QR Challenge: Rhetorical Questions

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. How are experts used to argue a point?	a. Famous names make the argument more impressive and convincing. b.Experts know more about the topic and so using them to support the argument makes it more convincing. c. Including experts is not a good way to argue a point.
2. What is exaggeration?2	a.Including three ideas to support your points. b. Using words like ‘you’, ‘our’ and ‘we’ in a text. c. Making a situation seem bigger or more serious than it is in reality.2
3. True or False?3	A rhetorical question is designed to make the reader ask the question to themselves but does not require the reader to give an actual answer.3
4. Which is the example of magic three?4	Wearing school uniform creates a sense of identity, provides the school with a clear corporate image and makes the students recognizable to people in the area. b. 65% of students say they prefer the idea of wearing school uniform even though they don’t particularly like the uniform at their school. c. Brighton Hill has the liveliest and brightest uniform in the county.4
5. True or False?5	Using personal pronouns is a good way of convincing people because it makes them feel part of the text as if the writer is addressing them directly and making them a part of the situation being discussed?5
6. Which of the following is an example of emotive language?6	a. The sad, dark, hungry eyes of the dog stared up at me from the kennel where it sat, imploring me to take him home. b. How could I resist this poor, desperate animal; could you? c. These lonely, homeless animals only wish for the one thing they are currently denied: the love and affection of an owner who in return will gain complete loyalty and trust from these amiable creatures.6
7. Yes or No?7	Statistics can help make an argument more convincing because people always believe figures even though they are often questionable.7
8. True or False?8	Exaggeration is making up facts to support your argument.8
9. On a scale of 1 to 5.9	I understand rhetorical devices and think I would be able to use them in my own writing!9

 

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