Year 10. The Sign of Four: Watson in Chapters 1 and 2.

You will need to use your skimming and scanning reading skills for this activity. You will need Chapters 1 and 2 of The Sign of Four to hand. Print off your responses when you have finished.

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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.

11A6: About A Boy independent extract analysis

You will need your copy of About A Boy to complete the tasks set this lesson.

• You are going to use the lesson to independently analyse two extracts from the text 
• Then, you are going to type up one extract response in 20 minutes.

Remember to use Hornby's name lots, and to indicate HOW Hornby is presenting the character.

Follow the instructions on the Word document, and complete the activities.  Click the image above, to access the document.

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.


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An Inspector Calls - Audio

11A6: About A Boy. Marcus.

Make sure you have done the student voice survey, before completing this activity.

You are going to use this lesson to consolidate your knowledge of Marcus in About A Boy, by Nick Hornby.  You only have this lesson to complete the task set.

• Click here to access a Word document with facts about Marcus.  
• You need to download the document to your desktop (to do this, press the arrow at the top of the page, and select download)
• Complete the worksheet.  Read the fact, then write what that fact tells us about Marcus
• Print out your work before the end of the lesson.

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: