Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix 2: Current events

About Standards
Detailed practice
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
science fantasy
worldbuilding
setting
Phoenix
S F Said
sci-fantasy
expositional news broadcast
narrative devices
newscast
character reactions
visual description
spectacle
establishing context
project
Purpose
Deliver world building exposition through the narrative device of a newscast.
Description
In this lesson we have fun with one of the great storytelling tropes: the expositional news broadcast. We model a passage from Phoenix in which a newscast gives us some quick worldbuilding info through a broadcast about background politics. This is a technically easy lesson; the challenge is in imagining a coherent science fantasy world.
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