QR Challenge: Short story elements

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. Name the four elements of a short story	plot character conflict setting
2. What is setting?2	Where and when the story takes place2
3. The people and sometimes animals in a story are called...3	characters3
4. Descriptions of characters and how the author does it4	characterization4
5. Often the hero in the story/main character5	protagonist5
6. He/she/it opposes the main character6	antagonist6
7. physical appearance, speech, thoughts, feelings, or actions of the character or other characters7	Indirect Characterization7
8. the narrator’s direct comments about a character8	Direct characterization8
9. The order of events that take place in a story9	plot9
10. The problem in the story10	conflict10
11. The 6 parts of plot11	Exposition Conflict Rising Action Climax Falling Action Resolution11
12. What are the 2 types of conflict?12	External and internal12
13. The message of a story is called...13	theme13
14. Who is the best English teacher ever?14	Mrs. Gilliam

 

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