An Inspector Calls Revision Tarsia

A tarsia is a jigsaw puzzle that you solve by matching up sides of small triangles. This building of triangles results in the creation of a bigger shape (in this case a bigger triangle). Tarsias encourage teamwork and problem solving skills.

This challenging revision tarsia asks GCSE English Literature students to match An Inspector Calls terminology with quotes/evidence from the text. Suitable for developing students’ knowledge of terminology and for revising key quotes. See below for some suggested activities - this resource could be used as a short starter activity, or as a stimulus for a whole lesson.

Teacher note: The tarsia is in its solved form. Cut these up (or ask a helpful tutor group to) before giving them to the students.

**Suggested activities: **

Starter: Put your tarsia together in your group/pair (be careful, some quotes might match more than one technique, but there is only one way to put the whole triangle together)!
Activity 1: Once you have put your tarsia together, pick three paired quotes/techniques. Write a paragraph analysing each. You must: explain which theme/idea/message in the text it relates to, give the evidence/quote, label the technique, analyse how the use of that technique/language reinforces the writer’s message, and include contextual awareness.
Activity 2: When you are finished, join your group/pair again and make your own revision tarsia on any of the following: quotes and techniques (as above), context points and how they influence the text, key quotes and the characters that speak them, or key quotes and the themes they relate to. When you have finished, swap tarsias with another group/pair and solve them.