Timeline resource designed for students to study the 1912 to 1945 British context of Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, which includes direct links to major themes and key quotations from characters. The resource is packed with 35 quotes from the play, over 20 contextually relevant facts and statistics relating to the key themes, and insights into Priestley’s own life. Easily printable onto a landscape A4 page. An accompanying visual aid poster can be found on the second page, providing contextually relevant images (including contemporary posters and cartoons) that can be printed on the reverse-side of the timeline itself. This resource package also includes the ‘Inspector Calls Theme Map’ resource advertised within my shop, as a complimentary activity sheet that works alongside the poster. Theme maps are immensely useful for generating personalised quotation banks for the play’s major themes and key characters.

An informative, attractive, in-depth, PowerPoint that provides great contextual points for students to consider while reading Shakespeare’s Jacobean plays, such as Macbeth, Tempest and King Lear. Perfect revision or teaching resource for introducing key aspects of Jacobean England to those studying the play. Contains 10 slides, including: Shakespeare’s biography; Jacobean England; Power and monarchy (including the medieval feudal system, great chain of being and two swords doctrine); court life and class; marriage and sexuality; religion; witchcraft; and settings and genre. The information in this PowerPoint can be delivered over an hour, or several hours, depending on whether additional supplementary reading or writing tasks accompany it. This is a full reworkable PPTX that can be amended as you see fit.