Grade 9 Ozymandias Lesson Power and Conflict AQA

This lesson covers key content for the poem, three carefuly chosen quotes for students to independently analyse as well as prepared notes, extensive analysis and exploration of context, example comparative points to another poem from the anthology, as well as a writing frame to support all students and make the comparison paragraphs easy work.

This lesson works well as the first in a sequence, so I have also laid out the exam structure and total list of poems students will study.

Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work through target codes.

Quotes include:
“I met a traveller from an antique land”
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
“frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command”
“y name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

Works towards:
How does Shelley present the power of humans in Ozymandias?