Grade 9 An Inspector Calls Eva Smith Daisy Renton Lesson

This lesson covers key context, an audience and reader’s expectations and reactions, writing a thesis statement, extensive analysis and questioning of key ideas, key quotes with grade 9 analysis notes, as well as a writing frame to support all students.

Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as is an option for debate, a second writing question template, and opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work.

Quotes include:
‘millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left’
“She’d swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out, of course”
"Young and fresh and charming”
“Pretty”
“isn’t it a beauty?”

Works towards:
How does Priestley present Eva Smith as powerless?
How does Priestley present the lower class in An Inspector Calls?