QR Challenge: Story Elements War of the Wall

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. What was the setting of War of The Wall?	A small African American community in the South
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3. 2. What was the main conflict in the War of the Wall?	The children were unhappy that their wall was being painted by a strange lady
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5. 3. What impact did the setting have on the characters?	The children were possessive of and ready to defend the wall because it was IN their neighborhood.
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7. 4. What was the CLIMAX of the story the War of the Wall?	The community sees the mural and it reveals that it is dedicated to the people in the neighborhood.
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9. 5. Why is the fact that the wall is dedicated to the people in the community ironic?	The reader and the people in the story do not expect that to happen.
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11. 6. What about the character of the painter lady contributes to the community distrust in her?	The Painter Lady is not polite, does not eat their food, and does not explain to them ahead of time why she is painting the wall.
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13. 7. Themes that can be inferred from the text include.	Sometimes first impressions are not always right. Don't judge a book by its cover.
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15. 8. When an author writes in a way that shows how characters speak, based on where they live or their social status then they are using what technique to reveal more about their characters?	What a character says, dialect, and this is a type of indirect characterization.
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17. 9. What moment was the climax of the story; the point of greatest suspense when the characters actually experience their learning?	When the mural is revealed.
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19. 10.How is the conflict in the story resolved?	The community sees that the mural is dedicated to them and in memory of the Painter Ladies' cousin, one of their community members who died in the war.
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