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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
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
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!
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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| 1. Question.What are Penelope’s primary concerns? What does she do about them? | (Penelope has lived a life of mourning since her husband first left for Troy years earlier. She has spent her life in sadness, worrying about whether he is dead or alive. She is eager to inquire and give audience to anyone who may have heard about him, even Odysseus the beggar. The suitors’ occupation and pillaging of her home appears to be a secondary concern. Though she is devoted to her husband and awaits his return, she makes no decisions that will rid her home of these men who want to marry her. However, her confrontation of Antinous and discussions withTelemachus reveal her desire that the suitors be killed.) | 2. Question2.Describe Antinous. What do you think the gods think of him? | (Antinous is the meanest of the suitors who occupy Odysseus’s home. He is angry, belligerent, and outspoken in his desire to have Telemachus killed and his father’s property sold. The gods want to orchestrate his ruin because, for one thing, he is treacherous in wanting to create and profit from the fall of Odysseus’s family. The gods think a man of such wicked desires should be punished, particularly because Odysseus rescued Antinous’s father years earlier. The gods would also take pleasure in punishing him for becoming the kind of person that would feel no wrong in hurling a stool at an old, needy beggar, for example.)2 | 3. Question3.Why does Odysseus beg from the suitors?3 | (Taking advantage of his disguise, Odysseus wants to get a closer look at his enemies—and to be close enough to kill them when the time is right. At Athena’s direction, he begs from each of the suitors individually to judge who is good and who is bad, which may determine the extent of their final punishment. Odysseus deliberately begs from the hostile Antinous to shame him for having no heart.)3 | 4. Question4.Why does Odysseus get into a fight? What happens? | (While disguised as a beggar, Odysseus must stand his ground against another beggar, Irus, who becomes angry over having to compete for handouts from the suitors. A fight ensues after Antinous turns their hostile confrontation into an entertaining prizefight, offering food and exclusive begging rights to the winner. After Athena’s magic [again] builds Odysseus’s physical prowess, he flattens Irus with a punch. The suitors are in awe of Odysseus’s power and gleefully laugh when he wins the fight.)4 | 5. Question 5.What happen first? | (Telemachus will return home in the morning. Eumaeus will bring Odysseus the beggar to the city, where he will meet the suitors and beg from them.)5 | 6. Question 6.What happens next? | (When Athena signals Odysseus that the time is right, Odysseus will nod to Telemachus to collect all the suitors’ armor in the house and hide it in the storeroom. Telemachus should give the suitors some simple excuse as to why he is moving their weaponry, if asked. When finished, he should leave swords and spears that he and Odysseus can pick up and use at any time.)6 | 7. Question 7.What happens then? | (Zeus and Athena will cast a quieting spell upon the suitors, immobilizing and rendering them defenseless.)7 | 8. Question 8.What happens after that? | (Odysseus and Telemachus will go through the house, killing the suitors one by one.)8 | 9. Question 9.What happens Finally? | (Odysseus and Telemachus will test the women and servants who remain and determine who has been loyal to them and who has not.)9 | 10. Question 10.What do you consider their biggest obstacle? How is Odysseus’s response to this problem surprising or unusual? | (According to Telemachus, there are about a hundred suitors from around the region who occupy their house. This large number encourages Odysseus to involve the gods in plans to kill these enemies. What is surprising is that Odysseus and his son not only assume that the gods will participate, but also question whether Zeus and Athena will be suitable partners to achieve success. Because Odysseus has an unusually close relationship with the gods, he should know that he can’t fail if they’re behind him.)10 | 11. Question 12.What do you think of their plan overall? Do you think they will succeed? Why or why not? | (Answers will vary. Encourage students to discuss the complexities of Odysseus’s plan. How is the gods’ involvement guaranteed and why does Odysseus assume that it is? The plan’s success is highly probably because of the help of the all-powerful gods and the prediction of the blind prophet Teiresias, who has told Odysseus that he is fated to kill the suitors.)12 |
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