01 CHOOSE CARDS
Territory and Legend Selection: Players select a Territory and Legend to connect.
Atlas Seminar is a seminar game that gets players (or teams) to connect what they're studying with why they're studying it.
Players make those connections through original creations: dramas, illustrations, recitations, and more.
To play, you need to make 3 kinds of "cards"...
Territories
The material you're studying: stories, poems, maps, speeches, images, artifacts, documents, chapters, scenes. The stuff.
Legends
A concept, claim, theme, pattern, lens, or key idea that helps make sense of the material you're studying.
Ink
The method players use to show the connection (acting, drawing, quoting, etc.)
Then...
- One Ink card is drawn automatically when cards are dealt for a round. The host can redraw it.
- Players (or teams) secretly pick one Territory and one Legend.
- Players make a Map to connect their two cards: a unique artifact that reveals both the content and the key idea.
02 DRAW INK
Ink Draw: When cards are dealt, the game draws one Ink card for all players. The host can redraw it.
03 PRESENT MAPS + VOTE
Sharing and Voting: Players present their Maps, then vote on which Territory and Legend each other Map represents.
04 ROUND RESULTS
| Territories x Legends | The form of a poem is felt to be inevitable. | Poetry relies on figurative language. |
|---|---|---|
| Sonnet 18 | Unmapped | |
| Sonnet 52 | Unmapped | Unmapped |
Results and New Round: Maps that are correctly recognized get added to the Seminar Atlas, and a new round begins.
In an Atlas Seminar, players will...
- pore over their books, searching for evidence.
- test new understandings.
- make arguments without essays.
- create artifacts that you can reuse.
A new humanities-first and human-first format by Nick Santalucia.