QR Challenge: Elements of Poetry

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. Is a type of literature in which ideas and feelings are expressed in compact, imaginative, and often musical language. Poets arrange words in a way that touch readers’ senses, emotions and minds	Poetry
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3. Is the way the poem looks and its arrangement on the page. Poets deliberately choose the form they wish their poems to take and may even space the words and letters in a poem to create a special arrangement	Poetic Form
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5. Each line expresses the thoughts of the writer/poet in words. The lines of a poem can extend to two or more lines	Lines
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7. Is the group of lines combined into groups(similar to a paragraph)	Stanza
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9. Is a rhymed pair of lines in a poem.	Couplet
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11. The repetition of similar sounds at the ends of two or more words	Rhyme
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13. Is a comparison of two things that have some quality in common, but are primarily different. Unlike simile, metaphor does not contain the word like or as	Metaphor
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15. Is a comparison of two things that have some qualities in common, but are primarily different. In simile the comparison is expressed by means of a word such as like or as	Simile
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17. Is the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea	Personification
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19. Is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. Writers use alliteration for emphasis and to give a musical quality	Alliteration
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21. A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated	Hyperbole
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23. Is the use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning. The words bang and hiss are examples	Onomatopoeia
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25. Repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words	Assonance
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27. Consists of words and phrases that appeal to a readers five senses	Imagery
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29. Expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of the words used	Idiom
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31. Is a contrast between what is expected and what actually happened	Irony

 

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