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. Define the three types of irony; make a connection to a book, movie or T.V. program that your group is familiar with. | verbal irony, situational irony, dramatic irony. | 2. Define foreshadowing and provide an example from a story, T.V. program or movie that your group is familiar with. | foreshadowing is an indication that something may happen later in the story. | 3. Identify the four types of Point of View. | Omniscient, Limited Omniscient, First person narrative, Objective point of view. | 4. What is conflict and give examples for each of the four types? | Struggle between two or more opposing forces in the plot types: person vs person, person vs nature, person vs society, person vs self. | 5. What are flat and round characters and identify examples of each from stories, movies or T.V. shows? | Flat character is one-dimensional stereotype Round character is three dimensional, well-rounded and complex | 6. What are static and dynamic characters and identify examples of each from stories, movies or T.V. shows? | Static character does not change throughout the story Dynamic character undergoes permanent change as a result of the conflict. | 7. Explain verisimilitude. | a life like quality possessed by a story. | 8. What is an epiphany? Can you think of an example? | a significant realization which happens to the main character usually at the end of the story. | 9. Define tone and list some tone words. i.e. serious. | the attitude expressed by the author to his material audience or both | 10. What is a character foil and provide an example from stories, movies or T.V. shows. | A character foil is one whose behavior attitudes or opinions contrast with the protagonist. | 11. Define mood and provide an example from stories, movies or T.V. shows. | Mood is the emotional colouring of the story. | 12. What is a flashback? | Flashback is a switch from the present to past event. | 13. Define initial incident. | the event that initiates the conflict. | 14. What is the definition of antecedent action? | action that takes place before the story begins. | 15. Explain plot and what are the four main sections? | plot is the storyline the events as they happen introduction rising action climax denouement. |
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