final project presentations
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Thursday – Final Exams
Friday – No School - End of Trimester