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.
Question | Answer |
| 1. What is the setting of “The Raven”? | In a chamber of a house in an unknown place in the United States, around 1845. The time is midnight. In a fireplace, embers are turning to ash. The narrator uses the word chamber rather than bedroom apparently because chamber has a dark and mysterious connotation. | 2. What type of poem is “The Raven”? | A narrative poem presented by a man grieving over the death of the woman he loved. While he mourns her | 3. A raven enters his room through a window, perches on a bust of the goddess Athena, and repeatedly speaks what word? | nevermore | 4. Point of view of the poem | first-person point of view | 5. How does the narrator feel? | depressed, lonely, and possibly mentally unstable as a result of his loss of love | 6. What Is a Raven? | a type of crow that eat small animals, fruit, and seeds and often appear in legend and literature as sinister omens. | 7. What is an omen? | An omen is an event or happening that you take as sign of something to come. It's believed to be a bad omen if a black cat crosses your path or if it rains on your wedding day | 8. Word choices that give overall atmosphere and tone of the poem include: | weary, dreary, bleak, dying, sorrow, sad, darkness, stillness, mystery, ebony, grave, stern, lonely, grim, ghastly, and gaunt. | 9. Themes of the poem | -Grief-Finality of Death-Mental Instability | 10. What does the raven, repeating the word "Nevermore," reminds him of? | that Lenore will not return, that death is final and irreversible. | 11. Who Is Lenore? | deceased woman in the poem | 12. Literary devices used in the poem | -Alliteration -Metaphor-Personification-symbolism | 13. Examples of Alliteration | -Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore -While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping -And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain -Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before -Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter -What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore | 14. Example of Metaphor | “And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.” | 15. Example of Personification | “On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o'er” | 16. What type(s) of rhyme Poe uses? | uses rhyming words in the same line (internal rhyme), a word at the end of one line that rhymes with a word at the end of another line (end rhyme), alliteration (a figure of speech that repeats a consonant sound), and a regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables. | 17. Summarize the Poem | It is midnight on a cold evening in December in the 1840s. In a dark and shadowy bedroom, wood burns in the fireplace as a man grieves the death of Lenore, a woman he loved and tapping noise disturbs him. When he opens the door to the bedroom, he sees only darkness. The tapping persists, he opens the window and discovers a raven, which flies into the room and lands above the door on a bust of Athena (Pallas in the poem), The raven, a symbol of death, tells the man he will ("nevermore") see his beloved, never again hold her— not even in heaven | 18. What does the Raven symbolize? | death, and tells the man he will never again("nevermore") see his beloved, never again hold her — even in heaven. | 19. What are some examples of allusion in “The Raven”? | -Nepenthe (mentioned in the Odyssey), -Aidenn (Garden of Eden), -Pallas,-Plutonian shore(death-afterworld) |
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