An Inspector Calls Act 2 Lesson Essay Practise

Covers mainly The Inspector, Gerald and Mrs Birling, considering gender and class. Fully differentiated and ready to go lesson, which can be done in 2-4 hours depending on which slides you use.

This lesson covers key context, an audience and reader’s expectations and reactions, extensive analysis and questioning of key ideas, key quotes chosen with analysis notes, as well as a writing frame to support all students.

Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are targets for students to use to mark and improve their own work.

Quotes include:
“Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility.”
“She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position.”
“I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women … She was very pretty – soft brown hair and big dark eyes”
“gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help”
“All she wanted was to talk – a little friendliness – and I gathered that Joe Meggarty’s advances had left her rather shaken”
“she was desperately hard up and at that moment was actually hungry”
“She felt there’d never be anything as good again for her”

Works towards:
How is Mrs Birling presented throughout the play?