An Inspector Calls - key themes and quotations (Teaching and Learning activities)

A series of key themes/ideas and quotations for An Inspector Calls

32 cards which contain quotations from all three Acts of An Inspector Calls.

The pack comes with seven engaging teaching and learning ideas to use with them.

Students love these resources and they are a great tool to support students’ understanding of the play and help students to memorise key quotations (a key exam skill).

Teaching and learning ideas that come with the pack are:

1. Lower ability: arrange quotes in chronological order. Use this then to talk through key points in the text (in chronological order to ensure students have sound knowledge).
2. Essay planning: show students essay title. Identify key theme. Students then select five/six quotations from the text that they will use when responding to the task. This provides students with a structure to their response.
3. Focusing on how writers structure texts: students select a quotation from the exposition, development and resolution of the text. Students are to then discuss/explain how these quotations connect to one another.
4. Connections: paired work. Students each select a quotation; they then discuss how their two chosen quotes can be connected to one another (could work particularly well for the poetry quotations).
5. Evaluation: give students theme or character. Students select quotations (three) which they think are most significant for this theme or character. Discussion based activity where students justify their choices.
6. Memory games: can be set for homework activities or starter/plenaries. Students are challenged to memorise quotes or a certain number of quotes – Act 1 for Macbeth for example. Test and re-test so that quotations “stick”.
7. Language analysis: select quotation(s) – students provide a close analysis of the language used by the writer (authorial method/dramatic methods). Students write PEEL paragraph analysing the quotation. Students can be directed to focus on the following
   Which themes could this quote relate to?
   What method(s) is the writer using in the quote?
   What is the significance of this quote?