1. Well done – on Monday you completed English language paper 1 – Fiction.
November 14th: English literature paper 2 – Modern texts
This paper looks at ‘An Inspector Calls’, Power and Conflict poetry and unseen poetry. Our lessons this week will be geared towards preparing you for this paper.
Don’t forget to use the blog:

2. Title: Stage directions, foreshadowing and dramatic irony
Homework IN: English language revision booklet
Homework OUT: Revision booklet
Title: Stage directions, foreshadowing and dramatic irony
Date: 20 November 2018
Objective: Can I explore the methods Priestley uses in An Inspector Calls?a character, their purpose and
development in the play
Learning Outcomes
Grade
Key Words
All
I can use quotations from the play to discuss stage directions. I can begin to explore what they might suggest about the characters they stand for. 2
Inference
Quotations
Stage directions
Foreshadowing
Dramatic irony 3
Most
I can use well-chosen quotations from the play to discuss stage directions and foreshadowing. I can explore what they might stand for and what Priestley was trying to infer. 4 5
Some
I can use apt quotations and details from the play to discuss stage directions, foreshadowing and dramatic irony. I can analyse a range of inferences and how Priestley uses language and structure to establish them. 6 7
Numeracy
Considering historical time periods
Literacy
Using inference
SMSC
& Values
Working together

3. Homework IN: Booklet is due in on February 10th
Homework OUT: Revision booklet
Title: Stage directions, foreshadowing and dramatic irony
Date: 20 November 2018
Objective: Can I explore the methods Priestley uses in An Inspector Calls?a character, their purpose and
development in the play
Starter
Grade
All
Can you remember the name of two of the devices Priestley used in the play?
2-3
Most
Can you choose a device Priestley uses and explain what impact it would have on the audience?
4-5
Some
Can you explain which device Priestley uses to take advantage of the fact his audience were watching a play set in the past?
6-7
Numeracy
Considering historical time periods
Literacy
Using inference
SMSC
& Values
Working together

4. English Literature Personalised Learning Checklist
Assessment
Objective
AO1
1. I show an understanding of the key ideas in the play.
2. I show an understanding of the key themes in the play.
3. I use details from the play in my answer.
AO2
4. I can explain the effects of specific words and phrases.
5. I can explain the effect of structure.
6. I have explored the question in detail.
7. I can explain why Priestley has made certain structural decisions.
AO3
8. I can explain Priestley’s purpose and the effect it has on the reader.
9.I use a range of quotations to support the points I am making.
10. I develop an interpretation of the key ideas and explore this fully throughout my answer.
11. My answer is detailed and should be at least 2 sides.
12. I can analyse the language choices Priestley makes, discussing alternative possible interpretations.
13. I can discuss context.
14. I can explain how contextual information helps us understand the play.
SPAG
AO4
15. My spelling and grammar is clear and accurate.
16. I have structured my answer to make the meaning clear.
17. I can use punctuation accurately, including when I am using details from the text.
18. I can use key terms in my answer. e.g. play, characters, audience, dramatic irony.

5. Homework IN: Booklet is due in on February 10th
Homework OUT: Revision booklet
Title: Stage directions, foreshadowing and dramatic irony
Date: 20 November 2018
Objective: Can I explore the methods Priestley uses in An Inspector Calls?a character, their purpose and
development in the play
In your answers you must be able to discuss how Priestley presents his characters and ideas. Each table will be given a key term to define in no more than twenty words. Be prepared to share and explain to your classmates how they can spot this technique.
Numeracy
Considering historical time periods
Literacy
Using inference
SMSC
& Values
Working groups

6. Dramatic irony
Foreshadowing
Stage directions

7. Homework IN: Booklet is due in on February 10th
Homework OUT: Revision booklet
Title: Stage directions, foreshadowing and dramatic irony
Date: 20 November 2018
Objective: Can I explore the methods Priestley uses in An Inspector Calls?a character, their purpose and
development in the play
Move around the room, filling out your grids and analysing the quotations on display.
Challenge: can you use a copy of the text to find your own examples of the three techniques?
Numeracy
Considering historical time periods
Literacy
Using inference
SMSC
& Values
Working groups

8. ‘And I say there isn’t a chance of war...’ (Mr Birling)
‘But take my word for it, you youngsters - and I've learnt in the good hard school of experience - that a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own - and -
(We hear the sharp ring of a front door bell).
(Mr Birling)
the Titanic – she sails next week -...unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’ (Mr Birling)
‘And I say there isn’t a chance of war...’ (Mr Birling)
Inspector (massively taking charge) Allow me, Miss Birling.
‘We’re in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity’ (Mr Birling)
We hear the sharp ring of a front door bell.
Act One
GERALD (laughs): You seem to be a nice well-behaved family -
BIRLING: We think we are -

9. ‘let’s say in by that time you’ll be living in a world that will have forgotten all these Capital versus Labour agitations and all these silly little war scares. There’ll be peace and prosperity and rapid progress everywhere.’ (Mr Birling)
‘If we are all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward, wouldn’t it?’ (Mr Birling)
(The dining room of a fairly large suburban house, belonging to a prosperous manufacturer. It has good solid furniture of the period. At the moment they have all had a good dinner, are celebrating a special occasion, and are pleased with themselves).
(looking extremely pale and distressed) (Eric)
Sheila (half serious, half playful) Yes – except for all last summer, when you never came near me”
(Sheila to Gerald)
Mrs Birling (smiling, social) Good evening, Inspector.

10. (At rise of curtain, the four BIRLINGS and GERALD are seated at the table, with ARTHUR BIRLING at one end, his wife at the other, ERIC downstage, and SHEILA and GERALD seated upstage. EDNA, the parlourmaid, is just clearing the table, which has no cloth, of dessert plates and champagne glasses, etc., and replacing them with decanter of port, cigar box and cigarettes. Port glasses are already on the table. All five are in the evening dress of the period, the men in tails and white ties, not dinner jackets).
(GERALD CROFT is an attractive chap about thirty…very much the easy well-bred young-man-about-town).
‘You’ll hear some people say that war’s inevitable. And to that I say - fiddlesticks!’ (Mr Birling)
Sheila (laughs rather hysterically) Why – you fool – he knows. Of course he knows.

11. What the quotation suggests
Methods used
What the quotation suggests
e.g. ‘The lighting should be pink and intimate until the INSPECTOR arrives, and then it should be brighter and harder.’
Stage directions
Foreshadowing
Priestley uses stage directions to suggest that the inspector’s arrival signifies that the Birling’s family dinner is no longer warm and “intimate”. The “brighter and harder” light perhaps foreshadows how harshly they are about to be scrutinised.

12. Quotation
Method used
What the quotation suggests

13. English Literature Personalised Learning Checklist
Assessment
Objective
AO1
1. I show an understanding of the key ideas in the play.
2. I show an understanding of the key themes in the play.
3. I use details from the play in my answer.
AO2
4. I can explain the effects of specific words and phrases.
5. I can explain the effect of structure.
6. I have explored the question in detail.
7. I can explain why Priestley has made certain structural decisions.
AO3
8. I can explain Priestley’s purpose and the effect it has on the reader.
9.I use a range of quotations to support the points I am making.
10. I develop an interpretation of the key ideas and explore this fully throughout my answer.
11. My answer is detailed and should be at least 2 sides.
12. I can analyse the language choices Priestley makes, discussing alternative possible interpretations.
13. I can discuss context.
14. I can explain how contextual information helps us understand the play.
SPAG
AO4
15. My spelling and grammar is clear and accurate.
16. I have structured my answer to make the meaning clear.
17. I can use punctuation accurately, including when I am using details from the text.
18. I can use key terms in my answer. e.g. play, characters, audience, dramatic irony.

14. Homework IN: Booklet is due in on February 10th
Homework OUT: Revision booklet
Title: Stage directions, foreshadowing and dramatic irony
Date: 20 November 2018
Objective: Can I explore the methods Priestley uses in An Inspector Calls?a character, their purpose and
development in the play
Move around the room, filling out your grids and analysing the quotations on display.
Challenge: can you use a copy of the text to find your own examples of the three techniques?
Numeracy
Considering historical time periods
Literacy
Using inference
SMSC
& Values
Working groups

15. 4
Section A: Modern prose or drama
Answer one question from this section on your chosen text.
JB Priestley: An Inspector Calls
How does Priestley explore the idea of responsibility?
Write about:
• The different ideas about responsibility that are discussed in the play
• how Priestley explores the idea of responsibility by the ways he writes
[30 marks]
AO4 [4 marks]
Can you use the quotations you’ve analysed today to create a mind-map for the question above?

16. Finish your answer for homework!4
Section A: Modern prose or drama
Answer one question from this section on your chosen text.
JB Priestley: An Inspector Calls
How does Priestley explore the idea of responsibility?
Write about:
• The different ideas about responsibility that are discussed in the play
• how Priestley explores the idea of responsibility by the ways he writes
[30 marks]
AO4 [4 marks]
Can you have a go at writing at least one paragraph in answer to the question?
Finish your answer for homework!

17. Help sheet: Peter C
Point: At the beginning of the play, Mr Birling is presented as…. Unlike his children, by the end of the play he
Evidence: In the first scene Mr Birling claims that social responsibility doesn’t exist. He refers to “community and all that nonsense”.
Technique/device (if you can find one): The word “nonsense” demonstrates how…
Effect on the Reader: Priestley has used this so that…
Context: In 1912…