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. a group of lines in a poem that forms a unit	STANZA
2. a repeated word, phrase, or line	REFRAIN
3. the use of words that have the same ending sound	RHYME
4. when rhyming words are within a poem	INTERNAL RHYME
5. when the rhyming words are at the end of a line	END RHYME
6. the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning	ONOMATOPOEIA
7. the repetition of the same beginning sound in words close together	ALLITERATION
8. having a definite beat or rhythm pattern	METER
9. having NO definite beat or rhythm; “free” of a regular beat	FREE VERSE
10. a comparison of two UNLIKE things using “like” or “as”	SIMILE
11. a comparison of two UNLIKE things NOT using “like” or “as”	METAPHOR
12. giving human qualities to non-human things	PERSONIFICATION
13. an expression that cannot be made sense of its words literally	IDIOM
14. carries a comparison of two unlike things through an entire poem	EXMETAPHOR
15. Repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonants	ASSONANCE
16. speaking out loudly enough for an audience to hear clearly	PROJECTION
17. speaking with emotion in order to captivate the audience	EXPRESSION
18. pronouncing each syllable of each word clearly and distinctly	ENUNCIATION

 

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