QR Challenge: "The Lottery"

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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.

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!

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.

Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. 1. Describe the setting at the beginning of the story.	June 27, sunny beautiful day, in small village in America
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3. 2. What seems to be the original purpose of the lottery? What do people believe about it?	to ensure a good crop; giving up the lottery would be bad luck
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5. 3. State one example of foreshadowing from the story.	the black box, the character names (Mr. Graves, Mrs. DelaCroix, Mr. Warner), the boys collecting stones in the beginning, etc.
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7. 4. Explain the signifigance of the following quote: "The children had stones already. And someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles."	the tradition is continuing/ being taught to the younger generation; Davy is going to contribute to the stoning of his mother; the tradition is more important than family ties
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9. 5. What is the signifigance of Tessie Hutchinson's final scream, "It isn't fair, It isn't right"? What part of the lottery is she questioning; what part of the lottery goes unquestioned?	Tessie is saying the selection method is not fair; they should have included her daughter with the rest of the family in the selection process. She is not questioning the fact that the lottery is held at all; this is very ironic.
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11. 6. How does the point of view preserve the suspense of the story?	Because the story is told from an outside narrator, we do not know what will happen. Therefore, there are no "spoilers" of what is to come.
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13. 7. What is the irony in the title of the story?	A lottery is thought to be something desirable that everyone wants to win; this lottery is the opposite.
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15. 8. This story was written in 1948; what was going on in America at that time that may have influenced Shirley Jackson when she wrote the story?	aftermath of WWII, time of great conformity

"The Lottery": QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=1._Describe_the_setting_at_the_beginning_of_the_story.

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