Inspector Calls GCSE full scheme of work, 140 slides PLUS resources - play fiction

This resource includes a massive 140 slide PPT, updated in 2022, of lessons designed for the teaching of An Inspector Calls for GCSE students. The PPT is suitable for all abilities, with challenge and stretch elements that can easily be omitted for weaker pupils. It has been written for AQA, but could be adapted for other examination boards with a few tweaks.

The PPT contains around 20-25 lessons depending on how you choose to divide the activities up. There are a range of task styles and information collated across 10 years of teaching this play. The PPT covers the following aspects:

• Social/ historical context - research activity and image interrogation
• notes on socialism, capitalism, Priestley and Churchill
• Non-fiction cross-over lesson, writing an article about the Titanic. Also includes a real article published for analysis
• Props and setting - illustrating and labelling task
• First impressions of characters
• Morality exercise (linking the play to modern day)
• Attitude and language - analysing language used by characters
• Focus on Sheila, including a model exam response
• dramatic devices in act 1
• Review of act 1, including timeline of events, purpose and intent of author, key plot points
• theme discussion - social responsibility and contrasts, linked to London riots and the contrast between the younger and older generations
• comparing Mr Birling and Inspector, with 2x modelled paragraphs
• reference to exam mark schemes
• comparing Sheila and Eva - plotting their attitudes
• Key themes and info on each (group task) Ouspensky and Dunne theories for challenge and stretch
• Entrances and exits (specifically in act 2)
• Exam skills and exam practice (with scaffolded method for responses, model paragraphs and reference to mark schemes)
• Context - women in 1912, Suffrage, power balances etc
• Revision of plot

Now including a bonus extra introductory lesson - a CSI style discussion of the play!