QR Challenge: "All Summer in a Day" Literary Devices

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. "I think the sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour." is an example of...	A METAPHOR
2. "But the always awoke to the tatting drum..." uses...	ONOMATOPOEIA
3. "She was an old photograph dusted from an album..." is an example of...	A METAPHOR
4. "But the were running and turning their faces up to the sky and feeling the sun on their cheeks like a warm iron." is an example of...	A SIMILE
5. "The children lay out, laughing, on the jungle mattress and heard it squeak and sigh under them." uses two literary devices. Identify the two that are used.	ONOMATOPOEIA and PERSONIFICATION
6. "They looked at everything and savored everything. Then, wildly, like animals escaped from their caves, they ran and ran in shouting circles." is an example of...	A SIMILE
7. "A boom of thunder startled them, and like leaves before a new hurricane, they tumbled upon each other and ran." uses two literary devices. Identify the two that are used.	ONOMATOPOEIA and SIMILE
8. "Then they closed the door and heard the gigantic sound of the rain falling in tons and avalanches everywhere and forever." is an example of...	HYPERBOLE
9. "They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor." is an example of...	A SIMILE
10. "...and if she spoke at all, her voice would be a ghost." is an example of...	A METAPHOR
11. "Margot stood alone. She was a frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years, and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair." is a quote from our story that uses a simile to create strong imagery for the reader to help them imagine what MArgot looked like. Please take a piece of paper with this quote on it, located below this QR code, and return to your desk and draw what you imagine Margot to look like. Do not draw rain actually washing her color away! Draw what the author is trying to tell you that she really looks like through use of this simile.	ANSWERS MAY VARY

 

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