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.
Question | Answer |
1. 1. Who is Jem Finch? Page number? | Atticus's son, Scout's brother | 2. 2. In what time period does this novel take place? | The Great Depression | 3. 3. What does the mockingbird symbolize? | innocence | 4. 4. Who is Calpurnia? Page number? | The Finch's cook and nanny | 5. 5. Bill Baxley was a former Attorney General of Alabama and he wrote a famous letter. To whom was he writing the letter? Why? | KKK because he received a threatening letter of protest from white supremacist Edward R. Fields -— founder of the "National States' Rights Party" and "Grand Dragon" of the New Order Knights of the Ku Klux Klan —- in which he was accused of reopening the case for tactical reasons | 6. 6. What was the 16th Street Church Bombing Case? | 4 girls were killed when KKK members bombed a baptist church in an act of racially charged terrorism. | 7. 7. Who is Dill? Page number? | Jem and Scout's best friend who comes during the summer | 8. 8. To what is the term "Jim Crow" referring? | The complex system of laws and customs separating the reaces in the South. | 9. 9. What is the name of the town where Scout lives and in what state is it? | Maycomb, Alabama | 10. 10. Who is Atticus Finch? Page Number? | Jem and Scout's dad | 11. 11. What are the three themes presented in this novel? | Good and Evil in human nature, Importance of moral education, social inequality | 12. 12. What are the two motifs present in this novel? | Gothic details and small town life | 13. 13. Are you excited to read the book? | yes! | 14. 14. Who played Atticus Finch in the movie version of the book? | Gregory Peck | 15. 15. Who wrote TKAM? | Harper Lee | 16. 16. How often will you have a quiz on the reading? | Everyday | 17. 17. Do you need to fill out the study guide? | Yes, but not the drawings | 18. 18. From whose point of view is the story told? | Scout's | 19. 19. What is the story about? | The trial of Tom Robinson and the coming of age of 2 (3) primary characters | 20. 20. What is the definition of a theme and a motif? | A motif is a recurring idea, symbol, theme, etc. that helps convey a theme. A theme is a unifying or dominant idea in a literary work. |
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