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QR Challenge: Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt

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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

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. Who did Shakespeare marry?Anne Hathaway. He was 18, she was 26.
2. How many children did Shakespeare have?Shakespeare had three children: a son, Hamnet, who died in 1596, and two daughters, Susanna and Judith.
3. Fact: Shakespeare had no direct descendants. For a chance to win a prize, list a famous quote from the play "Hamlet"To thine own self be true.
4. How many plays and sonnets did Shakespeare write?During his life, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets!
5. How old was Shakespeare when he died?Scholars believe he was 52 years old.
6. In what theatre were most of Shakespeare's plays performed?The Globe Theatre
7. Where was J.R.R. Tokien born?Tolkien was born in Orange Free State, South Africa, but moved to England aged three.
8. What happened to J.R.R. Tolkien when he was a baby?He was kidnapped by a servant who was supposedly captivated by him.
9. Where did J.R.R. Tolkien go to college?Oxford
10. What was J.R.R.Tolkien's first work?The Silmarillion; this wasn't published until after his death, and was revised at different periods throughout his life.
11. To whom was "The Hobbit" initially written for?Tolkien originally wrote it for his children.
12. Since J.R.R. Tolkien despised cars, what his primary mode of transportation?Tolkien spent most of his adult life relying on bicycles and trains.
13. Where did J.R.R. Tolkien work in 1918?In 1918, he got a job working on the Oxford English Dictionary.
14. What is J.R.R. Tolkien's full name?His full name is John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
15. What three languages did J.R.R. Tolkien create as a child?Three of the first languages that Tolkien worked on as a child were Animalic (he explored this one with friends, and did not actually invent it himself), Nevbosh (meaning “new nonsense,” Tolkien helped to construct it and enjoyed conversing with his friends in it), and Naffarin (the first language he worked on alone at age eight or nine.)
16. What "crime" did Tolkien commit during his first semester at Oxford?Tolkien stole a city bus as a prank and took his friends on a joyride.
17. How many poems did Emily Dickinson have published during her lifetime?Emily had 11 poems published during her lifetime.
18. In addition to writing poetry, what did Emily Dickinson study?Dickinson studied botany.
19. When was Emily Dickinson born?Dickinson was born December 10, 1830.
20. How old was Emily Dickinson when she began writing poetry?Dickinson was a teenager when she began writing poetry.
21. List the titles of at least five poems written by Emily DickinsonHow do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
22. Where did Emily Dickinson attend college?Amherst Academy (now Amherst College), Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
23. When was Emily Dickinson's first volume of poetry published?1890.
24. To whom was Emily Dickinson married?Dickinson never married.
25. How did Emily Dickinson die?Dickinson died of kidney disease in Amherst, Massachusetts, on May 15, 1886.

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 1 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 2 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 3 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 4 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 5 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 6 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 7 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 8 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 9 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 10 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 11 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 12 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 13 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 14 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 15 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 16 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 17 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 18 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 19 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 20 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 21 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 22 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 23 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 24 (of 25)

 


Literacy Week Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge

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Question 25 (of 25)