Inspiring ways of teaching drama

Doing the Right Thing - introduction to key moral issues in An Inspector Calls

This is a multiple choice activity to get you thinking about the moral choices we all have and whether there is a right and a wrong way to act.

·   Alone, circle the action you would take in each of these situations. Then talk in a

small group about the following:

-   is there is a right or a wrong thing to do in each situation?

-   are there situations where it would be difficult for you to do the right thing?

·   When you have finished your discussion, feedback as a whole class on the issue of whether or not people in a community have any responsibility for each other.

1.  You see two primary aged children shoving another child against the wall. A fight

is obviously going to begin. Do you:

a)   Ignore them because you don't know what has been going on

b)   Go up to them and try to stop the fight before it starts

c)   Tell an adult that you think a young child is about to get beaten up

2.  Someone who doesn't speak English gets on the bus and tries to ask the bus driver if the bus goes to the hospital. The bus driver is impatient and can't be bothered to make the effort to understand. Do you:

a)   Push past the person, show your pass and get on

b)   Tell the bus driver that the person wants the hospital

c)   Speak to the person and reassure them that this is the right bus for the hospital

3.  An old person falls down in the street. Do you:

a)   Pass by because you are in a hurry

b)   Rush to help them

c)   Slow down so that someone else will help them first

4.  There is a bottle bank near where you live but no one in your family uses it. Do you:

a)   Think nothing of it because one family’s bottles won't make any difference

b)   Put a box in the kitchen and tell everyone to put the empty bottles in it

c)   Tell your family that you'll take bottles to the bank each week in return for not doing the washing up

5.  A beggar asks you for money outside the station. Do you:

a)   Ignore them because you disapprove of begging

b)   Apologise for having no change

c)   Pass by because you are in a hurry

d) give them money

6.  Your class is involved in raising money for a charity. Some class members openly

take some of the money for themselves. Do you:

a)   Do nothing

b)   Try to persuade them to put it back

c)   Tell an adult in the hope that it will be dealt with by them