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KS3 · Year 8 - Development · Term 2 - Power and Protest · Week 9
Pages: Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias" (1818)
Romantic-era sonnet on a ruined statue of Pharaoh Ramesses II. Mocks the arrogance of tyrants and the impermanence of power.
Lesson 1
What students do
Read sonnet; identify three voices.
Task
Map frame: poet → traveller → statue inscription.
Success criteria
Diagram shows three layered narrators.
Lesson 2
What students do
Discuss: why hide Ozymandias behind two narrators?
Task
Pair-talk - what does distance do to his authority?
Success criteria
Frame undermines his claim to power.
Lesson 3
What students do
Model: "Shelley uses irony to suggest…".
Task
Analyse "Look on my Works… and despair!" vs the wreckage.
Success criteria
Gap between claim and reality explained as irony.
Lesson 4
What students do
Compare Shelley's and Blake's view of power.
Task
Bullet 2 similarities and one difference.
Success criteria
"Both poets…" used at least once.
Lesson 5
What students do
Recap analytical paragraph criteria.
Task
How does Shelley present the fragility of power?
Success criteria
Embedded quote + irony explained + sentence stem.
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