Blog Day 6

With the new week, we started off as usual with our daily prompt which was: One of your sensory perceptions is heightened, but no one else's seems to be. Afterwards, we spent a little bit watching or reading our individual stuff. During this time I read Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson and was able to get through around 50 pages.

Afterwards, we started building a world together as a class to practice world building. We started out by creating a map of the world, and adding different regions and biomes. We started about by putting a giant crater in the corner of the map, and then going out from there. It was fun seeing everyone bringing their ideas into the map, while also discussing about whether they would fit, and proposing new ideas as well.

Image: Students consider the structure of civilization on Cobe.

In the end we created the planet Cobe, a fantasy style world that was struck by a meteor and has a giant hole taken out it that it also a crater. The meteor contained magic properties and gave people magic abilities.

Once we finished making the map, we split up into groups of two and started working on specific regions of the map. I was partnered up with Tommy, and our region was a grassy plains and hill area similar to the Shire from Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Once we were done working on the physical geography and flora and fauna of it, we gathered a collage of images of what the region would look like and presented it to the class. 

Image: Sayer makes an addition to a geographical map of Cobe.

Once we had gotten the physical geography of our regions down, that was when we added people to them. We then fleshed out the civilization in our regions, and wrote about the different religions, class systems, technology, magic, and much more. We would also collaborate with the other groups to make sure some of the details fit together. 

Once we were done, we would present what we had come up with to the other groups, and they would give us some critique. We did this for every group until the end of the day discussing all our different ideas. 

Today was a good day coming back from the weekend, and the exercises that we did were fun and interesting. I hope that we will continue to flesh out the world that we've created and see where it goes from where it's at right now.