QR Challenge: Great Expectations Ch 27-33

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. Analyze the meaning of the quote ending the fourth paragraph of Ch 27. "So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise."	Answer
2. Analyze the quote beginning the next to last paragraph of Ch 27. "Pip, dear chap, life is made...be met as they come."	Answer
3. Why does Dickens bring up convicts on the coach to Kent? Why is Pip scared?	Answer
4. What two important things does Pip find out by eavesdropping on the convicts' conversation in the coach on the way to Kent?	Answer
5. How is Pumblechook's character furthered in this section?	Answer
6. Who is Miss Havisham's new porter? What is Pip's reaction? Did you notice Chehkov's gun?	(Might need to google that.)
7. What is Miss Havisham's definition of love in Ch 29? Is Pip doing this?	Answer
8. Why doesn't Pip visit Joe when he goes home? Is he portrayed as selfish or distracted by love?	Answer
9. Look for the paragraph about halfway through Ch 29. "What was it that was borne in upon my mind when she stood still...could not trace this to Miss Havisham." What is the implication of this, or what is Dickens foreshadowing?	Answer
10. How does Pip describe his love for Estella? What does Herbert recommend he do? (Ch 29-30)	Answer
11. To whom is Herbert engaged? Why can't he marry her?	Answer
12. Two characters are heckled in this section? Who are they? Why are they heckled? Compare the reasons.	Answer
13. Why do you think Dickens chose Hamlet as the play in Ch 30? Are there any parallels between Hamlet and Pip?	Answer
14. Pip encounters a "nameless shadow" at the end of Ch 32. What is this, or what does this represent?	Answer
15. How have the interactions between Pip and Estella changed from Ch 9 to Ch 32?	Answer
16. Analyze the quote in the last major paragraph of Ch 32. "I consumed the whole time in thinking how strange...pervade my fortune and advancement."	Answer
17. Why would the Pockets write letters to Miss Havisham that disparage Pip, as Estella claims they did? (Several pages into Ch 33)	Answer
18. Analyze Estellla's quote at the end of the 3rd paragraph of Ch 33. "We have no choice, you and I, but to obey our instructions. We are not free to follow our own devices, you and I."	Answer
19. Identify three humorous lines in this section. Why do you find them humorous?	Answer

 

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