Showing posts with label An Inspector Calls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label An Inspector Calls. Show all posts

Saturday, 27 February 2016

An Inspector Calls: Act Two Questions


Click the image to access the Act Two questions. Download to your desktop.  Follow the instructions and type up your answers.

You need to PRINT OFF your work to hand it in.

Friday, 29 January 2016

An Inspector Calls - Act One revision/consolidation.



Complete the questions on Act One of the play, by JB Priestley.   



You should answer all questions in detail. Remember to back up your points with quotations from the play. 


There is a rough guide as to how much to write for each question. Type up your answers in a Word document.  Print off your work, once you have finished.


Click here, to access the questions.




Friday, 1 January 2016

Social Class: general definitions and divisions.

Social class = a division of society based on social or economic (money) divides.


The division between each social class used to be more defined than today.  There are historically three main social classes in Great Britain. Please bear in mind that these are general definitions and divisions.

Upper class = people with wealth that has been passed down over generations ('old money').  People in this social class usually have their money in the form of property or land e.g. country houses, town houses or both.  Members of this social class usually have a high status in society, and are well respected.  They also usually have access to the best education and schools.  Think Lady Mary Crawley from Downton Abbey:




Middle class = people who have property and money that they made themselves through business or manufacturing/industry.  Members of this social class are more likely to create or own businesses and employ people to work in that business.  These people are usually educated and 'self-made' people.  They are also generally well respected in society. Think Ben Harper from My Family and manufacturers in the Victorian era:






Working class = people who work for their money, usually doing some form of manual work or factory labour.  They are the employees not the employers.  Generally people from this social class are thought to be closer to poverty than members of the other classes, i.e. if they lost their job, they would struggle to afford to feed their families or house themselves. Think Daisy from Downton Abbey, the family in Raised by Wolves and Jim from The Royale Family: 





Social Class Quiz - preparation for An Inspector Calls.


Before completing this post, you should have read the general definitions and divisions of social classes in Great Britain, in the above post. 

To do:

  • Take the two social class quizzes by clicking the images at the bottom of this post (one is a BBC quiz and one is a BuzzFeed quiz)
  • Take note of your result for each quiz, and think about the questions they ask you in order to generate your result
  • Create a Word document and type up your answers to the following questions.  Answer in full sentences:
  1. What social class does the BBC quiz say you are?
  2. What social class does the BuzzFeed quiz say you are?
  3. Do you agree with your results?  You must clearly justify your response.
  4. Think about the types of questions each quiz posed to generate your result.  Did anything surprise or interest you about the things they used to define your social class?  Explain what and why.
  5. What do you think about social class?  Do you think it is relevant today?  Do you think we need it or need to know about it?  Do you think it is important, or will affect your life in any way?  You must clearly justify your answer.
BBC Class Quiz

BuzzFeed Class Quiz