 Hello, and welcome back to yet another GCSE revision lesson. Now, this is actually a highly requested video from those of you who are sitting the edXcel syllabus of the English Literature Paper 1 and Paper 2 exams. And more specifically, lots of you guys have said, Barbara, is it possible for you to go over how to write a model response for inspector calls, which appears in part B of the English Literature Paper 1 exams. These are going to be the first of the exams that you're going to be sitting as part of your English Literature GCSEs. Now, let's begin by quickly recapping the English Literature Paper 1 exams. Remember, it's split into two sections. The first is Shakespeare texts. Okay, so you then answer two questions based on your chosen Shakespeare texts. You get an extract. You've got a question to answer based on that extract. It's worth 20 marks. And then you have a question, a broad question related to themes or related to an idea that's explored. And of course, you've got to relate this to other quotations from elsewhere in the play. Okay, that's section A for Shakespeare. However, you've then also got to answer another additional question based on your school's chosen modern text. This appears in section B. And more specifically, what I'm going to be answering is how to write a model response for the inspector calls question. Okay, this is the section B part of the edXcel English Literature Paper 1 exam. Now, remember for this question, it's a bit more challenging. You literally just tend to get a quotation given to you. But then all of the essay that you're going to be producing is based on your own memorized quotations, in addition to, of course, using the quote that you're given as your starting point. However, how do you approach this question? Now, remember, of course, to spend at least 15 minutes on section B. Okay, apportion your time equally. Okay, so a max of 55 minutes for section A, but then at least 50 minutes for section B, because it's worth still half of the overall paper's marks. And of course, spend the first 10 minutes selecting which question you're going to do, you get a choice of two questions relating to an inspector calls, pick one, don't do both, select which one you're going to go for, and then spend the first 10 minutes planning your response. My suggestion in terms of framing your response is start off with an introduction, try to find at least and write up at least four Peel paragraphs. If that's a stretch, go for a minimum of three Peel paragraphs, and then finish off with a conclusion. Okay, this is what I would suggest a grade nine response would look like. Now, what I want to do is to approach and to tackle how to answer the inspector calls exam question that appeared in the Edexcel 2021 exam. Okay, so I'm going to be tackling specifically how to answer the question that came up here. I'm going to pick one of the questions and then I'll show you what my thought process would be if I were to plan and write it. And of course, I'll then walk you through a model response, a grade nine model response that I prepared in terms of this question. So let's get started. So let's dive into how to answer this particular exam question. So as I mentioned, when it comes to approaching this question, you always get a choice of two questions. Okay, so of course, make sure you have your highlight already, you select or you first read through both questions and then you decide whichever question you want to go for. Now, let's have a look. So firstly, you're asked to either select Mrs. Burling. I don't suppose for a moment we can understand why the girl committed suicide, girls of that class. Explain the importance of Mrs. Sibyl Burling in the play. This question is worth 40 marks. So that's the first option that you get or Burling and in this case, of course, if it says Burling, it's Mr. Burling. Already, we've discovered one important fact that that fellow was a fraud and we've been hoaxed. How is appearance significant in an inspector calls? Okay, so of course, here, you've got a character question and here you've got a more general theme question. Okay, so what I'm going to pick is the question that appeals more to me is this character question relating to Mrs. Burling's characters. Of course, having my highlighter handy, I'm going to highlight especially this quotation because I definitely need to make sure I use this quotation as my starting point where she says, I don't suppose for a moment we can understand why the girl committed suicide, girls of that class. Here we can see she's been very dismissive about Daisy Renton and Eva Smith. Of course, when she meets her, she's Daisy Renton and she's been very dismissive. She's saying, these girls, they do all of these dramatic things all the time. These working class girls, girls of that class and she's suggesting that they are somehow inherently immoral. They are terrible people. When I say inherently, by the way, it's inside in their hearts. The way they are made up, they are inherently immoral. This is a good ambitious term to use and especially when Mrs. Burling is saying girls of that class, she's almost categorizing all working class women as these immoral people who just do all of these terrible things simply because they're working class. She really just has this very prejudiced and very biased view against Daisy Renton from this start and of course her attitude never changes towards her. So you're asked to explore the importance keyword of Mrs. Sybil Burling in the play. You must refer to the context of the play in your answer. Now, there's two really important things that this question tends to test you on. Firstly, of course, you've got your subject knowledge of the actual play and this falls under A01. Are you able to answer the question directly? Are you able, especially in this case, to make sure that it's related to Mrs. Burling? Are you able to select also other relevant quotes relating to her character that illustrate her importance in the play? So the first important aspect of answering the question or this question is making sure you are getting your A01 marks. How your interpretation skills? Can you answer the question directly? Are you showing that an awareness of the play? Are you correctly interpreting the question but also are you correctly using quotations that are relevant to this question? The second part of answering this question is your A03 which is highlighted here. You must refer to the context in your play. This is stuff where you're showing your awareness of firstly when the play was set in the Edwardian era. This is 1912. Things that influenced Priestley himself. That's contextual factors and of course things like capitalism, socialism, all of that plays into your A03 marks. So remember this test, your A01 and A03 especially. Now, in terms of approaching this question, I will suggest when structuring your response to this question, make sure your first paragraph is related to the quotation that you were given. It's a gift. The examiners want to see that you firstly know exactly what you are discussing but equally how it's relevant to the quotation that you're given. So make sure you start your first paragraph with this quote. Before you then develop subsequent paragraphs and other paragraphs talking about how Mr Sybil Belling is shown elsewhere. The same applies by the way to this Belling question. When you get the quotation, do not say, oh I'm going to use another point in my essay. If you do that, you run the risk of sometimes getting carried away for getting to use the quotation and that means you're not answering the question in full. You're missing out important A01 marks. Now in terms of structuring your response and as you'll see in my model answer, I would suggest starting off with an introduction. Then you have your first point. So paragraph one relating to the quote that you're given. Then paragraph two, three and four relating to quotations from elsewhere relating to Mrs Sybil Belling and then you finish off with your conclusion. I would suggest if you can try to find interesting contextual points to mention in each paragraph but at minimum you need to mention at least one context point at minimum okay but if you can try to weave in different contextual points and of course this therefore means you need to brush up on your knowledge of all the key characters in the play but of course also important contextual factors to consider within the play okay. So in terms of structuring your response to this, start off with an introduction. Four paragraphs, the first paragraph being related to the question, the quotation you're given. Then three more paragraphs with quotes from elsewhere in the play that you've memorized before you conclude okay. So as I mentioned, I'm going to go for this question and I've actually prepared a model response if you wanted to obviously practice this question and also if you wanted to know how you could write about Mrs Belling's character if she came up in the exam okay. So as you can see here I've started off with my introduction so I'm going to read through my introduction so that you can see that I'm basically establishing what I'm going to discuss and the different aspects of Mrs Belling's character and why she's important in the play. Mrs Belling is a pivotal significant character in the play as she's used as a stark symbol of upper-class prejudice against the poor. Pivotal is a good word to use. Pivotal means important, crucial, significant. As you can see I also reinforce the keywords in the question from the start okay. The question is asking you to talk about how she's important or significant so I'm mentioning that directly. I'm showing my examiner, I understand the assignment, I know what I'm supposed to be talking about. Indeed her character is used by Precy to highlight the hypocrisy of many middle and upper-class women. Her decision to use her power as chairwoman of her charity to dismiss Daisy Renton illustrates how many middle and upper-class people viewed the poor as undeserving of help. Mrs Belling's character is condemned, she's criticised by Precy for the part she plays in upholding society's unfair capitalist system. What have I done in my introduction? I've summarised hey this is what I'm going to be talking about in the paragraphs to come. Number two, she is answering the question directly why she's important because she's highlighting the hypocrisy of a lot of upper and upper middle-class women at the time. She's highlighting also how Precy is trying to condemn these types of characters okay. So this is also author intent and playwright intent because he obviously wrote this play so I'm hinting at that as well within my introduction. So I'm starting off really really strong. I hopefully have the examiner on my side. They're thinking okay she understands what she's talking about. So here's my first people paragraph and as I mentioned guys within your first paragraph try your best to use the quotation you're given. When I'm structuring my responses I tend to just use a simple straightforward peel paragraph starting off with my point then my evidence, my quote, all quotes, my explanation. This is where the context would go in before I finish off with the link back to the question okay. So here's my first peel paragraph using this framework. Firstly, Mrs Belling is presented as being bigoted and prejudiced when you're bigoted you're closed-minded and prejudiced when she dismisses Daisy Renton's suicide. As you can see also as I'm answering these questions I'm using ambitious language. This is an English exam so you are showing off also your mastery of the English language okay. She seems aloof as she hints that Daisy somehow deserved her death as she tries to create doubt about her integrity. So aloof means she's arrogant and Mrs Belling is saying oh actually is Daisy Renton actually a good person? She's questioning the integrity of her character that's what I'm trying to say okay. So this is my opening point how is Mrs Belling presented and why she's significant. Here's my evidence. Mrs Belling is very dismissive when she calls Daisy a girl. Worse still she categorizes her as girls of that class hinting that all working class women have similar attitudes and behaviors. I have used the quotations directly from here. I've mentioned her reference to Daisy a full grown woman as a girl and equally I've quoted girls of that class I'm showing that I'm answering the question directly and using the quotation I've been given to start with. She's significant in illustrating how many middle and upper class women viewed working class women. Contextually now I'm using sign posting language I'm saying hey I'm talking about context now. Many upper class people in the Edwardian era saw the poor as the undeserving poor. They were immoral and they did something to deserve their terrible fates. Mrs Belling reflects this when she coldly shrugs off Daisy's death. As you can see here in my explanation after I've added my quotation I've now gone into detail how does Mrs Belling symbolize and illustrate the prevailing attitudes that many upper class and middle upper class women had at the time. Now here's my link. Thus her character significant in illustrating the narrow minded views many upper class people held about poor women. They saw them as immoral and deserving of their fate. I'll link it back to the question. I'll also link it back to the original point I'd made in my opening Peel Paragraph. And of course I make sure I talk about I'm keeping it consistent in terms of saying why she important and what does it show us about her character. That's my opening Peel Paragraph. Here's my second Peel Point. Moreover Mrs Belling is important as a character as previously used her to highlight the hypocrisy of many wealthy women. Even if she had set up a charity to seemingly help working class women we learn her outward appearance of kindness is a facade as she rejected Daisy who sought assistance. Facade is just a fake false appearance. That's my opening point. Here's my evidence. As you can see guys I use a Peel Paragraph structure point evidence explanation link because it's actually quite simple and straightforward. Just because it's simple doesn't mean you're writing four sentences. You're layering in complex points okay. You can do that with a Peel Paragraph. So here's my evidence. At first she asserts we've done a great deal ellipsis helping deserving cases yet she later admits she didn't like her manner. She'd impertently made use of the Belling name. So here I've added two bits of evidence where she's basically showing off about her charity but also saying oh but also I refuse Daisy because she impertently made use of the Belling name. Now here's my explanation. Mrs Belling stockly reflects the class divisions that existed in the Edwardian society. Despite knowing how challenging life was for working class women she used her influence to deny charitable aid to Daisy as Daisy had called herself a Belling. We can see Mrs Belling was more loyal to her class than her gender as she wanted to distance herself from Daisy a working class woman to protect her family's reputation. That's my evidence. This is now me going into detail and analyzing what we this is telling us about Mrs Belling's character but I also mentioned context and Edwardian era and Edwardian society. Here's my link. Hence she shows how many upper class people strove tried to distance themselves from working class people who they perceived as unequal. That's my link back to the question and how this illustrates Mrs Belling. Here's my third peel point. Additionally Mrs Belling is crucial in the play as she highlights how rigid the older generation were. Her resistance in accepting the part she played in Daisy's death reveals how the older generation upheld the unequal capitalist society at the time. Again that's my opening point. As you can see also hopefully I'm mixing up my points right so I started off by talking about how she's quite narrow minded or rather prejudice when she's thinking about people like Daisy. She's saying oh they're all immoral. Then I'll go into detail as to how she's a hypocrite with her charity. Now this is a separate point. Try to make sure when you're developing your character points to make them different and distinct. Here's my evidence. Mrs Belling is delighted when Gerald cleverly proves that Inspector does not exist. She also angrily accuses Eric and Sheila of wanting to help him instead of us when they expressed guilt over how they treated Eva and Daisy. Again I've used two bits of quotations cleverly but also when she says wanting to help him instead of us. That's my evidence. Here's my explanation. Evidently Mrs Belling's character is used by Prissy to reveal how the older generation was far more bigoted and resistant to change. As a socialist Prissy was critical of the capitalist system at the time which disempowered and marginalised working class people. Disempowered means removed took away their power. Marginalised means like treated them as outsiders as second-class citizens. Mrs Belling's refusal to accept any responsibility highlights how many older people benefited from the capitalist system and they were reluctant to see it change. Again here in my explanation I've added context in terms of how Prissy as a socialist is criticising capitalism and he's doing so through Mrs Belling's character. Now here's my link. Consequently her character highlights the rigid attitudes of the older generation. They were reluctant to see any change so here of course the point that I'm making generally is Mrs Belling illustrates the old generation and how they were probably least likely to inspire any change in society. Now here's my final pill paragraph before I move on to my conclusion. Finally Mrs Belling is significant as she reveals the powerless position women were placed in at the time of the play. Even if she was Mr Belling's social superior as a woman she had few rights and she still needed the protection of a marriage to survive. So what I've done here in my opening point I have embedded just one quotation from the play this is the opening sage directions only to reinforce the idea that Mrs Belling was a higher class and a higher status that Mr Belling when she first married him. However that's my fourth point to talk about how she still shows that women were quite powerless during this time. Here's my evidence. From the opening of the play we learned that she was her husband's social superior. Yet she was defined by her marriage as she asserted a Mrs Belling you know. Again here I've added stage directions in my quotation and also when she says a Mrs Belling. Here's my explanation. Although Mrs Belling was financially comfortable it's clear that she married Mr Belling to ensure her financial stability as a woman. Set in 1912 this is my context. The play depicts a patriarchal society where even women like Mrs Belling had few rights patriarchal means a society that's controlled by men. Indeed women only gained the vote in 1918 six years after the year the play is set. Mrs Belling is used to show how women still needed men and the protection of a marriage to survive. Again here I've added more context and talked about how Mrs Belling still showing the powerlessness women had during this time. Here's my link. As a result even if Mrs Belling enjoys a privileged position in society she still relies on her husband for stability. She still shows the powerlessness of women at this time. That's my link back to the question. Now finish off with my conclusion. In conclusion Mrs Belling is used as a pivotal character. I'm reinforcing this idea that she's significant. She's pivotal. I'm using synonyms to say so. In the play as she highlights the prejudice views many middle class and upper class people held about the poor. Her cruel treatment of Daisy illustrates her hypocrisy and we can see many wealthy women at the time were more loyal to the class than their gender. Her rigid refusal to change reveals how many people in the older generation were complicit. They were part of they participated in upholding the unfair capitalist system. That's my conclusion and as I mentioned guys I have gone with the four paragraph framework where I started off with my introduction then moved on to my four points leading with this key quotation from the question. Remember try to do to use this quotation from the start so that you don't get carried away and forget to use it. Then I finished off with my conclusion. So I started with my intro first four paragraphs. First paragraph quote then other third paragraphs quotes related to elsewhere then conclusion. That's really it when it comes to how to answer this question and especially section B of the English literature paper one exams.