QR Challenge: The Scarlet Letter

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. What is Hawthorne saying about the Puritan women of the New World	The women are large and strong and they have not yet become frailties that have been bred into them
2. What is Hester\\\'s punishment2	hester is to stand on the scaffold as a \\\"spectacle of guilt and shame\\\" for three hours and to wear a scarlet \\\"A\\\" for the rest of her life2
3. What is Hwthorne foreshadowing with the stranger\\\'s prediction that the name of the father will eventually be disclosed3	the search for the identity will be a main focus of this book and this stranger will play a key role in this search3
4. Hawthorne completed The Scarlet Letter in whay year4	18504
5. The rosebush outside the prison door is a symbol of5	Puritanical punishment for moral crimes5
6. Hester has embroidered what symbol onto her dress6	a scarlet letter A6
7. Why is the first scaoffold scene very ironic7	Because Dimmesdale is called upon to ask Hester who the father is7
8. What does Pearl best represent throughout the novel8	The living embodiment of Hester\\\'s sin8
9. Two symbolic images of the good and evil battling over Dimmesdale\'s soul are9	Chillingworth and Pearl9
10. What kind of story, or genre, is The Scarlet Letter classified as10	psychological romance10

 

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