The document provides guidance for students on writing a diary entry from the perspective of Mrs. Birling after her interrogation by the Inspector in An Inspector Calls. It includes instructions to analyze Mrs. Birling's character and speech based on passages from the text, develop a terminology list, annotate examples in groups, and write a 10 minute diary entry using words and phrases that reflect Mrs. Birling's personality. Students are then asked to peer assess each other's writing using a WWW (What Went Well) and EBI (Even Better If) format.

1. AN INSPECTOR CALLS
LO: To understand Mrs. Birling’s character and her register
To write a empathetic diary entry as Mrs. Birling

2. HOMEWORK
• Terminology list
• Swap with the person next to you
• Peer assessment

3. READ PAGES 29 – 30
• What has just happened?
• When reading, think about how might Mrs.
Birling might be feeling/her tone

4. GROUP TASK
• Using the terminology table
• Identify the different examples in the extract
• Annotate it – what does it show about Mrs. Birling’s
character?
• In groups of 4 or 5
• Carousel
• In your groups, you have 2 minutes to annotate as many
stylistic features of Mrs. Birling’s speech
• Once the 2 minutes is up, one person passes it around to
the next group

5. FEEDBACK - MINDMAP
• When groups are giving feedback, write
down some utterances or words in a
mindmap that you think are really
important to show Mrs. Birling’s personality
• If you think of other words, add it to your
mindmap!

6. INDEPENDENT WRITING TASK
• Mrs. Birling is recollecting her interrogation by
the Inspector. Write a diary entry focusing on
her first interaction with the Inspector
• Use words and utterances that you think Mrs.
Birling would use
10 minutes
Challenge –
include contextual
information from
the previous
pages

7. IF YOU WANT HELP…
How dare he? This poorly educated man coming into my
delightful house and accusing me of such a disgusting
crime...
What an absolute imbecile. He needs to learn a few
manners...brainwashing my daughter and accusing me of
such a crime.
I knew this man was bad news when I saw him. He was
similar to my husband...dominant, feisty, but seemed to care
about others. What is the world coming to?

8. PEER ASSESSMENT
1. Have they established an appropriate tone for Mrs.
Birling?
2. Have they used appropriate words as if they were
Mrs. Birling?
3. Have they used appropriate utterances as if they
were Mrs. Birling?
4. SPaG errors
Write a WWW and EBI for the student

9. PLENARY
• On a post-it note, write down ONE original
word, phrase or utterance that you think
Mrs. Birling would use in her speech or
written work
• Stick it onto the A3 paper at the front