QR Challenge: Poetry Crossword

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. Tools used to do something	Devices
2. Repeated VOWEL sounds in the middle of lines	Assonance
3. Repeated CONSONANT sounds	Alliteration
4. Matching VOWEL sounds in the last word in a line	End rhyme
5. Words that sound like what they describe	Onomatopoeia
6. Huge exaggeration	Hyperbole
7. An unexpected and almost opposite outcome	Irony
8. Rhythm or beat of syllables	Meter
9. A physical structure of the poem	Form
10. Description that appeals to the 5 senses	Imagery
11. Words that make you feel a certain way	Mood
12. Metaphors and similes that create an image that is not literally happening	Figurative Language
13. A paragraph or chunk in poetry	Stanza
14. What we call poetry because it is made up of beats and syllables NOT grammatical units like a sentence	Verse
15. Parts of something	Element
16. Figurative phrase whose meaning can NOT be understood from the literal definition of each word	Idiom
17. "Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tune without words	Figurative Language
18. I hauled the hundreds of heavy handkerchiefs down the path through to hairy Harry's house	Alliteration
19. __________s of language, ___________s of poetry, ___________s on the periodic table	Element
20. Pun, connotation, contrast, irony are all examples of ____________ used in poetry to make it more interesting	Devices
21. The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain	Assonance
22. Life is but life, and death but death! Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath!	End Rhyme
23. Susie's galoshes. Make splishes and sploshes. And slooshes and sloshes.	Onomatopoeia
24. I'M SO HUNGY I COULD EAT A COW!	Hyperbole
25. "I posted a video on YouTube about how boring and useless YouTube is" This is an example of ________	Irony
26. Haiku or Cinquain	Form
27. I’m glad the sky is painted blue, And the earth is painted green, With such a lot of nice fresh air, All sandwiched in between.	Imagery
28. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—	Mood
29. Duh-dum, Duh-dum, Duh-dum	Meter

 

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