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
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
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!
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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1. 1. Who are the 5 main Characters? | Jean ValJean, Javert, Fantine, Cossette, Marius. | 2. 2. Explain the 5 moments of the story in short (basic storyline): Exposition, Rising action, climax, resolution. | Javert and Jean ValJean character and situation in France is explained, Jean ValJean changes and starts a new life with justice trying to make amends to Fantine, persecution of Javert and Cossette from Javert, Rebellion in France, ValJean dies and Cossette and Marius stay together. | 3. 3. Explain the antagonistic nature of Javert and Valjean | Javert represents blind Justice, Valjean represents a humanistic point of view of fairness. | 4. 4. Why is Fantine forced to sell all her body? | to pay for Cossette's bills. | 5. 5. In which year does the story begin? | 1815 | 6. 6. When did the French revolution start? | 1789 | 7. 7. Why do we observe social unrest during the time frame of Les Miserables? | There was a time after the revolution with many counter-revolution strikes so the law becomes more strict (robespiere kills many thousands). this is reflected in Javert. | 8. 8. What does this musical reflect? | the opression by the new rule (after revolution Napoleon was crowned emperor), by the law, diminished by warfare, political unrest. | 9. 9. How does the rebellion (the june rebellion)end? | It did not end well for the rebels. They barricaded themselves in the streets of Paris. They expected that the people would support their cause; however they soon realized that no reinforcements would be joining them. | 10. 10. Find the lyrics for one of the songs in the play | make them sing! |
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