Ozymandias - Cambridge Songs of Ourselves

This is full lesson plan, with resources, covering Shelley’s Poem : Ozymandias. This poem is part of the 2023/2025 Cambridge Songs of Ourselves English IGCSE Literature program.

This is a full ‘no frills’ lesson -with scope to cover one or two lessons if required - The lesson is provided in Word document with a classroom PowerPoint, both of which are editable, if required. Simply set out with **lots **of in depth detail - you can fully edit to use as much or as little as you require.

This lesson is easy to follow and could therefore be used as a ‘last minute’ lesson, or even a ‘cover lesson’ - if required - as the all of the information and answers tasks is included - all you need to do is print it.

Contents -

Teacher’s notes, student tasks and task handouts - the teacher notes are in word, and have also been added as a PowerPoint presentation to support either a chalk and talk or read and make notes approach.

The lesson contains the following:
A one page easy to follow lesson plan
A comprehensive set of teacher support notes that provide answers and information to the questions set. This information is on a word document and and PowerPoint to share with students.
Student tasks - discussion, practical (identify key poetic skills used) Q&A.
End of lesson short paragraph writing task.
Basic PEEZER essay writing support

Please check out my other Songs and Stories lessons - similar easy to use format, with comprehensive analysis.

This lesson is also set as the ‘first poetry analysis’ lesson for GCSE, as it contains an introduction to PEEZER paragraph writing for exam type questions. You can skip these if they are not required.