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. 1-How are the poem's meaning and imagery changed by its context in this novel? | The reader realizes that the poem is connected to the ten guests in the story and will depict how each will die. | 2. 2-What were Anthony Marsten's last words before he died, and how do these words reflect the irony or black comedy of this particular murder,given these final comments? | He says, "I'm all for crime!" just as he was about to die. It's ironic because someone commits a crime on him by killing him. | 3. 3-In part 3 of chapter 7, Mr. Lombard and Dr. Armstrong discuss the two deaths that have occurred thus far. Why do they conclude that both deaths must have been acts of murder? | They conclude that two people could not have committed suicide within 13 hours of each other. Also, the figurines kept disappearing and that they both died exactly how the nursery rhyme said. | 4. 4-Armstrong and Lombard both conclude that it must be Mr. Owen committing the murders, and he must be a raving lunatic! They agree to ask another male guest for help in searching the island. Who do they decide will be a "good man in a pinch?" | Blore | 5. 5-Who brings a gun to the island? | Lombard | 6. 6-Where do the team of Lombard, Armstrong, and Blore plan to search? What will they be looking for and what do they find? | They plan to search over the whole island, including the shoreline and the house. They are looking for caves for people to hide in. In the house they are looking for secret rooms or passageways. They find nothing. | 7. 7-At the end of chapter 8 the mood of the story changes as the guests all become paranoid, realizing the killer is one of the eight guests left. How do the characters start behaving toward each other after this point? | They start behaving more cautiously,thus the mood of the story changes. | 8. 8-Pick a passage that you believe to be foreshadowing. Explain why you believe it is suggesting what will happen. | answer | 9. 9-Define the vocabulary word acquiesce. What does Christie show about Vera's attitude toward Miss Brent when she uses the this word on page 97? | answer | 10. 10-What causes Vera to change her opinion of Miss Brent from "slightly ridiculous" to "terrible"? | answer | 11. 11-Identify a character, or characters, that you believe is/are mentally unstable. | answer | 12. 12-Where is General Macarthur while Lombard, Blore, and Armstrong search the island? | Gazing out to sea | 13. 13-Who is found quietly walking upstairs while Armstrong, Blore, and Lombard are searching the house? | Mr. Rogers | 14. 14-In Chapter 8, the use of the word dubiously on page 113 shows that Blore thinks what about Lombard's theory? | answer | 15. 15-In Chapter 8, why is Blore suspicious of Lombard? Who does he tell this to? | answer |
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