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. 1/7 A subject is a topic which acts as foundation for a literary work while a _________ is a writer’s message expressed on the subject. For example, a writer may choose the topi of war and his personal opinion “war is a curse for humanity” would be the _________ of a story. | Theme | 2. 2/7 For the first three months following his death, I cried and wandered aimlessly from room to room in our house and stared out the windows. Dried leaves filled the backyard, only to be covered by an early December snow, which then turned to soggy January mush. Sometimes I slept in his study on his faded brown leather sofa, one of the relics from his bachelor days. I smell him in there, that all too familiar scent of patchouli oil and plain soap. I called our voice mail ten times a day just to hear his voice – that mild tenor that … Answer the following: A) WHAT’S IMAGERY? B) IDENTIFY AT LEAST THREE EXAMPLES OF SENSORY LANGUAGE AND MENTION WHICH SENSES THEY APPEAL TO. C) WHAT’S THE MOOD THE EXTRACT CONVEYS IN THE READER? | a) vivid descriptions that recreate sensory experiences for readers. // b) sight: “stared out the windows” …, “dried leaves”…, “early December snow” sound: “cried aimlessly”, “called our voice mail…” touch: “slept in his study on his faded brown leather sofa” smell: “too familiar scent of patchouli oil and plain soap” // c) intense feelings of grief and sorrow after the loss of her spouse. | 3. 3/7 “All the world’s a stage,//And all the men and women merely players;//They have their exits and their entrances;//And one man in his time plays many parts,” WHAT DO “A STAGE” AND “PLAYERS” SYMBOLIZE? | Men and women perform different roles in life, a “stage” symbolizes the world and “players” is a symbol for human beings. | 4. 4/7 A person who is responsible for the thoughts and actions within a story, poem, or other literature: ________________ | Character | 5. 5/7 “… it was a small settlement on the Rinds land, near a creek. Just a few old houses scattered around, leftover slave stuff. That’s where Sylvester Rinds lived, that’s where my father stepped forward with his shotgun and stood between the men and Sylvester’s wife and daughter. He said no one was burning the house, and the men got in their trucks and left. The last thing I saw was that my father gave the widow a few bucks and made her sign a deed to the eighty acres. He promised her she could stay there, and she did for about forty-eight hours. The sheriff and my father went out to the settlement and told the widow and the other Rinds that they were evicted. Immediately. Pack up your stuff right now and get off this land. There was a small chapel, and to prove my father owned everything, he torched it..." a) WHAT MOOD DOES THE SETTING CREATE? b) FIND DETAILS THAT REVEAL THE TIME AND PLACE IN WHICH THE PASSAGE OCCURS. | a) Mood: gloomy, forced or involuntary eviction, dominance, treason against the powerless // b) Setting: 1850’S and after, Slavery era in the rural United States. // Evidence: ‘small settlement…’, ‘houses scattered…’, ‘leftover slave stuff…’, ‘got in their trucks…’, ‘the sheriff…’, ‘get off this land…’ | 6. 6/7 Identify the different categories of figurative language in the following examples: a) ‘stand out like a sore thumb’ _____________ b) ‘his hair was bone white’ _____________ c) ‘I heard her angelic voice and I’m sure the rest of The world did too ________ d) ‘the tree wept as its limbs were cut’ __________.// CHOOSE FROM: hyperbole/simile/personification/metaphor | a)simile, b) metaphor, c) hyperbole, d) personification | 7. 7/7 ___________: We meet a girl, Paige, young and full of dreams. Her mom is not quite happy about her daughter’s wishes.//_____________: Mom tries to lock her daughter in the cellar and home schools her to avoid her dreams to be realised. Her new tutor hurts her and causes her grief.//_____________: Paige finds herself alone and after much suffering, jumps off the only window in the cellar. // ______________: Her body is severly injured due to the fall and shards of glass have made her bleed badly.//______________: Mom realises her mistake and doesn’t reall y want to lose a daughter, so life changes for them all. WRITE THE PARTS OF THE PLOT THAT CORRESPOND TO EACH PIECE IN THIS STORY. | Exposition: We meet a girl, Paige, … // Rising Action: Mom tries to lock her daughter … //Climax: Paige finds herself alone … //Falling action: Her body is severly injured … // Resolution: Mom realises her mistake. |
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