QR Challenge: Their Eyes Were Watching God
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.
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!
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.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
1. What even spurs Nanny to seek protection for Janie in the form of a solid, respectable husband? | Johnny Taylor kisses Janie
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2. What is Jody Starks’s job? | Mayor of Eatonville
| 3. Where do Tea Cake and Janie go to work and live? | Everglades
| 4. After her husband, Joedy, expires? | Her kerchiefs
| 5. Who is Janie’s’ life long best friend? | Pheoby
| 6. What does Janie by Tea Cake at the beginning of their marriage? | A Guitar
| 7. What does Joe force Janie to conceal while in the store? | Her hair
| 8. What is the last name of the family Janie grew up with? | Washburn
| 9. How did Janie kill Tea Cake? | Shot him
| 10. Whose were the six eyes questioning God? | Janie, Tea Cake, Motor Boat
| 11. What did Tea Cake compare Janie’s hair to? | The underneath of a dove’s wing
| 12. What type of tree was Janie sitting under when she sees the bees? | Pear
| 13. What does Janie wear to Tea Cake’s funeral? | Overalls
| 14. What bites Tea Cake? | Dog
| 15. How many marriages does Janie have? | 3
| 16. Janie’s original last name is? | Crawford
| 17. Janie’s mother’s first name is? | Leafy
| 18. Zora Neale Hurston died in what year? | 1960 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_even_spurs_Nanny_to_seek_protection_for_Janie_in_the_form_of_a_solid,_respectable_husband?
Question 1 (of 18)
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_Jody_Starks’s_job?
Question 2 (of 18)
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Where_do_Tea_Cake_and_Janie_go_to_work_and_live?
Question 3 (of 18)
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=After_her_husband,_Joedy,_expires?
Question 4 (of 18)
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_is_Janie’s’_life_long_best_friend?
Question 5 (of 18)
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_does_Janie_by_Tea_Cake_at_the_beginning_of_their_marriage?
Question 6 (of 18)
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_does_Joe_force_Janie_to_conceal_while_in_the_store?
Question 7 (of 18)
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_the_last_name_of_the_family_Janie_grew_up_with?
Question 8 (of 18)
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_did_Janie_kill_Tea_Cake?
Question 9 (of 18)
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Whose_were_the_six_eyes_questioning_God?
Question 10 (of 18)
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_did_Tea_Cake_compare_Janie’s_hair_to?
Question 11 (of 18)
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_type_of_tree_was_Janie_sitting_under_when_she_sees_the_bees?
Question 12 (of 18)
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_does_Janie_wear_to_Tea_Cake’s_funeral?
Question 13 (of 18)
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_bites_Tea_Cake?
Question 14 (of 18)
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_many_marriages_does_Janie_have?
Question 15 (of 18)
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Janie’s_original_last_name_is?
Question 16 (of 18)
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Janie’s_mother’s_first_name_is?
Question 17 (of 18)
Their Eyes Were Watching God : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Zora_Neale_Hurston_died_in_what_year?
Question 18 (of 18)