Grade 9 An Inspector Calls Setting Lesson

This lesson focuses on the opening stage directions as a way for students to use structure in their responses. The slides include extensive analysis of possible quotes, thoughtful extensive analysis on class, and a question for independent student work with a writing frame to support all students. Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work.

This lesson also covers key context, including politics, gender, and the impact of war.

Quotes included are:
“The lighting should be pink and intimate until the INSPECTOR arrives and then it should be brighter and harder.”
“EDNA, the parlourmaid, is just clearing the table … of the dessert plates and champagne glasses”
“substantial and heavily comfortable but not cosy and homelike”
“decanter of port, cigar box and cigarettes”

Working towards:
How does Priestley present the theme of social class in An Inspector Calls?