1. ACTORS: Stage directions Eric Birling Inspector Goole Mrs B.
Read Act Three Pp
ACTORS:
Stage directions
Eric Birling
Inspector Goole
Mrs B.
Sheila Birling
Birling
Gerald Croft
What do the first 3 pages reveal about the family relationships?
What impact do the characters have on the audience?
What is Priestley’s purpose in presenting these relationships?
How effective is Priestley’s in achieving his purpose?
Learning Objective: To respond to texts critically and imaginatively (AO1)
Key words: comprehend, interpret, explore

2. Responding to the text
Learning Objective: To analyse character development
Key words: comprehend, interpret, explore, critical, imaginative
Success Criteria:
To identify relevant textual detail to support inferences
To analyse relevant textual detail to support interpretations
To evaluate relevant textual detail to support interpretations
LILLS: Independent Enquirer, Team worker, Creative Thinker
STARTER: Describe the characters below in one word and explain why you have chosen that word.
Mr Birling
Mrs Birling
Sheila Birling
Eric Birling
Gerald Croft
Eva Smith/Daisy Renton
The Inspector
A/A* thinking question:
Why does Priestley include Edna in the play? What role does she play in contributing to writer’s ideas?

3. Starter
Read the information and try to come up with a solution to the conundrum.
There was once a recluse who never left his home. The only time anyone ever visited him was when his food and supplies were delivered, but they never came inside. Then, one storm winter night when an icy gale was blowing, he had a nervous breakdown. He went upstairs, turned off all the lights and went to bed. Next morning, he had caused the deaths of several hundred people. How?
Extension: What may the main theme/topic of the lesson be? (Consider the point of this conundrum. What does it allude to/suggest)?

4. He was a lighthouse keeper who switched off the lighthouse.
Starter
Read the information and try to come up with a solution to the conundrum.
He was a lighthouse keeper who switched off the lighthouse.

5. -To analyse the theme of responsibility.
Lesson Objectives
-To analyse the theme of responsibility.
Lesson
Objectives
Lesson Outcomes
(Expected progress…) To discuss and explore the theme of responsibility.
(Better than expected progress…) To evaluate each character’s responsibility within the play.

6. Who is to blame?
Which character do you think is the most responsible for the death of Eva Smith? Place the characters in order of responsibility then give reasons for your choices:
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Extension: Write down the responsibility of each character in the death of Eva Smith/Daisy Renton (how is the character responsible)?

7. You may like to write down a list of features
Mini-plenary
On your mini whiteboards, write down the character who you think is the most responsibility.
You must also give a reason for your answer (why is that character the most responsible)?
You may like to write down a list of features Or
One complete sentence.
(Expected progress…) To discuss and explore the theme of responsibility.
-To analyse the theme of responsibility.
(Better than expected progress…) To evaluate each character’s responsibility within the play.

8. Task
Success Criteria
Point linked to question
-The inspector’s final speech conveys...
Evidence with precisely selected quotations
-This is evident when.../This is implied...
Analysis of the quotation at word level
-The suggests.../This indicates...
How does the Inspector’s final speech convey Priestley’s own ideas about social equality and responsibility?
(Explore what the inspector is saying, who he is saying it to, when he is saying, analyse use of simple and complex sentences).
Extension:
-How does the Inspector’s final speech contrast to Arthur Birling’s speech in Act One? Why does Priestley do this? (Explore Priestley’s audience and purpose).

9. Time to reflect… 1 thing you need more help with…
Complete the Plenary task in your exercise books
1 thing you need more help with…
2 things you want to know more about…
3 things you have learned this lesson…

10. (before the Inspector takes ‘charge, masterfully’)
Learning Objective: To analyse character development
Key words: comprehend, interpret, explore
Success Criteria
Point linked to question
Evidence which precisely selected
Analysis of the quotation at word level
Answer this question using evidence: What do we learn about Eric from his story? How may Eric be the most socially aware character before the play begins and as the story unfolds?
ACTORS:
Stage directions
Eric Birling
Inspector Goole
Mrs B.
Sheila Birling
Birling
Gerald Croft

11. ACTORS: Stage directions Eric Birling Inspector Goole Mrs B.
Read Act Three Pp
ACTORS:
Stage directions
Eric Birling
Inspector Goole
Mrs B.
Sheila Birling
Birling
Gerald Croft
Thinking questions:
Why does the Inspector end up ‘taking charge, masterfully’?
What do we learn about the theme of responsibility in this Act?
How does each character react to Gerald’s news and why is there such a contrast in their reactions?
How does this news make each of the characters feel about their part in Eva Smith’s life?
Why does the telephone ring when it does?
How should they react to the news the call brings?
Learning Objective: To respond to texts critically and imaginatively (AO1)
Key words: comprehend, interpret, explore

12. Plenary
Is he a ghost?
Is he the voice of Priestley?
Is he the voice of God?
Is he the voice of our/the character’s consciences?
Do you have any other suggestions?
On a post-it, write who you think the Inspector is and explain why. Remember to think critically and imaginatively when justifying your answers.
Learning Objective: To analyse character development
Key words: comprehend, interpret, explore

13. Time to reflect… 1 thing you need more help with…
Complete the Plenary task in your exercise books
1 thing you need more help with…
2 things you want to know more about…
3 things you have learned this lesson…

14. HOMEWORK
Writing to explain: Write an article for a broadsheet newspaper explaining the events that have taken place in the Birling household.
DUE: