QR Challenge: Literary Elements Review

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. 1. A character in a story who is usually the “good guy” or hero.	Protagonist
2. 2. A character in a story who is usually the “bad guy”.	Antagonist
3. 3. This is the problem of the story.	Conflict
4. 4. When you give human characteristics to inhuman objects.	Personification
5. 5. A comparison of unlike things, using “like” or “as.”	Simile
6. 6. A comparison between unlike things.	Metaphor
7. 7. This is the beginning of the plot where we meet the characters; learn about the setting, and the conflict.	Exposition
8. 8. This is the sequence of events that lead to the Climax of the story.	Rising Action
9. 9. This is the first event that begins the Rising Action.	Initiating Conflict
10. 10. This is the most intense part of the story. It is the turning point in the action.	Climax
11. 11. This is when all the excitement begins to slow down. Happens after the Climax.	Falling Action
12. 12. This is where all loose strings are tied up and the story comes to a conclusion.	Resolution
13. 13. Them time and place when a story takes place.	Setting

 

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