QR Challenge: To Kill a Mockingbird Literary Term Challenge
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. "The courthouse sagged in the square"? | personification
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2. "...and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting" | simile
| 3. "A picket fence drunkenly guarded the yard" | personification
| 4. "The old house was the same, droopy and sick..." | personification
| 5. "She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop" | simile
| 6. Why would the author characterize the teacher as"...no more than twenty one...pink cheeks...smelled like a peppermint drop | to show how young
| 7. "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved reading. One does not love breathing." | metaphor
| 8. "The ceiling danced with light" | personification
| 9. "The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, the crash hit them the hardest." | allusion
| 10. What effect does having so many literary terms in one paragraph (page 6 Maycomb was...) have on the reader? | slow them down |
To Kill a Mockingbird Literary Term Challenge: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text="The_courthouse_sagged_in_the_square"?
Question 1 (of 10)
To Kill a Mockingbird Literary Term Challenge: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text="...and_by_nightfall_were_like_soft_teacakes_with_frosting"
Question 2 (of 10)
To Kill a Mockingbird Literary Term Challenge: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text="A_picket_fence_drunkenly_guarded_the_yard"
Question 3 (of 10)
To Kill a Mockingbird Literary Term Challenge: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text="The_old_house_was_the_same,_droopy_and_sick..."
Question 4 (of 10)
To Kill a Mockingbird Literary Term Challenge: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text="She_looked_and_smelled_like_a_peppermint_drop"
Question 5 (of 10)
To Kill a Mockingbird Literary Term Challenge: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Why_would_the_author_characterize_the_teacher_as"...no_more_than_twenty_one...pink_cheeks...smelled_like_a__peppermint_drop
Question 6 (of 10)
To Kill a Mockingbird Literary Term Challenge: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text="Until_I_feared_I_would_lose_it,_I_never_loved_reading._One_does_not_love_breathing."
Question 7 (of 10)
To Kill a Mockingbird Literary Term Challenge: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text="The_ceiling_danced_with_light"
Question 8 (of 10)
To Kill a Mockingbird Literary Term Challenge: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text="The_Cunninghams_are_country_folks,_farmers,_the_crash_hit_them_the_hardest."
Question 9 (of 10)
To Kill a Mockingbird Literary Term Challenge: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_effect_does_having_so_many_literary_terms_in_one_paragraph_(page_6_Maycomb_was...)_have_on_the_reader?
Question 10 (of 10)
