Hsin-chou Josephine Huang
ntoufreshman@gmail.com
Class: 大一英文S
Freshman English
Spring 2013
Digital storytelling worksheet #2
Name: 張致詮
Number: 00157106
Journal #2
1. Desired topic: Guild Wars 2 Human History
2. Search Engines: Google
3. Keywords: Guild Wars 2
4. URL: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Human
5. Process of finding your desired topic:
Looking for the game, Guild Wars 2, on google. Then, searching for the information
of human history.
6. Answer the following question:
a. Who: (What are the characters in the story?)
Humans, Charr who is the race in Tyria.
b. What: (What happened in the story?)
War, horrible famine, and great wave.
c. When: (When did the story happen?)
1070AE~ 1219AE which is the calendar in Guild Wars 2.
d. Where: (Where did the story happen?)
Tyria.
e. How: (How did the story happen?)
Because of the conflict between human and Charr, centaurs, bandits.
7. Write in your own summary (100-200 words).
Guild Wars 2 is a online game in the US. The story happens in Tyria. There were
many races in this world such as human, Asura, Charr, Norn, and Sylvari. In the past,
human was the strongest race in Tyria. Because of the war with Charr and other
disaster, human began weakening. Unfortunately, human lost their capital, Lion's
Arch. Divinity's Reach is human new capital, also the last line of defence. In order to
the future of human, they had to stick and protected Divinity's Reach from enemies'
attack.
8. Vocabulary and phrases learned.
Span(v.)跨越, falter(v.)衰退, decline(v.)(n.)下降；減少, tenuous(a.)稀薄的,
grasp(n.)支配, unleash(v.)解除...的束縛, fortress(n.)堡壘, fist(n.)支配,
embark(v.)著手；從事, tyranny(n.)專制, isolationist(a.)孤立主義的,
famine(n.)饑荒, accompany(v.)伴隨, awakening(n.)覺醒的, coastal(a.)海岸的,
centaur(n.)半人馬
9. Use semantic mapping software to outline the story.
10. Total time spent in doing this assignment: ____60____ minutes
11. Reflection:
Hsin-chou Josephine Huang
ntoufreshman@gmail.com
Freshman English
Spring 2013
a. Why did you choose this topic?
Because this game's story is great and interesting.
b. Does this story remind you anything you have experienced before?
Sometime I face much difficulty like the condition of human in Guild Wars 2, I can
insist and never give up.
c. What is the most impressive plot in this story?
The humans' patience make me impressive.
d. What have you learned from this story? How does this story provide a model
for you to compose your own story?
I learn many vocabularies and methods of writing, and they will be help for me to
compose my story.
Please save the word file as 48_00181053_黃安億_journal 2.
Save the semantic map as 48_00181053_黃安億_journal 2_map
and send them to ntoufreshman@gmail.com with the same subject line.
The deadline is March 18 (Monday) 8 pm.
Good luck!
Best
Josephine
Source:
1. Semantic mapping tool: text2mindmap http://www.text2mindmap.com/
2. Awesome stories: http://www.awesomestories.com/biographies
3. Digital story archives: http://blogs.acu.edu/learningstudio/digital-storytellingarchive/
4. Ted.com personal narratives/inspiring stories
http://www.ted.com/talks/james_cameron_before_avatar_a_curious_boy.html