1. WALT: engage with key ideas in poetry from the AQA anthology Task (10 minutes) Read ‘On a Portrait of a Deaf Man’. Highlight all of the lines which describe old, happy memories In a different colour, highlight all of the gruesome images of a decomposing body Why do you think the poet wants us to see this contrast? Task (10 minutes) Read ‘On a Portrait of a Deaf Man’. Highlight all of the lines which describe old, happy memories In a different colour, highlight all of the gruesome images of a decomposing body Why do you think the poet wants us to see this contrast?

2. WALT: engage with key ideas in poetry from the AQA anthology Task (10 minutes) What attitude does the poet have towards death and religion? Task (10 minutes) What attitude does the poet have towards death and religion? You, God, who treat him thus and thus, Say ‘Save his soul and pray.’ You ask me to believe You and I only see decay. Extension Specifically, which words or phrases show this attitude? Extension Specifically, which words or phrases show this attitude?

3. WALT: engage with key ideas in poetry from the AQA anthology Task (5 minutes) Find three similarities between the final lines of ‘Ozymandias’ and ‘On a Portrait of a Deaf Man’. Task (5 minutes) Find three similarities between the final lines of ‘Ozymandias’ and ‘On a Portrait of a Deaf Man’. You, God, who treat him thus and thus, Say ‘Save his soul and pray.’ You ask me to believe You and I only see decay. ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.

4. WALT: engage with key ideas in poetry from the AQA anthology You, God, who treat him thus and thus, Say ‘Save his soul and pray.’ You ask me to believe You and I only see decay. ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. Task (10 minutes) Compare how the final lines of these poems show the poets’ attitudes to death and God(s). Task (10 minutes) Compare how the final lines of these poems show the poets’ attitudes to death and God(s).

5. WALT: engage with key ideas in poetry from the AQA anthology Task (10 minutes) What have each of these examples done well? How could they be improved? Task (10 minutes) What have each of these examples done well? How could they be improved? Example 1 Both talk to God and sound like they don’t like him. They both talk about decay which tells us they think when you die you rot away, which is disgusting. They are both obsessed with death. Example 1 Both talk to God and sound like they don’t like him. They both talk about decay which tells us they think when you die you rot away, which is disgusting. They are both obsessed with death. Example 2 In ‘Ozymandias’, the poet shows how everything falls into ‘decay’ eventually, even things which were once-great, like the monument of Ozymandias. ‘On a Portrait of a Dead Man’ uses ‘decay’ as the final word of the poem to reinforce the gruesome reality of death. Example 2 In ‘Ozymandias’, the poet shows how everything falls into ‘decay’ eventually, even things which were once-great, like the monument of Ozymandias. ‘On a Portrait of a Dead Man’ uses ‘decay’ as the final word of the poem to reinforce the gruesome reality of death.

6. WALT: engage with key ideas in poetry from the AQA anthology Task (10 minutes) Improve your own answer using these model answers to help you. Task (10 minutes) Improve your own answer using these model answers to help you. Example 1 Both talk to God and sound like they don’t like him. They both talk about decay which tells us they think when you die you rot away, which is disgusting. They are both obsessed with death. Example 1 Both talk to God and sound like they don’t like him. They both talk about decay which tells us they think when you die you rot away, which is disgusting. They are both obsessed with death. Example 2 In ‘Ozymandias’, the poet shows how everything falls into ‘decay’ eventually, even things which were once-great, like the monument of Ozymandias. ‘On a Portrait of a Dead Man’ uses ‘decay’ as the final word of the poem to reinforce the gruesome reality of death. Example 2 In ‘Ozymandias’, the poet shows how everything falls into ‘decay’ eventually, even things which were once-great, like the monument of Ozymandias. ‘On a Portrait of a Dead Man’ uses ‘decay’ as the final word of the poem to reinforce the gruesome reality of death.