QR Challenge: Elements of Poetry Scavenger Hunt!

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 do we call the physical structure of a poem (length of lines, rhythm, etc)?	Form
2. The arrangement of lines into groups?	Stanzas
3. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line?	Meter
4. Poets choose to place words in a certain order for a reason, and the construction of their _____ is important	lines
5. Metaphors, similes, hyperbole, personification, etc, are all examples of...	Figurative language
6. If a stanza has four lines, what do we call it?	Quatrain
7. What do we call the narrator of a poem?	Speaker
8. What do we call poems that have little to no structure?	Free verse
9. What is the continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break?	Enjambment
10. A strong pause or stop within a line is called a _________?	Caesura
11. How many syllables does 'magnificent' have?	4
12. A ____ is a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables.	foot
13. A reference to a well-known person, story or idea (often a biblical or mythological reference); it is left to the reader to make the connection.	Allusion

 

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