2 worksheets to 2/3 lessons which encourage students to explore the impact of the stage directions in An Inspector Calls.
Sheet 1: 18 differentiated questions based on the initial stage directions.
Sheet 2: A knowledge organiser which picks out key quotations for each member of the Birling Family before, during and after the interrogation. The students then answer the 15 questions to explore the characters’ subtle changes in behaviour through the play.
I have other resources available for An Inspector Calls:
Bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-aqa-1-9-differentiated-birling-sheila-11412310
Revision Cards:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/theme-revision-cards-for-an-inspector-calls-12124143
Knowledge Organisers
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-4-ultimate-revision-sheets-themes-character-stage-directions-cards-11574057
Revision quotations:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-test-on-10-quotations-per-character-9-1-revision-12138293
50 Questions over 50 Slides on Romeo and Juliet. The questions go through the key plot points and quotations chronologically. There is the answer slide at the end to allow students to mark the quiz themselves.
Updated bundle for 2025 containing all my best resources on A Christmas Carol.
Includes:
9 grade 9 model answers
Comprehension questions on all staves
Revision Flash Cards
Writing frames
Scrooge Analysis lessons
Fred Analysis lesson
Bob Analysis lesson
9 Step method for grade 9
Quotation/Knowledge organisers.
Sample exam questions
Revision of big ideas
Top 50 quotation revision task with answers
Differentiated worksheets for exploring the ghosts
Lesson on Fezziwig
Lesson on women in the novel
Lessons on the ghosts
30+ page printable booklet.
Plus lots more.
I have tried to fit all my best A Christmas Carol resources into here. If I have missed any, send me a message and I will send them over.
To save time on the download, click on the resource called ‘A Christmas Carol - everything you need to teach the novella’. Most of the resources can be found in here.
A timeline that traces the development of the supernatural across the whole play.
Also included as a cut and stick kinesthetic activity where students must put the boxes into the correct order.
Also contains revision cards containing high level analysis of 6 key quotations linked to the supernatural.
Also contains a high grade response to a question on the supernatural in the play.
Comprehension revision for this key theme that could come up in the 2023 exam.
Also includes a lesson looking at how to structure a response.
I like to revise BIG IDEAS for my final revision lesson. This lesson is student led.
Students create a mind map 6 BIG IDEAS about Romeo and Juliet using the 3 knowledge organisers to help them form their ideas.
Also includes 6 sample exam questions on one A3 sheet for ease of photocopying. The 6 questions are my predictions for what might come up in 2019.
I have carefully selected 25 key quotations from A Christmas Carol from across the novel. . Each card contains detailed notes linked to the three assessment objects A01, A02 and A03. The notes are colour-coded to help with this. Also methods are underlined to help students see how they meeting the requirements for A02.
There is also a blank template which I give students first to see how much they already know about these top 25 quotations.
Also contains analysis of the 10 key words to analyse in the text.
Also includes:
A timeline revision activity for A Christmas Carol that asks students to offer 3 layers of analysis for 13 key Scrooge quotations to help track his transformation in the novel from a solitary miser to a redeemed philanthropist.
A01: What is the meaning of the quotation?
A02: What is the impact of words/methods?
A03: What is Dickens’ message in this quotation?
Comprehensive answer sheet is included. I give this out at the end of the lesson so students can compare their answers to it.
Ideal revision activity in the run up to the May examinations.
A timeline revision activity for A Christmas Carol that asks students to offer 3 layers of analysis for 13 key Scrooge quotations to help track his transformation in the novel from a solitary miser to a redeemed philanthropist.
A01: What is the meaning of the quotation?
A02: What is the impact of words/methods?
A03: What is Dickens’ message in this quotation?
Comprehensive answer sheet is included. I give this out at the end of the lesson so students can compare their answers to it.
Ideal revision activity in the run up to the May examinations.
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40 comprehension questions covering 8 poems.
Ideal to use as starters or as a knowledge mini test.
Includes an answer sheet.
I do have other power and conflict resources available:
Bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-11626301
Model answers:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-grade-9-model-essays-12213236
Revision cards:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-cards-12107049
8 worksheets and resources focused on exploring themes in Animal Farm. Includes resources focused on:
- Identifying the key themes in the novel
- Identifying ‘super extracts’ which can be used to cover various themes
- Model responses to themes in the novel
- Structuring responses
Analysis sheet and key quotations sheet for 6 key motifs in Macbeth: blood, darkness, weather, animals, clothing and illness. The sheets can be used in lots of different ways to assist with revision.
Classic end of term lesson discussing who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet in groups.
Includes the success criteria for the new speaking and listening GCSE on each slide.
There are 6 planning sheets to help students plan their role for the following 6 characters:
Judge
Romeo
Friar
Mercutio
Tybalt
Capulet
The planning sheet explains how each character could be responsible and invites students to plan their defence.
This comprehensive lesson and pack contains a full range of resources to help students understand the character of Mrs Birling in ‘An Inspector Calls’. The resources have been created for the AQA 9-1 2017 onwards English Literature Paper 2 examination.
A list of her lines throughout the play
A mid/high level model essay
An incomplete model essay to develop
A differentiated carousel activity to promote insightful thinking about the character
An essay plan
An essay checklist
An evidence finding worksheet
A mind map to complete
There is also an essay plan for a response on Mr Birling.
An essay plan template (with answer sheet) to help students write up a response to the following AQA 1-9 style question:
How does Priestley use Gerald to explore ideas about responsibility. (34 marks)
Includes a mid level exemplar for students to compare their work against.
The essay plan includes points, precisely selected quotations about Gerald and opportunities for students to extend their analysis to move towards a top grade response.
I have other resources available for An Inspector Calls:
Bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-aqa-1-9-differentiated-birling-sheila-11412310
Revision Cards:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/theme-revision-cards-for-an-inspector-calls-12124143
Knowledge Organisers
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-4-ultimate-revision-sheets-themes-character-stage-directions-cards-11574057
Revision quotations:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-test-on-10-quotations-per-character-9-1-revision-12138293
A term of resources covering everything you need to teach ‘An Inspector Calls’ for the 9-1 GCSE. Includes lessons, essay plans on all 7 characters, various model responses, carefully selected quotations, notes on themes and relevant points about context for A03 and lots of helpful worksheets! Check out the many previews to see what you will be getting.
Plus lots more that I keep adding.
New for 2023, I have collated some of the best resources into a 43 page revision booklet for ease of printing and downloading.
PowerPoint revises 6 quotations for each of the following big ideas in the novel:
Poverty is a serious problem
Material leads to isolation
Supernatural as a catalyst for redemption
The rich have a responsibility to help the poor
Christmas is a joyful time
Family is important
For each quotation, the inferences are written in short hand to help students make precise and concise notes.
They are animated so teachers can talk through them one by one to build up the layers of inference.
Selected annotations on Tissue and Ozymandias followed by a writing frame to compare the ways power presented in the two poems. Ideal for low ability students or for students writing comparative responses for the first time.
To push the more able, there are questions to encourage students to annotate Tissue independently.
Also includes a high level exemplar response.
20 Quotations revisions cards covering 20 of the most important quotations in the novella. These are aimed at high ability students to help ensure their analysis of quotations is thorough and perceptive to meet the Band 5 or 6 stages of the mark scheme.
Each card contains detailed notes linked to the three assessment objects A01, A02 and A03. The notes are colour-coded to help with this. Also methods are underlined to help students see how they meeting the requirements for A02.
Simply cut out each revision card and fold them to create double sided cards with the quotation on the front and the analysis on the back.
Also presented as an A3 knowledge organiser.
Also contains a version with the A03 removed for 14 quotations so students have to add in the A03 using the following prompt:
A03 – Zoom out of the text. What is Dickens’ authorial message/big idea for his 19th century reader? What are the relevant 19th century contextual factors?
A03+ What makes the ideas in this text relevant to human beings NOW? What key concepts or universal truths about being human, or part of society, or a part of a relationship, or alive in the world, are being presented in this text?
Also contains an additional resource with intentionally concise notes on 20 key words from the novella to zoom in on.
Check out my shop for other A Christmas Carol resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-theme-revision-cards-poverty-isolation-ghosts-christmas-family-11869145
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-gcse-differentiated-revision-sheets-on-themes-and-context-11387723
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/stave-1-and-stave-5-scrooge-s-transformation-in-a-christmas-carol-11503154
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-grade-9-lesson-and-essays-on-ghosts-11552659
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-100-comprehension-questions-with-answer-sheet-12450748
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/revise-themes-in-a-christmas-carol-family-isolation-poverty-charity-christmas-supernatural-11577227
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/grade-9-a-christmas-carol-exam-responses-12220340
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-top-50-quotations-11901568
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-3-grade-9-model-answers-for-eduqas-gcse-exam-style-11797550
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/grade-9-response-on-poverty-in-a-christmas-carol-12512988
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/6-grade-9-model-essays-on-a-christmas-carol-for-aqa-or-eduqas-11896608
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-aqa-1-9-super-bundle-11532059#