1. Title: An Inspector Calls: revision
Date: Tuesday 25th April
Title: An Inspector Calls: revision
Lesson Objectives
(AO1) Revisit the different characters and key moments in the play
(AO3) Explore the context of the play and explore Priestley’s message
Success Criteria
Articulate our understanding of the characters within the play
Consolidate our understanding of Priestley’s message and how this links to Capitalism and Socialism
Plan and write an exam style response
Key Words
characters
plot
overview
revise

2. What do you remember about each character?
Lesson Objectives
(AO1) Revisit the different characters and key moments in the play
(AO3) Explore the context of the play and explore Priestley’s message
Key Words
characters
plot
overview
revise
Success Criteria
Articulate our understanding of the characters within the play
Consolidate our understanding of Priestley’s message and how this links to Capitalism and Socialism
Plan and write an exam style response
Sheila
What do you remember about each character?
You have 10 minutes to write at least 5 things under each character.
Eric
Gerald
Mr Birling
Mrs Birling
The Inspector
Eva Smith

3. An Inspector Calls: what was the message behind it?
Lesson Objectives
(AO1) Revisit the different characters and key moments in the play
(AO3) Explore the context of the play and explore Priestley’s message
Key Words
characters
plot
overview
revise
Success Criteria
Articulate our understanding of the characters within the play
Consolidate our understanding of Priestley’s message and how this links to Capitalism and Socialism
Plan and write an exam style response
An Inspector Calls: what was the message behind it?
What can you remember about the purpose of the play and Priestley’s message?

4. What did the inspector mean here?
Lesson Objectives
(AO1) Identify the differences between the older and younger generations in the play
(AO3) Explore the concepts of Socialism and Capitalism and how these impact on the play
Key Words
ending
meaning
message
overview
Success Criteria
Explore our interpretation of the ending of the play
Complete a detailed vocabulary bank
Discuss the reactions of characters at the end of the play thoughtfully
Consolidate our understanding of Capitalism and Socialism
Inspector Goole’s final words:
“We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. ... Good night.”
What did the inspector mean here?

5. Lesson Objectives
(AO1) Revisit the different characters and key moments in the play
(AO3) Explore the context of the play and explore Priestley’s message
Key Words
characters
plot
overview
revise
Success Criteria
Articulate our understanding of the characters within the play
Consolidate our understanding of Priestley’s message and how this links to Capitalism and Socialism
Plan and write an exam style response
How are the older generation different to the younger generation by the end of the play?
BIRLING: Well, here’s to us. Come on, Sheila, don’t look like that. All over now.
SHEILA: The worse part is. But you’re forgetting one things I still can’t forget. Everything we said had happened really had happened. If it didn’t end tragically, then that’s lucky for us. But it might have done.
SHEILA: And it frightens me the way you talk, and I can’t listen to any more of it.
ERIC: And I agree with Sheila. It frightens me too.
BIRLING: Well, go to bed then, and don’t stand there being hysterical.
MRS B: They’re over-tired. In the morning they’ll be as amused as we are.
BIRLING: Now look at the pair of them – the famous younger generation who know it all. And they can’t even take a joke -

6. Recap: What is capitalism? What is socialism? Lesson Objectives
(AO1) Revisit the different characters and key moments in the play
(AO3) Explore the context of the play and explore Priestley’s message
Key Words
characters
plot
overview
revise
Success Criteria
Articulate our understanding of the characters within the play
Consolidate our understanding of Priestley’s message and how this links to Capitalism and Socialism
Plan and write an exam style response
Recap:
What is capitalism?
What is socialism?

7. “working together for lower costs and higher prices” p.4
Capitalists believe:
You should look after yourself and your family, and if you make money that will help the economy.
It is OK to pay low wages as long as your profits are good.
It is other people’s fault if they are poor.
“working together for lower costs and higher prices” p.4
“We employers at last are coming together to see that our interests – and the interests of capital – are properly protected. And we’re in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity.” p.6
“A man has to make his own way – has to look after himself – and his family too (…) But the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive – community and all that nonsense.” p.10

8. We all have a responsibility to help each other.
Socialists believe
We all have a responsibility to help each other.
We should spread out wealth so that everybody has enough.
“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?” p.16
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour – they’re people” p.19
“there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, ther hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, and what we think and say and do. We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.” p.56

9. Lesson Objectives
(AO1) Revisit the different characters and key moments in the play
(AO3) Explore the context of the play and explore Priestley’s message
Key Words
characters
plot
overview
revise
Success Criteria
Articulate our understanding of the characters within the play
Consolidate our understanding of Priestley’s message and how this links to Capitalism and Socialism
Plan and write an exam style response
Exam Style Question
Eric Birling: “I do take some interest in it. I take too much, that’s my trouble.”
Explore how Eric’s experiences have affected him.
You must refer to other characters in your answer.
40 Marks

10. Use the knowledge map to plan your response to the question.
Lesson Objectives
(AO1) Revisit the different characters and key moments in the play
(AO3) Explore the context of the play and explore Priestley’s message
Key Words
characters
plot
overview
revise
Success Criteria
Articulate our understanding of the characters within the play
Consolidate our understanding of Priestley’s message and how this links to Capitalism and Socialism
Plan and write an exam style response
Planning
Use the knowledge map to plan your response to the question.
Remember: you must refer to other characters, explore key points in the play, consider the structure of the play, discuss the impact on the audience, include context throughout and consider Priestley’s message.

11. Exam Style Question Grade boundaries 0-3 - U 4-8 - 1 9-14 - 2
Lesson Objectives
(AO1) Revisit the different characters and key moments in the play
(AO3) Explore the context of the play and explore Priestley’s message
Key Words
characters
plot
overview
revise
Success Criteria
Articulate our understanding of the characters within the play
Consolidate our understanding of Priestley’s message and how this links to Capitalism and Socialism
Plan and write an exam style response
Exam Style Question
Eric Birling: “I do take some interest in it. I take too much, that’s my trouble.”
Explore how Eric’s experiences have affected him.
You must refer to other characters in your answer.
40 Marks
Grade boundaries
0-3 - U
23 - 4
24,
26 - 6
33 and above - 8
You have 45 minutes