QR Challenge: Protest Poetry Review

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. Define “simile” and provide an example.	Varied
2. What type of imagery is present in this line?: “The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells.”	Varied
3. “Sweet murder.” Which literary device is this?	Varied
4. Find an example of metaphor from one of the poems we’ve studied.	Varied
5. Which literary device is displayed in this quote? “Silent Soldiers on a silver screen”	Varied
6. Find a rhyming couplet from one of the poems we’ve studied.	Varied
7. Which literary device is present in the following quote?: “How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood”	Varied
8. Define hyperbole and write an example.	Varied
9. “Freedom / Is a strong seed.” Which literary device is this and what’s the intended effect?	Varied
10. Find two literary devices in the following quote: “And the gargoyles only sit and grieve”	Varied
11. Find an example of cacophony from one of the poems we’ve studied.	Varied
12. What literary devices is the following: “What are we doing here?”	Varied
13. What is the name of this literary device (it is repetition, but the specific type): “Ten Bucks you say I owe you? Ten Bucks you say is due?”	Varied
14. Find an example of euphony in one of the poems we have studied.	Varied
15. Define pun and provide an example.	Varied
16. List all five different types of imagery we’ve studied (hint: the literary names for the five senses).	Varied
17. Name the literary device present in the following sentence: “"Hush, Tom!”	Varied
18. Find an example of symbolism from one of the works we have studied and explain its meaning.	Varied
19. What is the literary term we use to discuss an author’s choice of words?	Varied
20. Provide an example of irony.	Varied

 

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