Year 10 English Ark Globe Academy Remote Learning Pack

Year 10 English Ark Globe Academy Remote Learning Pack Year 10 English: An Inspector Calls Please complete all written work in the exercise book provided by the school You can use the following link if there is an issue with your text. https://www.scribd.com/document/440455067/An-Inspector-Calls-Full-Text-1-pdf Day Title Work to be completed Resource Outcome On-Line provided Support 1 Context: Read resource 1. Resource 1 Full sentence Edwardian Answer the following questions: responses to England History: the questions 1. What happened to cities during the early (1 page) 1900s? 2. How did this affect the quality of people’s lives? 3. Explain two factors that were pushing European countries towards war. Society: 1. Explain the differences between the upper, middle and lower classes during Edwardian England. 2. Which class do you expect to wield the most power in society and why? Gender: 1. In what ways were women disadvantages in Edwardian society? 2. When did they finally achieve a limited form of the vote? Technology: 1. How did people initially feel about technological improvement? 2. How did improvements in technology actually have a negative influence on some lives? 2 Context: JB Read resource 3 and answer: Resource 2 Full sentence Priestley 1. What did Priestley do during the Great War? responses to the questions 2. What happened to him whilst he was at war? 3. Why was he famous? 4. What did Priestley want after the war? 5. Which political party did he support? 3 Context: Inspector Calls is a MORALITY PLAY. This means Resource 3 Written list of Morality that one of the things it looks at is the right and examples of Play wrong ways to behave. Although Priestley wasn’t sins (1/2 religious, he used the Christian Roman Catholic idea page) of the seven deadly sins to make his point in the play. This is because they summarise in many ways what people might think of the right and wrong way to behave. However, he updated them to suit his socialist beliefs. For each of these sins – think of an example. 4 Opening Read the opening stage directions from: “Dining room Play: An Full sentence stage of a…” until “pleased with themselves” Inspector Calls answers to directions Answer: questions 1. How can you tell the Birlings are rich? 2. Which character seems the cruellest? Why? 3. Which character seems the kindest? Why? 4. Why are they all together? 5 Read until Here is a list of the major themes. Play: An Quote list for the end of • Responsibility: we are all responsible for Inspector Calls themes. page 7 or each other and our actions affect others until “Eric • Class: class distinctions are old fashioned. – I want Those in upper classes are equal to, not you a better than those in the working class. minute” • Women: women are treated unfairly and their voice isn’t listened to. • Age: the young are the hope for the future – the old are too stuck in their ways. Give a quote which shows each of the themes in the opening 6 Read pages 1. “unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.” The Play: An Full sentence 6-10 from titanic did sink. What impression does Inspector Calls answers to “Just let me Priestley give of Mr Birling in this opening? questions finish Eric..” 2. ‘your mother feels you might have done until “after better for yourself socially.’ What could this himself and suggest about Edwardian attitudes to class? his own – What does it suggest about the Croft family’s and –“ class status specifically? 3. ‘The man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own’. What does this suggest to us about Birling’s attitudes towards community and/or the individual? 7 Read pages 1. What evidence can you see that it’s getting Play: An Full sentence 10-12 from tense once the doorbell rings? Inspector Calls answers to “We heard 2. How is the Inspector described? What does questions the sharp this make the audience feel about him? ring of…” 3. Why is it important that the Inspector until doesn’t take the things Birling offers him? “otherwise, 4. What does Eric’s reaction reveal about him? there’s a 5. Why is it important the inspector interrupts muddle.” Mr Birling? 6. How does Gerald react to the inspector? Why? Challenge: Who commands the most power in this scene? Why has Priestley done this? 8 Read pages 1. Which stage direction shows Birling is Play: An Full sentence 13-15 from uncomfortable? Inspector Calls answers to “I see. 2. How does Mr Birling speak to Eric? What questions Sensible does this reveal about him? really…” 3. Birling says “I can’t accept any responsibility” until “they – How does this link to Priestley’s views of might. But capitalism? after all it’s 4. Do you agree with Birling’s views on page better to 14? Explain why or why not. ask for the 5. “I refused, of course” – do you think Birling earth than listened to the women? to take it.” 6. Where does Eric disagree with his father? 7. What do you think of Birling’s decision to fire the girls? 9 Inspector’s Complete the worksheet on resource 4. Resource 4. Completed entrance and detailed worksheet. 10 Birling Explore Priestley’s presentation of Mr Birling in the Play: An 1 page essay. essay opening of ‘An Inspector Calls.’ Inspector Calls You need to write a page which includes: Topic sentences A range of quotes Close analysis A link to context. Year 9 English: An Inspector Calls Resource 1 – Context CONTEXT IN INSPECTOR CALLS - Edwardian England 1910 – 1914 History By 1910 the world was changing a lot. The Industrial Revolution in the 19th Century had changed the world and countries were becoming dependent on factories and heavy industry. Society was also changing from being largely rural – people living in the countryside and on farms – to being largely urban – living in the city. Cities could often not cope with the influx of people – huge numbers came to the city to work in factories. This often led to poverty and many people were paid very poor wages. There was also no National Health Service and the state did not often provide an education which meant health issues were serious and many were uneducated. Between countries there was a lot of tension. Most countries in Europe were ruled by monarchs while people in many European countries, and especially in Russia, were pushing for democracy. By 1910 it was clear to a lot of people that a war was coming as alliances were formed between nations and disagreements about territory increased. This eventually led to the outbreak of war in 1914 and the start of WW1. Society European societies were highly stratified. This means that people belonged to distinct classes that it was very difficult to move between. The so-called upper classes were people who had inherited their wealth and land, were usually members of the aristocracy (lords, barons, princes and so on). The middle classes were professional people – those who in business or who had a salaried job that had come about through education. They were accountants, clerks, doctors and teachers. Although within the middle-classes there were clear differences between the wealthy middle classes and the less wealthy – people who were clerks, teachers or nurses for example. The working class were people who worked with their hands. These often had no or only some education. They mostly worked in factories or in peoples’ houses. You could call their type of labour menial – it didn’t require a lot of training. Many working class and middle class – what people might consider to be people began pushing for workers to be unionised. Gender Women had very little power in the early 20th Century. They were disenfranchised – which means they couldn’t vote. There was a women’s movement pushing for women to be able to vote at the time – the Suffragettes – but it wasn’t until 1918 that women were given the franchise, and even then it was only some. Women also didn’t have a choice in the household. A man was regarded as the head of the household. In richer households where there were a number of rooms, men and women wouldn’t sit together after dinner. Middle class women tended not to work. Although they could marry for love, women still often had to marry the man they were expected to. Men and women certainly didn’t marry someone not part of their class although richer middle class families might marry people from the upper class. Women also weren’t necessarily educated and if they were they tended to do lower paying jobs such as teaching and being a nurse. Technology There were massive technological advances in the early nineteenth century. People were often very positive about what technology could achieve. Aeroplanes had just been invented as had cars. A very famous ship called the Titanic was built that people believed was unsinkable. However, people’s faith in the positive nature of technology was destroyed as it was discovered the impact of technology and its vulnerabilities. For example, the unsinkable Titanic sank on its maiden voyage. New technologies like machine guns, automatic pistols, tanks and bombs meant people were killed in WW1 on an industrial scale. Industrialisation also meant many lost their jobs as factories made them redundant. Resource 2 – JB Priestley John Priestley (he added Boynton later on) was born in Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 13 September 1894.

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